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LaDonna’s practice focuses on employment and discrimination law.  She has represented thousands of workers in employment related matters, including complex class actions to recover unpaid wages and benefits, employment discrimination matters, sexual harassment, retaliation, prevailing wage violations, FLSA violations, wage parity act violations, and unlawful termination and discipline. LaDonna has litigated labor and employment law claims in both federal and state courts, including numerous high profile matters that have been reported in Bloomberg Businessweek, the New York Law Journal, Law 360, Labor Press and other similar publications.  LaDonna has also provided testimony on employees’ rights in the workplace at hearings held before various government agencies. LaDonna is an experienced appellate attorney having successfully argued cases before the New York Court of Appeals, the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, and obtained favorable decisions from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. LaDonna has additional experience in general commercial litigation and has helped recover unpaid benefit fund contributions on behalf of unions and their members.

Prior to joining Virginia & Ambinder, LLP, LaDonna clerked for the Honorable Timothy E. Meredith of the Court of Special Appeals in Annapolis, Maryland. LaDonna has authored several articles on employee rights, including an article on the rights of unpaid interns that was published in U.S. News & World Report. LaDonna also has been a panelist at multiple symposiums where she lectured on prevailing wages, overtime laws and class actions. Super Lawyers has repeatedly recognized LaDonna as a Top Woman Attorney.  LaDonna has also been named in Best Lawyers' Women of Influence awards.

LaDonna is admitted to practice law in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, the Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of the United States District Court of New York and New York State Courts.

LaDonna is actively involved with several not-for-profit organizations.  She serves on the board of TakeRoot Justice, and she provides counseling and assistance to several other not-for profits, including Make the Road New York, the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops, and the Chinese Staff and Workers’ Association.  LaDonna is also a leadership member of the New York Chapter of the Coalition of Women's Initiatives in the Law.


Areas of Practice

  • FLSA Class Actions
  • State Wage and Hour Class Actions
  • Employment Discrimination Matters
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Breach of Contract
  • ERISA Litigation
  • Appeals


Bar Admissions

  • New York
  • U.S. District Court Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit


Education

  • University of Baltimore School of Law, Baltimore, Maryland – 2004
  • Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  • Honors: Heuisler Honor Society
  • West Virginia State University – 1997
  • Honors: With Honors