Indiana is full of every day people working hard and trying to make a life. Yet, despite good efforts, hundreds are fired from their jobs because of discrimination and harassment. The stakes are high when you've lost your job, your reputation, or your liberty.
If you've lost your job, experienced work place discrimination, harassment, or been downsized, you must meet certain deadlines or you will not be able to file a lawsuit against your employer. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to seek a lawyer with experience in employment law when you've been terminated. You owe it to yourself to find an attorney who is passionate, prepared, and committed to protecting your rights and reputation.
Introducing Kathleen M. Sweeney-
A graduate of Indiana University School of Law, Bloomington, and Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Kathleen M. Sweeney is an attorney who concentrates in representing employees including managers throughout Indiana. She has been a trial lawyer for over 11 years. She is known as an aggressive advocate and takes seriously her responsibility to each client to be prepared and thorough in her employment law cases.
Ms. Sweeney spent many years as a prosecutor and has transferred those skills to be bringing and pursuing plaintiff's cases. She has chosen to represent only people not companies.
Central to Ms. Sweeney's philosophy of representation is contact with her clients. Each client has 24 hour access to her through email and voicemail. She is a lawyer who welcomes her client's input into the legal strategy that may well affect the client for the rest of his or her life.
Kathleen sees every client as a partner in negotiating the legal maze. She passionately seeks protection of each client's rights. Because she has chosen to represent the underdog, she is acutely aware of the responsibility and she takes it seriously.
Experience Counts.
Employment and Whistle Blower Law
In the employment law arena, Ms. Sweeney has successfully represented clients who were victimized and or terminated because of race and age discrimination, disability discrimination, sex harassment and whistle blowing. She successfully represented a former Customs Service Agent before the Federal Circuit. She was successful in reversing the MSPB decision that dismissed her client's whistle blower claim.
Ms. Sweeney recently negotiated a six-figure severance package for a female executive who had been sexually harassed by management during her employment with a Fortune 500 company. She also acted as co-counsel with Amy Debrota in a class action suit representing employees in claim for unpaid overtime.
As an experienced trial and appellate lawyer, Kathleen will never guarantee an outcome or result. She will pledge to represent you to the best of her ability.
Her experience can be an asset to anyone who has been the victim of:
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Sex Discrimination
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Sexual Harassment and Hostile Work Environment
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Age Discrimination
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Race Discrimination
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Disability Discrimination
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Religious Discrimination
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Sexual Orientation Discrimination
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Downsizing
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Retaliation
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Unpaid Wages and Overtime
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Whistle Blower (qui tam)
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Police Misconduct
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Denial of Civil Rights including False Arrest.
Today, Ms. Sweeney maintains memberships with the following organizations:
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Indianapolis and Indiana Bar Association
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Indiana Public Defender's Council
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National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
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National Employment Lawyers Association
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Taxpayers Against Fraud
(whistle blower advocacy)
Flexible Appointments Major Credit Cards Accepted
Indianapolis employment lawyer Kathleen M. Sweeney represents clients statewide with claims for sexual harassment, race discrimination, qui tam claims, and police abuse including in Marion County, Hamilton County, Hendricks County, Johnson County, Lake County, St. Joseph's County, Gary, Elkhart, Terre Haute, Fort Wayne, South Bend, Bloomington, Evansville, Plainfield, Crown Point, Westfield, Carmel, Fishers, Greenwood, Avon, and Danville IN.