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Betsy Swift is a partner with Bricker & Eckler and chairs the employment and labor practice group. She has extensive experience in advising and counseling clients on issues ranging from equal employment opportunity and wrongful discharge to corporate reorganization and union organizational campaigns. Her practice also includes immigration issues and drafting employment policies, handbooks, employment agreements, and non-compete agreements.
Representative Experience
Represents insurers and mortgage company in successfully resolving/defending race discrimination actions involving individuals and /or fair housing agencies and allegations of discriminatory denial of insurance coverage or lending practices
Successfully defended employer in Ohio Civil Rights Commission self-initiated investigation regarding allegation of national origin discrimination in closure of stand-alone operation
Successfully represented numerous employers in union organizational campaigns
Served as employment counsel on all facets of consolidation of two acute care hospitals and development of new personnel policies, procedures and benefit packages
General counsel to numerous private and public employers on traditional labor and employment law issues, equal employment opportunity issues, and personnel policies and practices
Successfully argued case of first impression before the Ohio Supreme Court regarding amount of paid leave to which public employee is entitled for military leave
Represented specialty manufacturer through selection and implementation of mass layoff of 40% of its workforce without challenge by any terminated worker
Community and Professional Activities
Member, American, Ohio State and Columbus Bar Associations
Past member, Babe Zaharias Classic Development Committee
Women Lawyers of Franklin County
Lecturer, Ohio Hospital Association, Ohio Health Care Association, Ohio CLE Institute, Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association, the National Federation of Independent Business, Nationwide Insurance, Institute of Business Law, Council on Education and Management, Association of Ohio Philanthropic Homes for the Aged, The Ohio Manufacturers' Association
Awards and Recognitions
Listed in Best Lawyers in America (labor and employment law) 2005-2008
Super Lawyer, Ohio Super Lawyers 2008
Education
The Ohio State University College of Law (J.D., with honors); Chief Justice, Moot Court Governing Board; Recipient of Moot Court Best Oralist Award
Miami University (B.S).
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