Michelle Baker

Energetic and experienced employment lawyer and business executive with outstanding verbal and written communication skills, management skills, strong ethics, and keen business aptitude. Demonstrates the unique combination of high-level vision, creativity and operational experience required to develop as well as to implement strategic plans for growth and case management while effectively assessing and managing risk. High level of skill and experience in the following areas: • Establishing highly productive work environments by identifying, recruiting and hiring capable staff and aligning cross-functional teams. • Specific experience with employment and business litigation, including commercial collection work and contract review, negotiation and drafting of NDAs, employment contracts, license agreements, service contracts, etc. • Efficiently managed and addressed a broad range of legal issues, including: disability discrimination, wage and hour violations, pregnancy discrimination, retaliation in violation of public policy, age and race discrimination, and workplace violence issues. • Providing strategic and specific advice concerning human resource management, risk analysis and assessment. • Successfully balancing a client’s needs with legal implications and external influences. Core strengths include, but are not limited to: • Competent and effective leader. • Consistently driving for success. • Ability to present convincingly to a wide-range of audiences. • Labor and employment law. • Program management skills. • Efficient use of existing manpower, maximizing opportunities and making difficult decisions to protect the client’s best interest.