Valerie Hoffman Email & Phone Number

Valerie Hoffman is a partner at Seyfarth Shaw LLP where she has a nation-wide practice of labor and employment law. As counsel to management, Valerie advises employers of all varieties and sizes, including Fortune 100 technology, financial services, professional services, hospitality, and manufacturing companies. While Valerie has a broad-based employment law advice and counsel practice, she has a particular focus on strategies to prevent and resolve issues relating to employment discrimination, including pay equity and glass ceiling issues, OFCCP defense and affirmative action compliance, and advice about legally defensible diversity, equity and inclusion practices. Valerie is a core leader of the Firm’s Pay Equity Group and founded and is Co-Chair of the Firm’s nationally prominent OFCCP & Diversity practices. In addition, Valerie co-founded and co-chairs Seyfarth’s People Analytics group. This forward-facing people analytics practice works with employers to design and implement metrics for tracking, assessment and achievement of workforce objectives including effective talent acquisition and management, workforce planning, leadership development, pay equity, diversity & inclusion, reductions in force, and other objectives where data can be leveraged to improve human capital management and work life.Valerie also provides counsel and advice on diversity, equity and inclusion best practices, metrics, progress management and change management. She has extensive experience counseling senior leaders about these issues and their intersection with employment discrimination law and environmental, social and governance (ESG) objectives. Valerie receives national media coverage of her observations about issues involving employment-related issues, including workplace metrics, employment discrimination, government compliance, glass ceiling issues, pay equity and diversity, equity and inclusion. She is a popular speaker and writer on these topics.

Listed skills include Employment Law, Employment Discrimination, Legal Research, Commercial Litigation, and 18 others.

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  Partner

  Seyfarth Shaw

  Practice Group Chair