Practice Areas

Labor and Employment

Jaeckle Fleischmann Adds Three Attorneys to Labor & Employment Practice Group

Jaeckle Welcomes Melinda G. Disare & James N. Schmit

Melinda G. Disare

Partner

mdisare@jaeckle.com

Melinda G. Disare is a Partner in the Firm's Labor and Employment practice group. Prior to joining the Firm, she was a Partner at Damon Morey, LLP. She concentrates her practice in the representation of public and private employers in connection with labor relations and employment issues including labor arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations, as well as in wage and hour and employment discrimination matters. She has appeared before the National Labor Relations Board, the Public Employment Relations Board, the New York State Division of Human Rights, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, New York State and United States Departments of Labor, The New York State Department of Health, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, as well as various state and federal courts. She also has experience in matters involving group health and life insurance litigation including life, health and disability benefit claims, agent commissions, and interpleader matters.

Ms. Disare also provides counsel in all aspects of labor and employment law and advises clients with respect to federal and state employment law such as anti-discrimination laws, the Americans with Disabilities Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Taylor Law, the National Labor Relations Act and the State Employment Relations Act.

Ms. Disare is a frequent lecturer on a full range of labor issues at seminars sponsored by organizations such as the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the Society for Human Resource Management, Construction Financial Management Association, the Medical Group Management Association, the Erie County Bar Association, the Buffalo and Rochester Claims Associations, the New York State Medical News, and Buffalo State Teacher’s College. She has also been a featured guest on WNED’s Law Line program.

Education:

West Virginia University (B.A. 1977) magna cum laude; Cornell Law School (J.D. 1980) cum laude

Admisssions:

New York State Bar; New York State Courts; U.S. District Court, Western and Northern Districts of New York; 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals

Principal Areas of Practice:

Labor relations, administrative proceedings, arbitrations, collective bargaining negotiations; wage and hour; employment discrimination; group health, life and disability insurance litigation

Memberships & Offices:

Member, New York State Bar Association, Women's Bar Association, and Bar Association of Erie County (former Director of BAEC and former Chair of Labor and Employment Law Committee)
Member, Board of Trustees for D'Youville College
Vice President, Volunteer Lawyers Project of Western New York
Member, Board of Directors, for CRCC of Orchard Park, Inc. (d/b/a Fox Run)
Formerly served as the Legislative Liaison on the Board of the Buffalo Niagara Human Resources Association.
Listed in Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers, Top 25 Women in Upstate NY and Super Lawyers Upstate New York, Labor & Employment Section.