Alison Fry
Fri, 09/09/2022
Gregory McGillivary and Molly Elkin, partners at McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP, have been awarded the recognition of ‘Best Lawyer for Employment Law – Individuals’ for the 2023 Best Lawyer rankings.
To be awarded this recognition, Best Lawyers conducts “exhaustive peer review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.” Their methodology is “designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area”. They employ a “sophisticated, conscientious, rational, and transparent survey process designed to elicit meaningful and substantive evaluations of the quality of legal services”.
The Best Lawyers directory is “the oldest and most respected peer review publication in the legal profession,” consisting of 78 countries around the world with over 11 million evaluations of lawyers by others in the profession.
Greg, who is the firm’s managing partner, was nominated and admitted as a Best Lawyer in 2021, 2022 and 2023 Best Lawyer rankings and directory. Throughout Greg’s 30+ years of practice, he has become an expert in litigating, arbitrating, settling, and most importantly, winning cases on behalf of unions and individual workers who have been wrongly denied pay and benefits. He is especially sought after for cases involving violations of minimum wage, overtime pay, shift differentials, hazardous duty pay requirements, and improper pay rates. Along with his expertise in representing workers for individual matters, Greg has successfully represented large class and collective action cases with thousands of plaintiffs in multi-million-dollar settlements to recover wages for workers and union members who have not been properly compensated for their work. To learn more about our managing partner, visit Greg’s full profile now available on the Best Lawyers website: https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/gregory-k-mcgillivary/175389.
Molly was nominated and admitted as a Best Lawyer in August 2022 for the 2023 Best Lawyer rankings and directory. For the past two decades, Molly has served as lead trial counsel in countless pay cases across the country. She has collected over $150 Million for workers in various professions, including computer specialists, fire fighters, meat packers, satellite dish installers, canine handlers, juvenile counselors, border patrol agents, firearms instructors, mortgage loan officers, police officers, correctional officers, and restaurant workers. In addition to her robust nation-wide wage and hour practice, Molly has won multiple jury verdicts in federal courts across the country in First Amendment and Title VII discrimination cases brought on behalf of America’s workers – workers who were retaliated against for speaking out on matters of public concern, workers who were fired or passed over for deserved promotions for associating with their union, and female workers who were discriminated against because of pregnancy, or who were subjected to a hostile working environment. To learn more, visit Molly’s full profile now available on the Best Lawyers website: https://www.bestlawyers.com/lawyers/molly-elkin/141085.
