Amy S. Glesius
216-245-4216
Amy S. Glesius has advocated for employees' rights since she entered the legal profession. She was one of the first fifty lawyers in Ohio to be certified as a Specialist in Labor and Employment Law by the Ohio State Bar Association.
For the past several years, she has been listed in Best Lawyers in America in the areas of Employment Law -Individuals and Litigation - Labor & Employment, and the firm she headed has been listed in Best Law Firms since its inception. The legal directory Martindale Hubbell has given Amy its highest rating, AVTM, describing her legal abilities and professionalism as "Preeminent".TM Martindale Hubbell assigns the AVTM certification mark only to those attorneys who have been ranked by their peers at the highest level of professional excellence. Amy has been elected to the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation, which is limited to one third of one percent of lawyers licensed to practice in Ohio, and has repeatedly been named to the SuperLawyers and SuperLawyers Rising StarTM list in the area of Labor and Employment Law, most recently for 2012.
Areas of Practice
- Employees Rights
- Civil Rights
- Age Discrimination
- Disability & Illness Discrimination
- Gay & Lesbian Rights
- National Origin Discrimination
- Race Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination
- Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee
- Employee Rights -- Employee
- Employment Contracts -- Employee
- Employment Discrimination -- Employee
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee
- Municipal Employment -- Employee
- Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee
- Wrongful Termination -- Employee
- Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings
- Unfair Labor Practices
- Wage & Hour Laws
- Labor Arbitration
- Employment Law -- Employee
- Sex Discrimination
Certified Legal Specialties
- Labor and Employment Law, Ohio State Bar Association
Bar Admissions
- Ohio, 1996
- U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1997
- U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 2003
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1998
- U.S. Supreme Court, 2002
Education
- Case Western Reserve University Law School, Cleveland, Ohio
- J.D. - 1996
- Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
- B.Phil - 1993
- Major: Interdisciplinary Studies
Classes/Seminars
- Presenter, National Business Institute
- Presenter, PESI
- Presenter, Benesch Friedlander
- Presenter, Littler Mendelson LLP
- Presenter, Cleveland Teachers Union
- Presenter, Cleveland Employment Lawyers Association
- Presenter, Ohio Employment Lawyers Association
- Presenter, Federal Bar Association
- Presenter, Cleveland and Cincinnati District Offices of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
- Presenter, Cleveland Marshall College of Law
- Presenter, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Presenter, Akron University School of Law
- Presenter, Miami University's School of Interdisciplinary Studies
- Presenter, Ohio State Bar Association
Honors and Awards
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation, 2008 - Present
- Best Lawyers in America
- AV Preeminent
- Superlawyers Rising Star
- Superlawyers
Professional Associations and Memberships
- Cleveland Employment Inn of Court, Founding Member, Counselor, Master of the Bench, 2005 - Present
- National Employment Lawyers Association, 1998 - Present
- Ohio Employment Lawyers Association, Member, Board of Trustees, 2007 - Present
- Cleveland Employment Lawyers Association, 1997 - Present
- Ohio State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, Board of Governors, 2006 - 2009
- Human Rights Campaign
- NARAL Pro-Choice Ohio
- Gates Mills Animal Welfare Committee
Pro Bono Activities
- Mediator, U.S. EEOC, 2008 - Present
Languages
- English
