Lorenger & Carnell PLC

Christine joined Lorenger & Carnell in 2015 after more than 10 years at Hogan Lovells (previously Hogan & Hartson). Christine has extensive experience representing employers in litigation before federal and state courts and administrative agencies. She also provides counseling on complex legal requirements and daily workforce management, and has significant experience in traditional labor law, including representing clients in collective bargaining negotiations. Christine received her B.A. from Yale University and her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. After law school, Christine clerked for the Honorable J. Frederick Motz, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland. 

Practice Specialties

• Employment Litigation Defense
• Discrimination/Human rights
• FMLA
• Retaliation/Whistleblower claims
• Wage and hour/FLSA defense/Employment standards
• Employment Counseling and Advice
• Handbook Review
• Leave laws
• Personnel policies
• Wage and hour audits
• Labor Unions/Labor Relations
• Collective bargaining
• Arbitration
• Unfair labor practices
• Employment Contracts and Litigation
• Non-compete/non-solicit agreements
• Confidentiality and trade secret agreements
• Trade secrets and non-compete agreements
• Executive employment agreements (including change of control)

Susan Carnell, a co-founder of employment boutique Lorenger & Carnell, PLC, regularly advocates for her clients in all manner of employment litigation, and advises in-house counsel and HR professionals on a wide variety of employee-relation issues. Susan previously practiced with Hogan & Hartson LLP and Covington & Burling PC A native of Norfolk, Virginia, Susan graduated from the University of Virginia and UVA’s School of Law, where she was a member of the Virginia Law Review and the Order of the Coif. After graduation, Susan clerked for the Honorable J. Frederick Motz (U.S.D.C) in Baltimore, Maryland.

Practice Specialties

• Employment Litigation Defense
• Responses to administrative agency charges
• Wage and hour/FLSA defense/Employment standards
• Internal complaint investigations
• FMLA
• EEOC/EEO investigations
• Wrongful discharge/Wrongful dismissal
• Sexual Harassment
• Discrimination/Human rights
• Employment Counseling and Advice
• Supervisor and harassment/violence training
• Handbook Review
• Leave laws
• Personnel policies
• Employment Contracts and Litigation
• Trade secrets and non-compete agreements
• Confidentiality and trade secret agreements
• Non-compete/non-solicit agreements

For more than twenty years Michael has provided counseling and litigation representation in all areas of employment law to employers ranging in size from four employees to forty thousand. He has handled cases before federal and state courts and agencies in more than twenty-five states, before at least four U.S. courts of appeal, and in several state supreme courts. 

Practice Specialties

• Employment Litigation Defense
• Discrimination/Human rights
• Sexual Harassment
• Wrongful discharge/Wrongful dismissal
• Class, collective and representative actions (defense of)
• EEOC/EEO investigations
• FMLA
• Retaliation/Whistleblower claims
• Internal complaint investigations
• Class actions
• Wage and hour/FLSA defense/Employment standards
• Responses to administrative agency charges
• Employment Counseling and Advice
• Supervisor and harassment/violence training
• Handbook Review
• Compliance/Compliance audits
• Leave laws
• Personnel policies
• Wage and hour audits
• WARN Act/Plant closings/RIF Planning
• Employment Contracts and Litigation
• Non-compete/non-solicit agreements
• Confidentiality and trade secret agreements
• Trade secrets and non-compete agreements
• Executive employment agreements (including change of control)
• Termination provisions (statutory requirements and reasonable notice)
• Defamation
• Workplace Privacy
• Human Rights