Shannon Patton

Practice Areas

Business Restructuring and M&A; Discrimination and Harassment; Home Health and Home Care; Leaves of Absence and Disability Accommodation; Litigation and Trials; Staffing, Independent Contractors and Contingent Workers; Wage and Hour; Whistleblowing and Retaliation

Career

Shannon Patton has spent her entire career as a management-side labor and employment attorney, with an emphasis on employment litigation; wage and hour issues; and corporate counseling. She has successfully represented clients before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, arbitration proceedings, and mediations. Patton has handled a variety of employment-related cases, including wage and hour matters and claims involving age, gender, race, religion, disability discrimination, retaliation, and employee harassment.

In addition to private practice, Patton has in-house corporate counsel experience. She served as senior labor and employment counsel at a Fortune 1000 company. This in-house experience gives her a more practical and cost-sensitive perspective in advising clients.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association; Cleveland Employment American Inn of Court; Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association; Irish American Law Society of Cleveland; Ohio State Bar Association

Publications

Wage and Hour Answer Book, Aspen Publishing, contributing author, 2009

Personal

J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law; B.A., Miami University, Honors