DenaMoghtader
Associate
Labor & Employment
dmoghtader@seyfarth.com
Dena delivers strategic legal guidance, strong litigation defense, and trusted insight to help employers stay compliant, resolve disputes, and build thriving workplaces.
More About Dena
Dena develops legal strategies and solutions to help clients avoid litigation, but also prepares robust defenses when litigation is unavoidable. She helps clients maintain compliance and mitigate risk, ensuring her clients are fully informed of all available legal options.
With extensive experience, Dena represents employers in ADA, EEOC, Title VII, and Title IX matters, and offers clients insightful legal counsel and strategic solutions. She is skilled in conducting internal investigations, particularly in potentially high-visibility situations, ensuring thorough and discreet processing of sensitive issues and allegations.
Dena works with clients to create positive, lasting workplace cultures where both businesses and their employees can succeed together.
With extensive experience, Dena represents employers in ADA, EEOC, Title VII, and Title IX matters, and offers clients insightful legal counsel and strategic solutions. She is skilled in conducting internal investigations, particularly in potentially high-visibility situations, ensuring thorough and discreet processing of sensitive issues and allegations.
Dena works with clients to create positive, lasting workplace cultures where both businesses and their employees can succeed together.
- JD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Certificate in Trial Advocacy - BS, University of Houston Honors College
- Illinois
- Texas
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US District Court, District of North Dakota
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Northern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- US District Court, Western District of Texas
Related Services
Related News & Insights
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Blog Post
Mar 2, 2026
No Employer Knowledge, No Overtime: Fifth Circuit Affirms Defense Verdict Where Employee Must Prove Employer Knew of Overtime.
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Webinar
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Seyfarth and ACC Houston Webinar: Evolving Employer Obligations: “Lightning Round” Update for Corporate Counsel - Understanding the impact of new Texas legislation and evolving federal workplace laws
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Blog Post
Jun 25, 2025
Watch the Clock: Fifth Circuit Rules that a Six-Month Delay Can Support a Failure to Accommodate Claim
- Listed in Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters) for Labor and Employment (2025)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, mentor
Dena delivers strategic legal guidance, strong litigation defense, and trusted insight to help employers stay compliant, resolve disputes, and build thriving workplaces.
More About Dena
Dena develops legal strategies and solutions to help clients avoid litigation, but also prepares robust defenses when litigation is unavoidable. She helps clients maintain compliance and mitigate risk, ensuring her clients are fully informed of all available legal options.
With extensive experience, Dena represents employers in ADA, EEOC, Title VII, and Title IX matters, and offers clients insightful legal counsel and strategic solutions. She is skilled in conducting internal investigations, particularly in potentially high-visibility situations, ensuring thorough and discreet processing of sensitive issues and allegations.
Dena works with clients to create positive, lasting workplace cultures where both businesses and their employees can succeed together.
With extensive experience, Dena represents employers in ADA, EEOC, Title VII, and Title IX matters, and offers clients insightful legal counsel and strategic solutions. She is skilled in conducting internal investigations, particularly in potentially high-visibility situations, ensuring thorough and discreet processing of sensitive issues and allegations.
Dena works with clients to create positive, lasting workplace cultures where both businesses and their employees can succeed together.
- JD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Certificate in Trial Advocacy - BS, University of Houston Honors College
- Illinois
- Texas
- US Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
- US District Court, District of North Dakota
- US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- US District Court, Northern District of Texas
- US District Court, Southern District of Texas
- US District Court, Western District of Texas
Related Services
Related News & Insights
-
Blog Post
Mar 2, 2026
No Employer Knowledge, No Overtime: Fifth Circuit Affirms Defense Verdict Where Employee Must Prove Employer Knew of Overtime.
-
Webinar
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Seyfarth and ACC Houston Webinar: Evolving Employer Obligations: “Lightning Round” Update for Corporate Counsel - Understanding the impact of new Texas legislation and evolving federal workplace laws
-
Blog Post
Jun 25, 2025
Watch the Clock: Fifth Circuit Rules that a Six-Month Delay Can Support a Failure to Accommodate Claim
- Listed in Super Lawyers Rising Stars (Thomson Reuters) for Labor and Employment (2025)
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, mentor