Gena B.Usenheimer

Gena’s practice also includes employment advice and counsel, and litigation work.  Gena counsels employers, works with them to avoid litigation, and represents her clients in litigation, as necessary.  Gena routinely leads the defense of single-plaintiff, multi-plaintiff, and complex class and collective actions, including for some of the Firm’s largest clients.  

Over her 19 years of practicing employment law, Gena has gained substantial litigation experience in both state and federal courts, and has successfully defended clients facing claims of discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation arising under federal, state, and municipal laws. She has defended employers in wage and hour class and collective actions, complex discrimination class actions, class and individual arbitrations, and in administrative proceedings before various agencies, such as the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New York State Division of Human Rights. Gena has also assisted clients in navigating wage and hour investigations and audits before the US Department of Labor and state investigative agencies.

Prior to joining Seyfarth, Gena defended the MTA New York City Transit Authority in employment disputes.