Susan Pangborn litigates employment disputes and counsels clients on a variety of employment-related issues. Ms. Pangborn has represented employers in class actions, as well as multi-plaintiff and single-plaintiff litigation. She has successfully defended discrimination and wage-hour claims under federal and state statutes in more than 100 cases before both administrative agencies and courts across the United States. She has won jury trials and numerous cases brought in federal and state courts on summary judgment. Ms. Pangborn also represents employers in arbitrations brought under both collective bargaining agreements and alternative dispute resolution provisions.
In addition, Ms. Pangborn provides practical guidance to employers on employment-related issues, including wage-hour compliance, discrimination issues arising under federal and state statutes, and strategies for handling employee complaints, performance issues, and terminations. She partners with clients to ensure they understand how changes in applicable state and federal laws affect their policies and practices. She has assisted clients in structuring and implementing reorganizations and force reductions affecting employees across several states, and in exploring cost-saving alternatives to reductions-in-force. Ms. Pangborn also assists clients in conducting effective workplace investigations of harassment complaints and provides appropriate follow-up training.
Ms. Pangborn also focuses her practice on executive agreements and the area of restrictive covenants. She regularly helps employers protect their investment in their people and intellectual property by ensuring that confidentiality, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements comply with applicable state laws. Similarly, she advises clients on the enforceability of such provisions and litigates issues arising from restrictive covenants.
Ms. Pangborn is listed in the 2014 and the three years immediately preceding editions of Chambers USA for Labor & Employment. She was named a Georgia "Super Lawyer" in the area of Employment Litigation: Defense in 2012, 2013 and 2014 by Super Lawyers magazine.
