TERESA DEMCHAK
tdemchak@gdblegal.com
Teresa Demchak is the managing partner of Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian. She joined the firm in 1990, became a partner in 1995, and has been the managing partner since 2000. She concentrates her practice in the areas of employment discrimination and other civil rights class action litigation. Ms. Demchak has extensive experience in litigating class action employment discrimination, including most recently,
Mitchell v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.,
McClain v. Lufkin Industries, Inc.,
Tucker v. Walgreen Co. and
Syverson v. International Business Machines, Inc., and other civil rights cases, including
Ridgeway v. Denny's, which resulted in the largest public accommodations class action settlement in the history of Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Ms. Demchak is a frequent lecturer and panelist on subjects relating to class actions, litigation practice and procedure, and the fair employment laws.
EDUCATION
- J.D. degree from Cleveland-Marshall School of Law, Cleveland State University
- Master of Social Service Administration from Case Western Reserve University
- Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Welfare from Cleveland State University
BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS
- California, 1986; Illinois; Ohio (inactive status); Texas
- U.S. District Courts: Eastern, Northern, Central Districts of CA; Southern District of IL; Southern & Northern District of OH; Eastern District of TX
- U.S. Court of Appeals: Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, & Ninth Circuits
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
- Member, ABA Labor and Employment Section
- Member, National Advisory Committee of Cleveland-Marshall School of Law
HONORS
- Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2011-12
- Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
PRIOR EMPLOYMENT
- 1976, cooperating attorney with the NAACP
- 1980-83, Assistant General Counsel in the NAACP's national office in New York
- 1983-90, staff attorney with the National Center for Youth Law in San Francisco
DEMCHAK REPRESENTATIVE CASES