Rona, Ilyas J.

CARA E. GREENE is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP, where she represents employees in litigation and negotiation in all areas of employment law, including executive and professional contracts and compensation; disability, pregnancy, and family responsibilities discrimination; and class actions.

Ms. Greene has litigated both individual and class action cases on behalf of a variety of employees including low-wage hourly workers, highly compensated professionals, and employees in the financial services. In November 2007, Ms. Greene was part of the trial team 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, for complaining about gender discrimination and had terminated her in violation of ERISA. Ms. Greene also successfully represented a former UPS employee before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and on remand to the Northern District of New York. The district court had found that UPS discriminated against the employee because of his disability by refusing to accommodate him and by firing him, but the court had denied the employee significant relief. On remand from the Second Circuit, the district court awarded over 24 years of back and front pay, totaling more than $1.5 million, and ordered UPS to make pension contributions until the client reached the age of 65.

In addition, Ms. Greene reviews and negotiates employment contracts and compensation guarantees, as well as severance agreements and other exit arrangements, for executives, financial service employees, and other professionals.

Before law school, Ms. Greene worked for Ohio State Senator Rhine McLin and the Ohio Senate Minority Caucus. Ms. Greene received her B.A. in political studies from Gordon College, where she was an A.J. Gordon Scholar. She received her J.D. from Fordham University School of Law, where she served on Fordham's Moot Court Board and was a member of the moot court team that reached the semi-finals in the national J. Braxton Craven Moot Court Competition in Constitutional Law, hosted by the University of North Carolina.

Ms. Greene has authored and co-authored numerous articles on employment and partnership law and ethics issues and is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and its New York affiliate, as well as the American Bar Association and the New York City and State Bar Associations. In the ABA Section on Labor and Employment Law, she is Plaintiff's Co-Chair of the Employment Rights and Responsibilities Ethics Sub-Committee, as well as an active member of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee.

She is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the District Courts for the Southern, Northern, Eastern, and Western Districts of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.