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Sydney is an attorney and the principal at Saffold Law, LLC.  She practices criminal defense litigation in Cleveland, Ohio.  Sydney is licensed to practice law in the state of Ohio, as well as federal court in the Northern District of Ohio and the Southern District of Ohio.. Previously, Sydney represented plaintiff employees in civil actions against employers ranging from Fortune 500 companies to small businesses throughout the state of Ohio in state and federal courts.  In that capacity, she was intimately involved in every aspect of state and federal civil litigation as well as appellate motion practice and litigation  assisting in the representation of employees and plaintiffs in causes of action including but not limited to employment discrimination; whistle blowing; retaliation; Family Medical Leave Act interference and retaliation; Workers' Compensation retaliation; wage and overtime violations; wrongful death; and legal malpractice.. As a  University of Cincinnati College of Law graduate, Sydney developed a passion for litigation. As a law student, she held a limited practice license and practiced with the Hamilton County Public Defender representing indigent defendants in municipal court.

Mr. Lazzaro founded The Lazzaro Law Firm, LLC in 2006 to advocate for the employment, overtime and minimum wage rights of employees. Mr. Lazzaro focuses his practice on litigating collective actions, class actions and individual cases for employees with overtime and minimum wage claims. Mr. Lazzaro also represents employees who have been wrongfully terminated, harassed and discriminated against in the workplace. The firm has recovered over $40 million in settlement payments on behalf of employees.. Mr. Lazzaro commonly handles claims that include misclassifying employees as exempt or as independent contractors; failing to pay for off-the-clock-work, pre-shift and post-shift work, changing into and out of uniforms, meal periods, short rest periods and travel time; improper rounding of start and stop times; and improper tip pooling.. He has litigated over 100 certified collective and class actions against major corporations such as 1-800-Flowers, Inc., Aarons, Inc., Aldi, Inc., Forever 21, Nestlé, Papa John's USA, Inc., Progressive Casualty Insurance, and RadioShack Corp. Many of these cases received local and national press coverage in publications including The Plain Dealer, Crain's Cleveland Business, The Wall Street Journal, and Law360.. Mr. Lazzaro has also filed approximately 20% of all of the Fair Labor Standards Act cases brought in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio.. In addition to his practice, Mr. Lazzaro served as an adjunct professor of law at Cleveland-Marshall College of Law where he taught an administrative law course on the Fair Labor Standards Act between 2008 and 2013. Mr. Lazzaro has also been retained as an expert witness and as a mediator in a number of wage and hour cases.. Before founding his firm, Mr. Lazzaro represented employers in labor and employment matters as an associate attorney in the labor and employment group at Frantz Ward LLP. There, he frequently counseled employers regarding wage and hour compliance. In his current practice, Mr. Lazzaro continues to develop effective strategies for employers who request his assistance in complying with wage and hour laws.. Mr. Lazzaro earned an undergraduate degree in economics from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He graduated cum laude with his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, where he was an Executive Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review and a Teaching Assistant in Civil Procedure.

Chelsea Marie Shenton is an Associate Attorney at the law firm Novak, Pavlik, Deliberato L.L.P. located in Cleveland, Ohio where we focus on the needs of the hardworking people of Northeast Ohio.

Andrew Margolius is an attorney practicing employment law, disability and fair housing law in Northeast Ohio, and is the principal in the firm Margolius, Margolius and Associates, an employee rights and housing oriented law firm.  He has been an attorney since 1983 and practices both in federal and state courts.. Mr. Margolius has  successfully litigated cases in both federal and state court.  Noteworthy among his achievements are advanced in disability discrimination law, long term disability precedent, substantial jury verdicts, and vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws, extending to his insistence upon affirmative relief in family status cases such as requiring a landlord to build a playground to remedy past family status discrimination (“affirmative action for kids”).  He was the attorney in McGill v. Bellissimo, a landmark fair housing sexual discrimination verdict which incorporated sexual harassment and hostile environment theories in the fair housing field, and remains as one of the highest sexual harassment awards for a single plaintiff.  In Silvey v. Washington Square Chiropractic Clinic, 2013-Ohio-438, employment law advances occurred. He was also one of the attorneys who tried a month long sexual harassment case resulting in a $497, jury verdict.  He has tried a case largely of first impression based off of religious discrimination and the application of the religious exemption under the Fair Housing Act.  The case resulted in findings of religious discrimination and retaliation in favor of a homeowner, his intended renter and a fair housing organization.  In 2009, he again had a jury trial in a Dayton Ohio sexual harassment housing discrimination case, resulting in a $248,000 verdict.   He frequently lectures on trial tactics and fair housing, disability and employment law.  Disability work includes Michael Stiso v. International Steel Group, No. 13-3503 (6th Cir. 2015)(long term disability, breach of fiducairy duty) and Houston v. UNUM Life Ins Co, No. 06-3644 (6th Cir. 2007).