Biography

Brigitte Duffy is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department at Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Her practice focuses on representing management in employment-related litigation with a particular emphasis on handling wage and hour litigation, and in providing workplace advice and counseling. Ms. Duffy has represented a number of businesses, including hotels, restaurants, limousine companies, and airlines in litigation arising out of their practices in handling the distribution of tips, service charges, and other charges, and in taking the tip credit against minimum wage. In addition, she routinely litigates employment matters before the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and in state and federal courts. She has trial experience defending employers and individual managers against claims brought under common law and federal and state anti-discrimination laws. Ms. Duffy also has substantial experience briefing and arguing dispositive motions, taking and defending depositions, and advocating client positions at administrative hearings, court conferences, and mediation sessions.

Ms. Duffy has extensive experience counseling employers on compliance with state and federal laws on such issues as wage and hour, discrimination, and leave laws. She conducts wage and hour audits and provides training to employers on compliance with wage and hour laws. She routinely advises companies on reductions in force, conducting internal investigations, and background checks. She drafts employment contracts, separation agreements, and confidentiality and non-competition agreements.

Ms. Duffy regularly speaks at professional conferences on such issues as wage and hour law compliance, independent contractor status, discrimination laws and other employment law issues.

Education

J.D., Suffolk University Law School

B.A., Harvard University

Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New York

Courts

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the First and Second Circuits
• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York