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Tracey Holmes Donesky is a shareholder in the Employment and Labor practice group. She represents a variety of clients on counseling issues related to hiring and discipline, and represents clients in state and federal court, as well as before administrative agencies on a variety of employment issues, including employment discrimination and noncompete claims. She has done various speaking engagements on a variety of topics, including noncompetition, nonsolicitation covenants and confidentiality provisions, pre-employment screening and testing and the new amendment to the Americans With Disabilities Act.
Ms. Donesky also has experience litigating FLSA collective actions and is currently involved in three FLSA collective actions involving claims for off-the-clock overtime pay venued in federal court in Pennsylvania, Minnesota and Nebraska, one of which involves state law class claims. Ms. Donesky also has spoken recently on this topic and the procedures and substantive strategies in collective/class action litigation. Prior to joining the firm, she served as a judicial law clerk to the Honorable John. R. Tunheim, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota. In 2008, she was named among Minnesota’s "Up & Coming Attorneys" by Minnesota Lawyer.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Judicial Clerk to Honorable John R. Tunheim, U.S. District Court, District of
Minnesota, 2000-2002
Named a "Rising Star" by Minnesota Law & Politics, 2004, 2005,
2006 & 2007
Member, Federal Bar Association
PUBLICATIONS
Reassignment Under the Americans With Disabilities Act: Reasonable Accomodation, Affirmative Actions, or Both? Washington Law Review, Fall 2000 by Stephen F. Befort and Tracey Holmes Donesky.
EDUCATION
J.D., magna cum laude, University of Minnesota Law School, 2000
Order of the Coif
Managing editor, Minnesota Law Review, 1999-2000
B.A., summa cum laude, University of Kentucky, 1996
Member, Phi Beta Kappa
ADMISSIONS
State of Minnesota, 2000
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, 2002
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