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Elaine Maldonado

Elaine Maldonado

Featured Lawyer

Labor Law

304 Ave Ponce de Leon, Suite 990, San Juan, PR 00918

Ms. Maldonado is a Capital Partner and Managing Partner at Sepulvado, Maldonado & Couret. In addition, she heads the Labor, Employment, and Benefits practice group of the Firm. Having been practicing law since 1995, Ms. Maldonado has focused her legal career in the field of federal and state employment, labor, and employee benefits counseling and litigation. Specifically, she has centered her experience in matters arising under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. In addition, Ms. Maldonado has performed successfully in high-stakes multi-district litigation of environmental law and products liability litigation. Before joining Sepulvado, Maldonado & Couret, Ms. Maldonado was a Capital Partner at Puerto Rico’s largest law firm, McConnell Valdés. While at Mcconnel Valdés, she was the chair of the Welfare and ERISA litigation practice area and a Partner of the Labor and Employment Law practice group of said firm. She also served as a law clerk to Judges Pedro López-Oliver and Wilfredo Alicea-López at the Court of First Instance of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and as a student law clerk to Federal Judge Jaime Pieras, Jr., at the United States District Court for the District of Puerto Rico. Ms. Maldonado is regarded as one of the most effective and efficient employment attorneys in Puerto Rico. Her “no-nonsense” character builds her reputation and has allowed her to represent large-scale business and companies with high volume of employment and labor challenges. In addition to leading the employment, labor, and benefits practice group, Ms. Maldonado oversees the Firm’s human resources management. She is also in charge of the relationship with its clients and its daily operations.

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Elizabeth Kaleva

Labor Law

1821 South Ave W., Suite 501, Missoula, MT 59801

Elizabeth A. Kaleva was raised in Missoula, Montana. Elizabeth She received her Bachelor’s Degree in History from Boston College in 1991 and then went on to receive her J.D. from the University of Montana School of Law in 1995. Elizabeth is admitted to practice in all Montana courts, the United States District Courts, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Elizabeth serves as counsel for school districts in all areas of employment and school law. Her specific practice areas include: contract negotiations, employee misconduct and discipline, student misconduct and discipline, special education and federal programs, and Board of Trustees practice and procedure. In addition, she also provides litigation defense to school districts and their employees in federal and state courts, arbitrations, and administrative agencies relating to all aspects of school district operations

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Erica Sorosky

Labor Law

1900 Main Street, Suite 700, IRVINE, CA 92614

Erica M. Sorosky is a litigator whose practice consists of a wide range of business, employment and other civil litigation matters. Ms. Sorosky practices in both state and federal court. She handles all aspects of the litigation process, including pre-filing strategy and counseling, discovery, substantive pre-trial law and motion, mediation, arbitration, trial preparation and representation, post-judgment law and motion, and appellate work. Ms. Sorosky was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for 2013 – 2021, as published in Los Angeles Magazine and Super Lawyers Magazine. Los Angeles Magazine also named her as one of the Top Women Attorneys in Southern California for 2013 – 2021.

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Evan L. Goldman

Evan L. Goldman

Distinguished Lawyer

Labor Law

3 University Plaza Dr, 410, Hackensack, NJ 07601-6229

Area of Practice: Employment Law Civil Litigation attorney, Evan L. Goldman, Esq. has been practicing law since 1979. He received his undergraduate degree from Rutgers with High Distinction in Economics and his Law Degree from the University Maryland School of Law. Following Law school he clerked for the Hon. Marshall Selikoff, J.S.C. who at that time was both the Assignment Judge and Presiding Judge Civil in Monmouth County. For most of the past 40 years, he has represented both individuals and businesses in all areas of civil litigation. During the past 20 years he has narrowed his practice to representing individuals in Employment Matters and in other areas of civil Litigation in State and Federal Courts here in New Jersey. To date, he has tried to conclusion over 125 Jury Trials and has been involved in thousands more. He has lectured extensively in the area of Employment Law and Insurance Coverage Law and has also published both articles and Op Ed. articles in these legal areas. Currently he is President of the National Employment Lawyers Association of New Jersey, the New Jersey affiliate of the National Organization. Previously, he had been Co-Chair of the Employment Law Section of the New Jersey Association for Justice and a member of its Board of Governors. He is also a member of both the Middlesex County Bar Association and Bergen County Bar Association. Formerly he was also a Registered Player Agent for the National Basketball Association. Evan has also been retained as an expert in numerous legal malpractice cases.

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Frank Mamat

Labor Law

38505 Woodward Ave, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Frank T. Mamat is one of the nation’s preeminent labor law attorneys, and focuses his practice on complex labor issues, with a special focus on union matters, contract negotiations, unfair labor practice litigation, National Labor Relations Board practice, organizing attempts by unions, mass picketing and violence, secondary boycotts and pressure, and Federal and State OSHA matters. Clients come to Frank with their most pressing labor issues. Through the years he has successfully counseled clients on virtually every type of labor matter possible. In 2012 the Michigan Senate retained Frank to help prepare Michigan's "Right to Work" law. Frank is a sought after employment attorney in Detroit and around the country and regularly speaks to major trade groups, counsels clients in the construction industry and handles difficult employment, ERISA and OSHA litigation.

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