Maria Greco Danaher Shareholder Office(s): Pittsburgh p: 412-394-3333 f: 412-232-1799 Practice Area(s): Labor and Employment, Litigation   Bio: Ms. Danaher regularly represents and counsels companies and healthcare entities in employment-related matters.  Her area of emphasis is employment litigation, including both administrative claims and matters in federal and state courts. She also specializes in training, counseling, and advising human resource departments and management on employment-related topics, and regularly counsels clients on, and assists in developing, written policies and procedures related to employment issues. Ms. Danaher’s initial employment and labor law experience began with an in-house legal position at a Fortune 100 company, and has continued as outside counsel to small and medium sized companies and healthcare entities, as well as to large corporations. In addition, Ms. Danaher has extensive experience in alternate dispute resolution, and regularly acts as a mediator, arbitrator, and neutral evaluator in federal court actions. Ms. Danaher attended law school at the University of Pittsburgh and is admitted to the bar of Pennsylvania. She is a regular contributor to HR Magazine’s “Court Reports” column, and serves on the Advisory Board to “You & the Law,” a publication of the National Institute for Business Management.  She is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, and writes regularly for the newsletters of both the Labor and Employment Practice Group, and the Medical Staff, Credentialing, and Peer Review Practice Group.   Ms. Danaher is an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh Law School; she also acts as an Instructor for the trial tactics and mediation advocacy programs conducted by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). She has been named as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2007.   Education: J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1986 B.A., Economics, University of Pittsburgh, 1982 B.S. Music Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1972   Admitted to Practice: Pennsylvania, 1986 West Virginia, 2009 U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1986 U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania, 2004 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1986 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1990 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1990 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 1990   Publications: Contributing Author: "Court Report," Monthly Column, HR News, Society for Human Resource Management Contributing Author, “MedStaff News” and “Labor & Employment Newsletter,” publications of the American Health Lawyers Association   Activities: Allegheny County Bar Association; American Health Lawyers Association; Adjunct Professor, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy; Member, Board of Trustees, Family Services of Western Pennsylvania

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