Florio, Jill O.

Category: Business

Review: Fax:(304) 624-8183 Jill.Florio@Steptoe-Johnson.com

Description: Jill Florio focuses her practice in the area of labor and employment law. She has represented employers with respect to discrimination as well as a variety of issues including retaliatory discharge, sexual harassment, and other employment-related torts.

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Assisted corporate clients with transfer of cases from litigation process into mediation/arbitration process in both union and non-union settings
Provided diversity and harassment training for both management and non-management employees, including higher education employees, as a preventive measure, as well as post-investigatory
Received summary judgment on behalf of corporate employers in fraud, worker’s compensation discrimination and retaliatory discharge cases
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION

Employment law
Employee matters
Retaliation claims
Discrimination
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1994 Steptoe & Johnson
1990-93 Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

Board of Directors, United Summit Center
Liaison Committee, United Health Foundation
Harrison County Catholic Schools Mission Advancement Committee
Past Board Member & Vice Chair, United Health Foundation
AWARDS / HONORS

West Virginia Law Review
Order of the Coif
Recipient, Patrick Duffy Koontz Award
PUBLICATIONS

Steptoe & Johnson Labor Institute
West Virginia Employment Law Letter
West Virginia Health Care Association
West Virginia Credit Union League