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Lenora B. "Leni" Plimpton

Williams, Weese, Pepple & Ferguson
  • Recognized Since:
    2021
  • Recognized in:
    Commercial Litigation
  • Law School:
    University of Utah
  • Lawyer Page:
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  • Website:
    https://www.williamsweese.com
  • Location:
    1801 California Street, Suite 3400
    Denver, CO 80202
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Leni specializes in labor and employment litigation.  She has experience with EEOC charges, mediations, arbitrations, settlement negotiations, pre-trial practice, trial, and appeal.  Leni has specific expertise in issues arising under the ADA, Title VII discrimination and harassment claims, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, misclassification issues, wage and hour (FLSA) claims, and the National Labor Relations Act and traditional labor law matters.

Leni has provided advice and counseling to companies of all sizes, from small start-ups and family-owned businesses, to very large multi-national corporations.  This advice has included workplace investigations, disciplinary actions and termination decisions, accommodation requests, leave requests, employment agreements, executive severance agreements and releases, reductions in force, and employee policies.

Additionally, Leni has a great deal of appellate experience, having drafted appellate briefs, petitions for certiorari, county court appeals, and appeals to the Industrial Claims Appeals Office (i.e. unemployment benefits appeals).

After attending law school at the University of Utah, Leni clerked for two Justices on the Utah Supreme Court (Justice Nehring, now retired, and Justice Himonas) and then she came to Denver to clerk for Chief Justice Nancy Rice at the Colorado Supreme Court.  Prior to joining Fortis in 2018, Lenora was an associate at Bryan Cave, LLP in Denver.

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Leni specializes in labor and employment litigation.  She has experience with EEOC charges, mediations, arbitrations, settlement negotiations, pre-trial practice, trial, and appeal.  Leni has specific expertise in issues arising under the ADA, Title VII discrimination and harassment claims, the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act, misclassification issues, wage and hour (FLSA) claims, and the National Labor Relations Act and traditional labor law matters.

Leni has provided advice and counseling to companies of all sizes, from small start-ups and family-owned businesses, to very large multi-national corporations.  This advice has included workplace investigations, disciplinary actions and termination decisions, accommodation requests, leave requests, employment agreements, executive severance agreements and releases, reductions in force, and employee policies.

Additionally, Leni has a great deal of appellate experience, having drafted appellate briefs, petitions for certiorari, county court appeals, and appeals to the Industrial Claims Appeals Office (i.e. unemployment benefits appeals).

After attending law school at the University of Utah, Leni clerked for two Justices on the Utah Supreme Court (Justice Nehring, now retired, and Justice Himonas) and then she came to Denver to clerk for Chief Justice Nancy Rice at the Colorado Supreme Court.  Prior to joining Fortis in 2018, Lenora was an associate at Bryan Cave, LLP in Denver.

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Education:

  • University of Utah , Juris Doctorate, graduated 2013
  • Columbia University School of General Studies, B.A., graduated 2007

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  • Commercial Litigation

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  • Colorado - Supreme Court
  • Utah - Supreme Court

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Williams, Weese, Pepple & Ferguson
https://www.williamsweese.com
 
1801 California Street, Suite 3400
Denver, CO 80202
303-861-2828

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