Lenora B. "Leni" Plimpton

Lenora (Leni) specializes in employment and commercial litigation. She has experience with a wide range of employment and labor matters, including claims of age, race, and sex discrimination; disability discrimination; EEOC and CCRD charges of discrimination; mediations; arbitrations; and unemployment insurance audits. Leni provides HR advice and counseling to companies of all sizes, from small start-ups and family-owned businesses to large multinational corporations. She has extensive experience litigating and counseling companies on a wide variety of workplace matters including:

• wage and hour;
• hiring and firing;
• meal and rest breaks;
• unemployment claims;
• employee classifications;
• employee, executive, and independent contractor agreements;
• bullying, harassment, and retaliation claims;
• workplace investigations;
• employee discipline;
• disability accommodations;
• paid and unpaid leave;
• executive severance agreements;
• employee releases, severance agreements, and settlement agreements;
• reductions in force;
• employment policies and practices;
• recordkeeping requirements and payroll;
• protected activity and policies under the NLRA (National Labor Relations Act);
• non-competition, confidentiality, and non-solicitation agreements;
• remote workers;
• risk assessments

After so much time working for the Courts, Leni loves appellate work and has a great deal of knowledge and experience in appeals, having drafted appellate briefs, petitions for certiorari, county court appeals, and appeals to the Colorado Industrial Claims Appeals Office.

Leni attended law school at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and then served as a law clerk on the Utah Supreme Court (for the late Justice Ronald Nehring and former Justice Deno Himonas). She then moved to Denver to clerk for former 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.

Practice Areas

• Employment law
• Labor law
• Employment Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Appeals

Bar Admissions

• Utah
• Colorado
• S District Court, District of Colorado
• S. District Court, District of Utah

Education

Juris Doctor, University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law – 2013

Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia College – 2007