Sonni Nolan

Career

As a former corporate attorney for a Fortune 100 company with extensive litigation experience, Sonni is uniquely qualified to provide clients with practical, creative and sound legal advice compatible with today’s business environment.

She advises companies on general business strategy and commercial litigation and class action defense, as well as employment discrimination matters before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), related state agencies and before state and federal courts. In addition, she represents employers regarding numerous regulatory issues, wage and hour laws, restrictive covenant agreements, reductions in force, and public policy discharge matters. In both trial and in alternative dispute resolutions, Sonni has achieved significant favorable outcomes.

Sonni’s experience also extends to representing employers in collective bargaining, arbitrations, union avoidance techniques, corporate campaigns, positive employee relations training and matters before the National Labor Relations Board.

Before joining the firm, Sonni was associate general counsel for Express Scripts Inc. in St. Louis. She was responsible for daily legal advice in all areas of labor and employment law, proactive strategy and training, compliance, litigation strategy, handling of EEOC matters, development of human resources policies and audit tools, budget management, selection, and oversight of outside law firms. Previously, she worked as employee relations counsel for Smurfit-Stone Container Corp. (now RockTenn) in St. Louis, where she provided litigation support and labor and employment counseling for 26 manufacturing facilities across the United States, including conducting all collective bargaining and defending EEOC matters.

Sonni is a member of the firm’s Executive Board.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Manufacturers

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis

Society for Human Resource Management