Perspectiva General

Shannon K. Patton has spent her entire career as a management-side labor and employment attorney, with an emphasis on employment litigation, wage and hour issues and corporate counseling. She has successfully represented clients before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, arbitration proceedings and mediations. She has handled a variety of employment-related cases, including class and collective action wage and hour matters and claims involving age, gender, race, religion, and disability discrimination, retaliation, and harassment. She also regularly counsels clients with respect to an array of employment issues, including:

  • Wage and hour issues
  • Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) obligations
  • Reductions-in-force
  • Employee discipline/termination
  • Discrimination and harassment issues
  • Internal investigations
  • Contract negotiations
  • Employee relations issues
  • Policies and handbooks
  • Pandemic and post-pandemic employment issues

Additionally, Shannon counsels corporations in virtually every line of business including:

  • Corporate
  • Education
  • Manufacturing
  • Real estate
  • Energy
  • Retail
  • Healthcare and home care
  • Hospitality
  • Service industry
  • Public sector
  • Nonprofits

In addition to private practice, Shannon has in-house corporate counsel experience. She served as senior labor and employment counsel at American Greetings, a Fortune 1000 company. This in-house experience gives Shannon a more practical and cost-sensitive perspective in advising clients.

Afiliaciones Profesionales y Comunitarias

Member

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Member

Ohio State Bar Association

Member

American Bar Association

Founding Member

Irish American Law Society of Cleveland

2013-present

Reconocimiento

Named, The Best Lawyers in America®

2018-2025

Ranked, Labor & Employment

Chambers USA

2022-2024

Named, Ohio Leading Lawyer

Ohio Business Magazine

2024

Named, Most Influential Labor & Employment Lawyers in Ohio

Business Today

2023

Libros & Capítulos

  • Wage and Hour Answer Book, Aspen Publishing, contributing author, 2009

Speaking Engagements

2024 Ohio Regional Employer Conference

Cleveland, OH

October 10, 2024

2023 Ohio Regional Employer Conference

Cleveland, OH

October 5, 2023

2022 Ohio Regional Employer Conference

Cleveland, OH

October 6, 2022

Kentucky Wage & Hour Update Live Training

Lexington, KY

March 16, 2022

Littler Home Care Webinar Series – November 2021 Legal Update

November 2, 2021

2021 Ohio Virtual Regional Employer Conference

October 14, 2021

The Legal Implications of the Wandering Worker

Cleveland, OH

July 23, 2021

The Next Normal: Getting Back to Business in Ohio

August 3, 2020

Educación

  • J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, 1998
  • B.A., Miami University, 1995Honors

Admisión de la barra

Ohio

Cortes

  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan