Maniscalco, Joseph S

CARMELYN P. MALALIS is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP. She represents employees, individually and in class actions, in all areas of employment law. Ms. Malalis is also the co-chair of the firm's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Workplace Rights Practice Group.

Ms. Malalis has litigated cases on behalf of a variety of employees including low-wage hourly workers, highly compensated professionals, and government workers. In 2005, she was part of the trial team in a case involving allegations of sexual harassment and assault by a woman working as a school aide in a New York City public school. After a few days of testimony, the City of New York and the New York City Board of Education settled the case for $1.5 million. In 2006, she was co-trial counsel representing six Suffolk County Police Officers in a jury trial on their pregnancy discrimination claims. The jury found that the Suffolk County Police Department's limited duty policy was discriminatory and awarded money damages to all six officers. Most recently, in November 2007, Ms. Malalis was co-lead counsel in a federal jury trial that resulted in a $2.54 million verdict for her client, a woman who sued her former employer, WestLB AG, a large European bank. The jury found that the bank had retaliated against the woman, an equity salesperson at the bank, for complaining about gender discrimination and had terminated her in violation of ERISA.

Ms. Malalis has also collaborated with a number of organizations on advocacy and pro bono projects including: the ACLU Women's Rights Project, the New York Civil Liberties Union, MFY Legal Services, Inc., the Legal Aid Society of New York, Legal Services of New York, Damayan Migrant Workers Association, the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Legal Momentum, Equality Now, and Sanctuary for Families. She has also worked as an advocate, educator, and lecturer with organizations such as GABRIELA Network and the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women-Asia Pacific on issues relating to the exploitation of Filipina women through sex trafficking, labor migration, the mail order bride industry, and militarized prostitution. In 2002, Ms. Malalis co-founded BABAE, Inc. BABAE, the Tagalog word for "woman," is a not-for-profit organization created to help Filipina victims and survivors of violence in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area by providing culturally sensitive case management services.

Ms. Malalis is a member of the American Bar Association Section for Labor & Employment Law (Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, Technology in the Practice and Workplace Committee, Diversity Task Force), the New York City Bar Association (Chair, Committee on LGBT Rights), National Lesbian and Gay Law Association, the Lesbian and Gay Law Association of Greater New York, the National Employment Lawyers Association (Lawyers of Color Committee) and its New York affiliate (Diversity Committee), and a member of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Project. Ms. Malalis also sits on the Board of Queers for Economic Justice.

She speaks frequently on employment rights, and LGBT and women's issues, and has co-organized and moderated a seminar at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies ("Representing Sexuality, Performance, and the Law").

Ms. Malalis received her B.A. from Yale University in 1996 and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law in 2001. From 2001-2002, she was a law clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis in the Southern District of New York. Prior to joining Outten & Golden, Ms. Malalis was a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York.