User details
ID 1473197607 Email address scimini@leechtishman.com
Status ResoluteOnly
First name Sally Last name Cimini
Full name Sally Griffith Cimini Esq.
Gender Male
Pdf https://www.nadn.org/resolute/PDF/1473197607.PDF
Photo resolute/photos/Sally-Cimini.jpg
Contact information
Corporation Leech Tishman
Address 1 525 William Penn Place, 30th Floor
City Pittsburgh
ZIP Code 15219
State Pennsylvania
Phone (412)261-1600 Fax (412)227-5551
Cell public? Yes
Promote video conferencing? No
CC name   CC email  
Formal Qualifications & Memberships
Judge? No
ADR services 1,2
Education
  • J.D., Duquesne University School of Law 
  • Certificate in Personnel & Industrial Relations, University of Pittsburgh 
  • B.A. in Speech Communication & Theatre and Journalism/Public Relations, Duquesne University
Memberships
  • American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section; Dispute Resolution Committee) 
  • Pennsylvania Bar Association (Immediate Past Chair, ADR Committee; Member, Labor and Employment Section) 
  • Allegheny County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section (Council Member); ADR Committee; Women in the Law Division Model Policy Committee) 
  • Allegheny County Personnel Board (Member) 
  • Association for Conflict Resolution 
  • Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania (President) 
  • Pennsylvania Council of Mediators 
  • Pittsburgh Human Resources Association (Past Newsletter Editor and Membership Chairperson) 
  • Society for Human Resource Management 
  • Tri-State Society for Human Resources Management (Board Member and Past President)
Biography

Sally Griffith Cimini is highly regarded for her experience in the areas of employment law and alternative dispute resolution. Sally is a partner and chairs Leech Tishman’s Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employment Practice Groups.

Sally has over 25 years of experience devoted exclusively to counseling and litigating on behalf of private and public sector employers in all aspects of the employment relationship, from hiring through termination. She regularly advises clients on employment discrimination issues, workplace and sexual harassment, disability accommodation, Family & Medical Leave Act compliance, employee handbooks, human resource policies and practices, wage and hour issues, use of temporary/leased/contract employees and independent contractors, performance appraisals, workplace investigations, drug and alcohol testing, workplace privacy issues, disciplinary action and termination, reductions in force, employment at-will/wrongful discharge, alternative dispute resolution, union avoidance, employment agreements, restrictive covenants and confidentiality agreements, severance agreements, waivers and releases, and unemployment compensation claims.

Sally routinely represents employers in employment discrimination litigation before the federal and state courts as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, Ohio Civil Rights Commission, and City of Pittsburgh Commission on Human Relations. She also represents employers in all aspects of labor relations, including grievances, arbitration and National Labor Relations Board proceedings. Sally has extensive experience with wage and hour practice before the U.S. Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division.

Sally is also active in the field of alternative dispute resolution, particularly as an employment dispute mediator, arbitrator and early neutral evaluator. She regularly serves as a mediator, arbitrator and early neutral evaluator for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Program of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Sally is a mediator and arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association (AAA), and also provides services as a private mediator. A member of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution (CPR) Panel of Distinguished Neutrals, Sally is also a contract mediator for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a panel mediator on the UPMC Intermediation Panel. She is a member of Resolute Systems Pennsylvania Employment Panel of Mediators and Arbitrators.

Prior to joining Leech Tishman, Sally was a shareholder and associate at various prominent law firms in Pittsburgh. During the course of her career, she has practiced employment and labor law in both private practice and as in-house employment counsel for a major electric utility in Pittsburgh. Her work has always focused on employment and labor matters, prior to, while attending and since graduating from law school. While attending law school, Sally worked as a personnel specialist at Union Switch and Signal and also spent time as a law clerk for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.

Sally has published numerous articles on employment law and is a regular speaker on employment, labor law and human resources issues and has served on the faculty of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Employment Law Institute and other PBI employment programs for many years.

ADR Practice & Case Experience
Additional languages 1
Practice started 0
Dispute areas 1,28,92,95,96
Calendar Settings
Private calendar purchased No
Calendar preference Disabled Calendar display type 5 day
Calendar last update time Never
Booking
Whole days Disabled Multiple mediations Disabled Ask Client to Select ADR Service? Disabled
Time zone Eastern
Requested Date Automatically Held/Booked? Disabled Auto hold type On Hold Ask if all attending counsel agreed on date? Disabled
Notes mandatory? Yes
Additional attendees No
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