Helen A. Palladeno

Helen Palladeno is an experienced litigator in both federal and state courts.  She has defended individual, collective, and class action claims involving allegations of discrimination, harassment and retaliation in virtually every protected category, such as age, disability, national origin, pregnancy, race, reduction in force, religion, sex/gender, wage and hour, leave of absence, and whistleblower claims.  Additionally, Helen defends employers in employment-related torts such as breach of contract, tortious interference with a contract or business relationship, civil theft, false imprisonment, invasion of privacy, negligent hiring/supervision/retention, malicious prosecution, infliction of emotional distress, assault and battery, and fraud.

Helen has also defended management before numerous government administrative agencies, including the Florida Commission on Human Relations, the EEOC, OSHA, and the NLRB and has represented employers in audits performed by the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division and OSHA.

On a daily basis, Helen counsels and engages in problem solving with employers concerning their rights and responsibilities under a wide range of employment laws, specializing in the ADA, the FLSA, the FMLA, and Title VII.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Palladeno clerked for the Honorable Florence Foster and the Honorable Rex Barbas of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit of Hillsborough County, Florida.