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Colleen M. O'Donnell is an associate with Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. She is a member of the firm’s Labor Relations and Employment Law department. Ms. O’Donnell’s practice includes handling a broad variety of employment matters, including the representation of employers in litigation and administrative proceedings, including employment discrimination class actions, disability, sex, age, and race single-plaintiff discrimination claims, defamation and wrongful discharge claims, noncompete matters and various other employment-related matters. She also has a background in counseling employers on compliance with federal and state laws governing the employment relationship, including personnel policies, wage and hour issues, leaves of absence rights, personnel actions, protection of proprietary information, sexual harassment and other workplace investigations and disability accommodations. Ms. O’Donnell is also experienced at drafting and negotiating various types of contracts, including service, licensing, sales, vendor and employment.

Ms. O’Donnell earned her Juris Doctor degree from the Villanova University School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Villanova University and was a Kappa Delta Pi Honors Society member.

Prior to joining Obermayer, Ms. O’Donnell was In-House Counsel for a Fort Washington, Pennsylvania software company. Prior to that, she was an associate in a North Jersey law firm handling complex commercial litigation matters. For two years prior to that, she served as an Assistant District Attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York. Ms. O’Donnell also clerked for the Chief Administrative Judge of Merit System Protection Board in Boston, Massachusetts and served as a legal assistant for a Boston law firm prior to law school.

Ms. O’Donnell is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania Supreme Courts and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

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