Shapiro, Orie

Michael Hoare has represented thousands of people with serious civil rights and employment discrimination claims since his graduation from American University's Washington College of Law in 1967. He has tried cases in federal courts across the country from New England to the Midwest. A sampling of Mr. Hoare's reported cases is set out below.

In addition to his extensive experience in the courtroom trying civil rights and employment cases, Mr. Hoare has been an active speaker and lecturer. He has addressed, among others, the International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies, the Gateway Chapter of the Industrial Relations Research Association, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's Judicial Conference, the annual convention of the National Organization of Women in Missouri, the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting, Section of Labor and Employment Law, and Georgetown University Law Center's continuing legal education program entitled "Litigating Employment Cases: Views From The Bench."

Mr. Hoare has served as an Assistant Professor of Law at St. Louis University's School of Law, Director of the St. Louis University's Mid-America Employment Rights Project, and as an Adjunct Faculty member at Washington University's School of Law. He served also as a Legal Consultant and Project Director to the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination and as a trial attorney in the United States Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division.

Mr. Hoare has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers In America. He is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the National Employment Lawyer's Association, and the Metropolitan Washington Area Employment Lawyers Association.

Mr. Hoare is a graduate of Boston University and American University's Washington College of Law, Washington, D.C. where he received a Doctor of Jurisprudence, and was the recipient of West Publishing Company's Award for Excellence In The Study of Federal Civil Procedure.

A sampling of Mr. Hoare's reported cases include:

Sexual Harassment and Sex Discrimination (Title VII) (42 U.S.C. 2000e)
Snider v. Consolidation Coal Company , 973 F.2d 555 (7th Cir.1994)
Morris v. American National Can Corp. , 952 F.2d 200 (8th Cir. 1991)
McKee v. Bi-State Development Agency , 801 F.2d 1014 (8th Cir. 1986)
Ryan v. Raytheon Data Systems Co. , 601 F.Supp 243 (D.Mass. 1984)

Racial Discrimination (Title VII) (42 U.S.C. 1981 and 42 U.S.C. 2000e)
Gill v. Reorganized School District R-6 , 32 F.3d 376 (8th Cir. 1994)
Keys v. Lutheran Family and Children's Services , 668 F.2d 356 (8th Cir. 1981)
Green v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. , 528 F.2d 1102 (8th Cir. 1976)

Rehabilitation Act of 1993 (Rehab Act) (29 U.S.C. 794) and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) (42 U.S.C 12101-12213) Taggart v. Trans World Airlines, Inc. , 40 F.3d 269 (8th Cir. 1994)
Arneson v. Sullivan (United States Social Security Administration) 946 F.2d 90 (8th Cir. 1991).
Gardner v. Morris (United States Army Corps. of Engineers) 752 F.2d 1271 (8th Cir. 1985).

Age Discrimination In Employment Act (ADEA) (29 U.S.C. 621-634)
Glover v. McDonnell Douglas Corp. , 12 F.3d 845 (8th Cir. 1994)
Kehoe v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. , 995 F.2d 117 (8th Cir. 1993)
Dickerson v. Deluxe Check Printers, Inc. , 703 F.2d 276 (8th Cir. 1983)