Ellen Toth

Practice Areas

Employment Law, Arbitration and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Workplace Investigations and Organizational Assessments

Career

Ellen Toth resides in the Cleveland office where she defends employment discrimination lawsuits for clients in the private and public sector. Ellen also defends charges brought before the EEOC, the Ohio Civil Rights Commission and other state and federal agencies. She provides counseling and training on a wide variety of employment issues.

Prior to joining Ogletree, Ellen worked in-house as labor and employment counsel for a Kansas City-based international transportation company. There, she partnered with operations and human resource personnel to reduce legal spend and integrated legal strategies between various subsidiaries and a newly acquired business. Also, she was responsible for supervising outside counsel, managing internal investigations, handling administrative proceedings and providing training and litigation avoidance counseling to human resources and operations executives and managers.

Professional Memberships

Federal Bar Association, Northern District of Ohio Chapter – Board of Directors (2001 to present); Chapter President (2008-2009); Diversity Committee Chair

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – Pro Bono Mediator (2008 to present)

Cleveland Employment Inn of Court – Master of the Bench (2008 to present)

United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio – Advisory Committee, Appointed Member (2008-2010) and (2014-2017)

Judicial Conference of the Eighth Judicial District, Cuyahoga County, Ohio – Life Delegate (2005 to present)

Education