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Margaret M. Sheahan - Stratford, CT
80 Ferry BoulevardSuite 216 Stratford, CT 06615
Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C.
Stratford Employment Law Lawyer
Overview
Ms. Sheahan provides legal advice and representation to both private and public sector employers and to individuals in all aspects of their workforce relationships. She gives counsel aimed at preventing the kinds of employer-employee conflicts that lead to litigation or support union organizing efforts...
Ms. Sheahan provides legal advice and representation to both private and public sector employers and to individuals in all aspects of their workforce relationships. She gives counsel aimed at preventing the kinds of employer-employee conflicts that lead to litigation or support union organizing efforts...
Ms. Sheahan provides legal advice and representation to both private and public sector employers and to individuals in all aspects of their workforce relationships. She gives counsel aimed at preventing the kinds of employer-employee conflicts that lead to litigation or support union organizing efforts. Her lodestar is to ensure that her business clients' employee relations policies and practices comply with all regulatory and other legal requirements, reflect the "best practices" of the employee relations field and give effect to the client's business goals. She has extensive experience in:
- Defending workplace discrimination claims before State and federal agencies and courts; Assisting employers in drafting affirmative action plans and defending them during OFCCP and State agency compliance and pre-award audits;
- Conducting investigations of internal complaints and assisting in interactive explorations of accommodation alternatives;
- Providing workforce-wide anti-harassment and other training as well as individualized managerial coaching on employee selection, evaluation and disciplinary procedures.
- Assisting employers to achieve and maintain compliance with federal and State compensation mandates by conducting internal audits of pay practices and exempt/non-exempt and employee/independent contractor designations as well as defending federal and State government-initiated audits, administrative charges and judicial claims;
- Helping employers manage federal and State Family & Medical Leave Act and other leave law obligations through defense of administrative and judicial claims and policy development, education and implementation;
- Working with employers to maintain an existing union-free status and resist union election campaign drives, to negotiate and implement collective bargaining contracts, to manage the grievance-arbitration process, to face union strike situations and to defend unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, the Connecticut State Board of Labor Relations and the courts.
- Guiding employers in protecting their investments in proprietary information and business development interests by devising, defending and prosecuting non-competition and confidentiality agreements.
Peg was a member of the board of the award-winning workforce development organization, The Workplace, Inc., from 2000-2023, and served on its Executive, Bylaws and Personnel Committees. She also served on the board of directors and Executive Committee of the Bridgeport Regional Business Council, and was twice honored as the BRBC's "Volunteer of the Year." She sits on the Advisory and Regional Boards of the Women's Business Development Council, an entrepreneurial educational organization. Ms. Sheahan also serves on the advisory board of Pacific House f/k/a the Stamford Shelter for the Homeless. She served on the Board of Trustees of the Stratford Library Association from 2013-2023.
About Margaret M. Sheahan
Practice Areas
- Employment Law
- Labor Law
- Litigation
- Trial Practice
Litigation
- 50%
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New York, 1980
- Connecticut, 1980
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1987
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1981
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York, 1981
- U.S. Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association
- Greater Bridgeport Bar Association
- Fairfield County Bar Association
- Labor & Employment Law Subject Editor of the Connecticut Bar Journal
- Connecticut Bar Association Labor and Employment Section’s Executive Committee
Classes and Seminars
- Glass Ceiling; Discrimination Today, Council Education in Management, 1995
- Discrimination Law Today: Is Everyone In A Protected Class?, Council on Education in Management, 1995
- Discrimination Laws You Face, Fairfield University, 1993 - 1995
- Substance Abuse in the Workplace: How Can The Employer Respond?, Fairfield University, 1993 - 1994
- AIDS In The Workplace, Fairfield University, 1993 - 1994
- Sexual Harassment Training Program, Stamford Hospital, 1993
- Sexual Harassment Training Program, Siemon Company, 1993
- Sexual Harassment In The Workplace, Westport Public Library, 1993
- Sexual Harassment In The Workplace, Stamford Hospital, 1994 - 1995
- Sexual Harassment In The Workplace, Robert Russo & Associates, 1995
- Substance Abuse In The Workplace, Middlesex Chamber of Commerce, 1994
- Current Employment Law Issues You Need To Know, National Human Resources Association, 1994
- Labor and Employment Issues, National Human Resources Association, 1994
- Employment Law: Managing The Human Resource Function, Savings and Community Bankers of America, 1994
- Employment Law: Managing The Human Resource Function, America's Community Bankers, 1995
- Implementing Federal and Connecticut Family and Medical Leave Act Laws, Greater Bridgeport Bar Association, 1995
- Law Of The Workplace: Is Change The Only Constant?, Greater Bridgeport Bar Association, 1996
- CBIA’s 3rd Annual Supervisors’ Conference
- Family Responsibility Discrimination: A New Look at Work/Life Balance
- Hours of Work and Payment of Wages
- Domestic Violence in the Workplace
- Margaret M. Sheahan Speaks On Employment Issues
- Managing Office Romances
- Connecticut Employment Law Update 2007
Past Positions
- Cummings & Lockwood, Associate, -
Education
- New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1980
J.D. - Fordham University, 1976
B.A.
Honors: magna cum laude
Articles
Published Works
- Workplace Notes, Fall, 2007
- Labor & Employment Alert, November, 2007
- New EEOC Form Reflects Racial Identity Trends
Office Information
Address
80 Ferry BoulevardSuite 216 Stratford, CT 06615
Phone
Fax
- (203) 873-0235
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Margaret M. Sheahan
Included on the 2023 Connecticut list
Past Lists
- 2022 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2006 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Peer Rated (profile)
- Selected for inclusion in the 2022 Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent Attorney - Judicial Edition
- Selected for inclusion in the 2013 edition of the Martindale-Hubbell® Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers™
- Recognized by Best Lawyers® since 2012
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Litigation-Labor and Employment, New Haven Metro Area, 2022
- Best Lawyers Lawyer of the Year, Employment Law-Individuals, New Haven Metro Area, 2016, 2018 and 2021
- Recognized by Super Lawyers® since 2006 (Super Lawyer profile)
- Top 25 Women Connecticut Super Lawyers 2018-2022 (Super Lawyer profile)
- United States Small Business Administration’s 2011 Connecticut’s Women in Business Champion of the Year. U.S. U.S. Small Business Administration.pdf
- “Top Lawyer” in Fairfield County in the practice of Labor and Employment Law and Civil Litigation by Moffly Media 2010-2013
- Listed in “the 200 Outstanding Lawyers in Fairfield County” in 2016 and 2017 by Moffly Media
- 2015 Woman of the Year by the Connecticut Labor & Employment Women
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