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Partner
Labor & Employment
Richmond
(804) 788-7232 Phone
(804) 788-8218 Fax
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Practice focuses on litigation of employment-related claims before state and federal courts and administrative agencies, representation of management in labor issues, and advice to management, human resources professionals and in-house counsel on all aspects of employer-employee relations. President of ProWorkplace, a division of Hunton & Williams, providing practical, interactive and customized workplace training to management, supervisory and non-supervisory employees.
Relevant Experience 
- Substantial litigation practice in areas including equal employment opportunity and employment discrimination, sexual harassment and other unlawful harassment, workplace torts, employment contracts and noncompete litigation, ERISA litigation, and wrongful discharge litigation.
- Labor practice includes significant experience in union organizational campaigns and representation elections, defense of unfair labor practice charges, NLRB trials, advice on labor-management relations and union avoidance, and collective bargaining negotiations.
- Trained thousands of managers and supervisors nationwide in risk management and effective employee relations related to sexual harassment, discrimination, hiring, discipline, discharge, performance management, reductions in force, managing a unionized workforce, and maintaining union-free status.
- Managed employment litigation throughout the United States for a Fortune 500 company.
- Represented a Fortune 500 company in successful resolution of a wage and hour class action suit.
- Successfully resolved Department of Labor and Immigration and Naturalization Service claims of numerous child labor and immigration violations against Fortune 500 company.
- Successfully prosecuted several unfair competition/noncompete agreement cases.
Background
- Law Clerk, Hon. Robert R. Merhige, Jr., U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, 1986–87
Membership
- Member, Virginia State Bar
- Member, Virginia Bar Association
- Member, Litigation and Labor and Employment Sections of Virginia Bar Association
- Member, Metropolitan Richmond Women’s Bar Association
- Member, Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference
Education - J.D., University of Richmond School of Law, magna cum laude, Editor-in-Chief, University of Richmond Law Review, 1986
- B.A., University of Virginia, with distinction, French & Foreign Affairs, 1980
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Marguerite (Rita) Ruby
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