Kathryn S. Piscitelli - Tampa, FL

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Duquesne University School of Law, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1983
    J.D.

• Non Legal Education

  • Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1975
    B.S.Ed.
    Major: History
  • University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1977
    M.A.
    Major: History

Past Positions

• Harris & Helwig, P.A., Attorney, 2008 - 2013
• Egan. Lev & Siwica, P.A., Attorney, 1998 - 2008
• CCH , Principal Analyst, HR Product Team, 1994 - 1997
• CCH , Product Group Leader, Employment Law, 1994
• CCH , Manager, Civil Rights Law, 1993 - 1994
• CCH , Assistant Manager, Labor Law, 1991 - 1993
• CCH , Editorial Coordinator, Labor Law, 1990 - 1991
• CCH , Law Editor, Labor Law, 1983 - 1990

Classes and Seminars

• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and State Military Leave Laws, Florida Bar 26th Labor and Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, Tampa, Fla., 2026
  
• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and State Military Leave Laws, Florida Bar 25th Labor and Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, 2025
  
• USERRA, Florida NELA 2025 Annual Conference, 2025
  
• Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and State Military Leave Laws,” presented at Florida Bar 24th Labor and Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, Florida Bar, January 26, 2024
  
• Muldrow: “Some Harm” Standard, Florida Bar, 2024
  
• “USERRA,” presented at Florida Bar 23rd Labor and Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, Orlando, Fla., Florida Bar, January 20, 2023
  
• USERRA, presented at Florida Bar 22nd Labor & Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, Florida Bar, January 28, 2022
  
• Veterans Preference, Update on USERRA, and State Military Leave Statutes, Florida Bar, November 17, 2021
  
• USERRA, Presented at Florida Bar 21st Labor & Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, January 14, 2021
  
• Understanding the Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act, Co-presented at NELA-Alabama webinar, June 2, 2021
  
• Representing Our Nation’s Heroes, Co-presented at NELA 2019 Annual Convention, June 29, 2019
  
• USERRA Boot Camp: Overview of Veterans’ and Citizen-Soldiers’ Job Rights Under USERRA, Presented at Florida Labor-Management Conference, August 13, 2018
  
• USERRA, presented at Florida Bar 19th Labor & Employment Law Annual Update and Certification Review, November 17, 2019
  
• Employment Law Issues for Veterans in the Workforce, Co-presented at ABA 10th Annual Section of Labor and Employment Law Conference, November 12, 2016
  
• Advocating For Servicemembers & Veterans: Recent Developments In The Law, Co-presented at NELA 2015 Annual Convention, June 25, 2015
  
• Litigating USERRA Claims, Co-presented at Eleventh Circuit Joint NELA Conference, March 21, 2014
  
• Litigating Veterans’ Employment and Reemployment Rights Cases, Presented at Florida Bar 40th Annual Public Employment Labor Relations Forum, September 24, 2014 - October 24, 2014
  
• Litigating Veterans’ Employment and Reemployment Rights Cases, Presented at Florida Bar 39th Annual Public Employment Labor Relations Forum, Orlando, Fla. 2013
  
• USERRA and Reemployment Rights: What Returning Military Personnel, Unions, and Employers Need to Know, Co-presented at 2013 ABA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Cal., August 8, 2013
  
• Protecting the Rights of Veterans and Servicemembers in the Workplace, Co-presented at NELA 2012 Convention, San Diego, Cal., June 21, 2012
  
• The Workplace in Wartime: USERRA Rights of Employee-Soldiers, Presented at Allegheny County Bar Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., November 10, 2011
  
• Representing Servicemembers and Their Families with Leave and Disability Claims,, Co-presented at NELA 2010 Fall Seminar, Oakland, Cal., October 16, 2010
  
• Litigating Claims Under USERRA, Co-presented at NELA 2010 Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2010
  
• Winds of Change: New Trends in Sexual Harassment Law at the Eleventh Circuit, Moderator, Florida NELA Webinar, May 26, 2010
  
• USERRA, Florida Bar 10th Annual Labor & Employment Law Certification Review Course, Orlando, Fla., February 26, 2010
  
• The Workplace in Wartime: Job Rights of Soldiers and Their Families, Fla. NELA Fall Conference, St. Petersburg, Fla., September 5, 2009
  
• Trying a USERRA Case, Co-presented at NELA 2008 Annual Convention, June 28, 2008
  
• Testimony regarding USERRA, hearing on “Protecting American Employees from Workplace Discrimination”, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee on Health, Education, Welfare and Pensions, U.S. House of Representatives, February 12, 2008
  
• Overview on USERRA Claims, American Association for Justice Winter Convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico, January 28, 2008
  
• Nuts & Bolts of USERRA Litigation, Fla. Bar Labor and Employment Law Section seminar, Plantation, Fla., September 8, 2006
  
• When Jack & Jill Come Home: Representing Veterans in the Workplace, co-presented at 2005 NELA Annual Convention, Philadelphia, Pa., June 24, 2005
  
• Veteran Reemployment Rights: What You Need to Know about USERRA, Co-presented at Orange County Bar Association seminar, Orlando, Fla., March 2, 2005
  
• Non- discrimination and Reemployment Rights of Service Members, Florida NELA conference, Cocoa Beach Hilton, Cocoa Beach, Fla., March 23, 2002
  
• Wage & Hour Survey and Its Dovetailing, Florida NELA conference, Daytona Beach, Fla., January 22, 1999

Representative Cases

• Service Employees Int'l Union, Local 16 v. Public Employees Relations Comm
  • Citation: 752 So. 2d 569
  • Court: Florida Supreme Court
  • Year: 2000
• Bass v. Board of County Commissioners, Orange County, Fla.
  • Citation: 256 F. 3d 1095
  • Court: 11th Circuit
  • Year: 2001
• Freytes-Torres v. City of Sanford, Fla.
  • Citation: 270 Fed.Appx. 885, 102 Fair Empl.Prac.Cas. (BNA) 1779
  • Court: 11th Circuit
  • Year: 2008
• Strauss v. Rent-A-Center, Inc.
  • Citation: 192 Fed.Appx. 821, 88 Empl. Prac. Dec. (CCH) 42,464
  • Court: 11th Circuit
  • Year: 2006
• Davis v. Crothall Services Group, Inc.
  • Citation: 961 F.Supp.2d 716
  • Court: W.D. Pa.
  • Year: 2013
• Weaver v. Madison City Bd. of Educ.
  • Citation: 947 F.Supp.2d 1308
  • Court: N.D. Ala.
  • Year: 2013
• Walker v. Jefferson Cty. Bd. of Educ.
  • Citation: 771 F.3d 748
  • Court: 11th Cir.
  • Year: 2014
• Coleman v. Lakeland Area Mass Transit Dist.
  • Citation: 2013 WL 2154817
  • Court: M.D. Fla.
  • Year: 2013
• Savage v. Federal Express Corp.
  • Citation: 856 F.3d 440
  • Court: 6th Circuit
  • Year: 2017
• Van Hoek v. McKesson Corp.
  • Citation: 2020 WL 533940
  • Court: M.D. Fla.
  • Year: 2020

Published Works

Articles

• The USERRA Manual, co-author with Edward Still, Thomson Reuters, 2025 (and all prior editions)
  
• USERRA 2010 Amendments Overrule 11th Circuit Decision on Successor Liability, The Checkoff (Fla. Bar Labor & Employment Section) (author), 2011
  
• Amendment Bars Application of Time Limits to USERRA Claims, The Checkoff (Fla. Bar Labor & Employment Section) (author), 2009
  
• Job Rights of Employees Who Serve in the Military, ATLA Emp. Rts. Sec. Newsl. (co-author), 2006
  
• CCH Labor Law Reports, author of “Reemployment Rights of Veterans” division of reporter, 1997
  
• Seminole Tribe of Florida v. Florida: Can State Employees Still Sue in Federal Court?, 47 Lab. L.J. 210, 1996
• 1996 Guide to Fair Employment Practices, CCH, 1996
• Veterans’ Employment Rights: Keeping in Step with USERRA’s Legion of Changes, 46 Lab. L.J. 387, 1995
• Sexual Harassment Manual for Managers and Supervisors (Co-Author), CCH, 1995
• What You Ought to Know About the ADA (editor), 1994
• New Law Sounds Reveille for Veterans’ Employment Rights, Lab. L. Rep. Insight (CCH) (author), 1994
• What You Ought to Know About Family and Medical Leave (editor), 1993
• Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 Law & Explanation (editor), 1993
• Civil Rights Act of 1991 Law & Explanation (Co-Author), CCH, 1991

Bar Admissions

• Florida, 1983
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Florida, 1984
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 1999
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2010
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Florida, 2014
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 2015
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2016

Specialties and Certifications

• Labor and Employment Law , Florida Bar, 2001

Other Affiliations

• National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
• Fla. Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
• Labor and Employment Law Section of the Florida Bar (Member)
• Labor and Employment Law Certification Committee of the Florida Bar, 2010 - 2016 (Member)
• USERRA Advisor to the National Employment Lawyers Association
• Legislative & Public Policy Committee of the National Employment Lawyers Association, 2010 - 2011 (USERRA Leader)
• Florida Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, 2009 - 2010 (Past Vice President)
• USERRA Task Force of the National Employment Lawyers Association, 2004 (Chair)
• Florida Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, January 1, 2023 - December 31, 2023 (Legislative Vice President)
• Middle District Representative, Florida NELA, - 2022 (Representative)
• Florida Bar Labor & Employment Law Grade Review Panel, - 2017 (Member)
• Florida Bar Labor and Employment Law Certification Committee, 2014 - 2015 (Chair)
• Florida Bar Labor and Employment Law Certification Committee, 2013 - 2014 (Vice Chair)
• American Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law and Litigation Sections (Member)
• Orange County Bar Association (Member)