The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued its Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which goes some distance in creating potential liability for discrimination by employers for their carte blanche use of criminal record exclusions.

See our GT Alert — Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions: EEOC Issues Enforcement Guidance and Best Practices — for more information.

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Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion…

Nikki Lewis Simon, a commercial litigator with more than two decades of experience, primarily serves as Senior Vice President and the firm’s Chief Engagement, Culture, and Opportunity Officer. In this capacity, Nikki designs and guides strategic initiatives and programs to deepen firmwide inclusion efforts that further enrich client engagements and community investments.

Her role is indicative of, and integral to, Greenberg Traurig’s core values of collaboration and inclusion – principles that inform the firm’s operations and legal business in meaningful, positive ways.

Prior to assuming primary responsibilities on the business side of the firm, Nikki has represented her cross-industry clients’ business objectives by protecting their capital – human, intellectual, and financial – against claims of wrongdoing in complex commercial and class action litigation. Those matters have spanned the panoply of issues and claims businesses often face, from discrimination to wrongful death, defamation to fraud and misrepresentation, professional negligence and malpractice to breach of fiduciary duty and securities law violations.

Given her experience, Nikki is also an active member of Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice’s team of lawyers who concentrate in strategic employment counseling. The team provides pragmatic employment legal advice- both nationwide and jurisdiction specific— that address the client’s risk tolerance, cultural realities, operational bandwidth, and budget. Together, the team and client design and implement employment compliance programs as well as strategic advice and planning that help foster positive employee relations that also strengthen innovative operating guides and job-aides; industry tailored dynamic trainings to virtually every organizational level; employment compliance audits and employee engagement sessions.

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