Melissa Lardo Stewart Esq.
Partner at Outten & Golden LLP
Top Rated Family Law Attorney with 13 years of experience
685 Third Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10017
About Melissa Lardo Stewart Esq.
Education
- Fordham University School of Law, New York, New York, 2009J.D.
- Honors: <i>magna cum laude</i>
- Honors: Selected for the AFL-CIO's Law Student Union Summer program, and Worked for the Communications Workers of America and Make the Road New York
- University of Pennsylvania, 2006B.A.
- Major: Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies
- Honors: <i>magna cum laude</i>
Languages
- English (Primary)
- Spanish
Classes and Seminars
- Maximizing and Limiting Wage and Hour Damages, Practising Law Institute, - 2021
- Speaker: "Wage & Hour Collective and Class Actions: Asserting and Challenging Affirmative Defenses", Strafford Webinar, - 2020
- Panelist: "An Overview of Pay Equity Issues", New York City Bar Association, 5th Annual Employment Law Institute, - 2019
- Panelist: "A Road Map: Revising Arbitration Agreements in Light of Epic", New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section 2019 Annual Meeting, - 2019
- Panelist: "Switching to Offense in Employment Cases", New York State Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Meeting, - 2018
- Moderator: "Working Productively With the Other Side to Get What you Need", NELA Spring Seminar, ESI & Technology for the Plaintiffs’ Employment Lawyer, - 2018
- Panelist: "Wage & Hour Collective and Class Actions: Asserting and Challenging Affirmative Defenses", Strafford Webinar Panel, - 2018
- Speaker: "Strategies After Decertification", NELA 2018 Annual Convention, - 2018
- Speaker: "Life After Epic Systems: How Employers, Employees, and Arbitrators Are Adapting to the World of Class Action Waivers", American Bar Association, - 2018
- Co-Presenter: "A View from the Plaintiff's Bar", FordHarrison and lus Laboris, Eighth Annual Year-End Labor & Employment Law Workshop, - 2018
- Moderator: "Discovery Rules Amendments in Practice", NELA/NY, Spring Conference on Representing Employees, - 2017
- Speaker: "Proportionality in Discovery", American Association for Justice, 2017 Annual Convention, - 2017
- Moderator: "The Nuts and Bolts of a Wage & Hour Case from Intake to Resolution", NELA Spring Seminar, Litigating Wage & Hour Cases: Challenges and Opportunities, - 2017
- Speaker: "Exempt Employees” and “Calculating Damages under State and Federal Law", ADR Department of the Eastern District of New York, Co-Sponsored by the Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of New York Chapter, Fair Labor Standards Act Training for Mediators, - 2016
- Moderator: "Who’s Exempt", NELA/NY, Fall Conference on Representing Employees, - 2016
- Panelist: "Overtime: To Pay or Not to Pay – That is the Question: Recent Developments in Wage and Hour Law", Labor & Employment Relations Association, - 2016
- Panelist: "Arbitration Clauses in Employment Contracts", Rutgers Labor & Employment Society, - 2016
- Speaker: "Views From the Plaintiffs’ Bar: Adapting Your Defense Strategies to New and Innovative Techniques and Tactics", American Conference Institute, Wage & Hour Conference, - 2016
- Speaker: "Using Technology In Litigating Wage & Hour Cases", NELA Spring Seminar, Protecting Pay, Representing Workers with Wage & Hour Claims, - 2015
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- New York, 2010
- District of Columbia
Other Affiliations
- New York Affiliate of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA/NY) (Board Member)
- American Bar Association Section of Labor and Employment Law, Federal Labor Standards Legislation Committee (Member)
- Federal Bar Council, Employment Litigation Committee (Member)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
- New York City Bar Association (Member)
- American Association for Justice (Member)
Articles
Published Works
- Obama Administration Updates Overtime Rules, O&G Employment Law Blog, 2015
- Technology Tools for Labor and Employment Lawyers, ABA Labor & Employment Law Section Newsletter, Volume 44 Number 1, 2017
Office Info
Other Colleagues
- Associate
- 9 years of experience
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