Janeen Olsen Dougherty is a founding member of Grey Street Legal, LLC, a law firm based in Exton, PA, representing corporate clients and business executives on a wide variety of transactional, employment and commercial matters. Ms. Dougherty actively litigates employment matters in federal and state courts and has extensive experience in handling discrimination, harassment, retaliation, employment-related libel and slander, breach of contract, noncompetition, trade secret and other employment claims.

In her current practice, Ms. Dougherty regularly counsels clients in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York on the potential liability arising from each facet of the employment relationship, from the applicant interview to post-employment communications. She represents employers before the EEOC on a multitude of individual and systemic discrimination claims, conducts investigations and management training, drafts employment contracts and separation agreements, and counsels businesses in order to ensure that their policies and practices are in compliance with employment laws and regulations.

Ms. Dougherty previously served as Associate General Counsel for Airgas, Inc., a public company having more than 14,000 employees. In that role, Ms. Dougherty was responsible for providing employment counseling, conducting workplace investigations, developing policy and managing all employment litigation across twenty (20) operating companies. Ms. Dougherty worked closely with risk management and internal audit to ensure effective internal controls and corporate governance. Prior to joining Airgas, Ms. Dougherty was a shareholder with McCausland, Keen & Buckman, P.C. and served as a commercial litigator and head of its employment law practice for nine years. Ms. Dougherty began her career as an employment and labor law litigator with Clark, Ladner, Fortenbaugh & Young in Philadelphia, PA.

Ms. Dougherty is a frequent course planner, guest lecturer and author of numerous
employment- related publications for attorneys, human resources professionals and executives.  She has  presented on emerging areas in employment-related claims including third-party discrimination claims and claims by contingent workers.

Ms. Dougherty is a 1989 summa cum laude graduate of Villanova University and a 1992 cum laude graduate of Villanova University School of Law, where she was a published author and served as editor of the Villanova Environmental Law Journal.

Celia M. Joseph, Esquire

Celia M. Joseph is the founder of Celia M. Joseph & Associates PC, a firm that provides employers with legal counseling, training, and other services on a wide range of employment matters.  For over 25 years, Ms. Joseph has helped private, public, and non-profit employers and has gained a well-deserved reputation as an attorney, consultant and speaker to whom employers turn to ensure they have legal, respectful, and highly-productive workplaces.

Prior to starting her firm, Ms. Joseph served as Assistant General Counsel, Employment Law Manager, and Corporate EEO/Diversity Manager for Rohm and Haas Company, a specialty materials business with 20,000 employees worldwide.  In this capacity, Ms. Joseph was responsible for counseling the Company and its managers in the United States and internationally on legal and practical aspects of employment issues, including equal employment opportunity, harassment prevention and correction, federal contractors’ affirmative action and non-discrimination obligations, privacy, workplace investigations, wage and hour requirements, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, performance management, workplace violence prevention, workplace health and safety, and litigation.  In addition, Ms. Joseph had responsibility for ensuring the Company’s global legal compliance on employment law and other matters, and served as co-author of the Company’s mandated Legal Compliance Program.

Ms. Joseph has significant experience regarding compliance by federal contractors with the U. S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) requirements.  Ms. Joseph managed, set corporate strategy, prepared Affirmative Action Plan processes, and provided legal advice and successful defense in more than 100 OFCCP Compliance Reviews in her dual legal and human resources roles.  Ms. Joseph also helped develop and manage the programs and processes that caused Rohm and Haas Company to be one of the first employers to complete successfully an OFCCP Corporate Management Review (Glass Ceiling Audit), and to be awarded the prestigious U. S. Department of Labor’s Exemplary Voluntary Effort in Diversity (EVE) Award, as well as numerous other U. S. and international diversity awards, including the City of Philadelphia’s Equal Employment Opportunity Award.

Ms. Joseph is recognized internationally as a leading speaker on a myriad of employment law and training issues.  Her exciting and interactive seminars empower and educate employers and employees to make a positive difference in their workplaces.  Ms. Joseph has lectured to organizations such as the U. S. Department of Labor, the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Labor Relations, Drexel University’s LeBow School of Business, Temple University’s Fox School of Business Management, Villanova University’s Masters Program in Human Resources, and numerous other business, non-profit, governmental, and educational institutions.  Her articles on topics including preventing workplace harassment, The Americans with Disabilities Act, the Federal Family and Medical Act, OFCCP compliance, protecting workplace privacy, and avoiding workplace violence appear in publications such as the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Annual Employment Law Seminar manuals.  Ms. Joseph is a member of the Labor Law Committees of both the American Bar Association (ABA) and the Philadelphia Bar Association, and is an editor of the ABA’s Equal Employment Opportunity Committee’s Employment Discrimination Law publication.

Ms. Joseph earned her Mediation Certificate from the Center for Dispute Settlement in Washington, D.C. and serves as a Judge Pro Tempore for the Philadelphia Court System’s Dispute Resolution Center, First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, Civil Trial Division.  A summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Temple University (B.A. 1975), Ms. Joseph received her law degree, cum laude, from Temple University School of Law (1979), and an MBA, summa cum laude, from Drexel University’s Lebow School of Business (2002).  She is a member of the Board of Directors of Women’s Way.

Jennifer Platzkere Snyder, Esquire

Jennifer Platzkere Snyder, Esquire is a Partner in the Litigation Department and the Labor & Employment Practice Group at Dilworth Paxson LLP in Philadelphia, PA, where she represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including traditional union-management relations, employment discrimination, non-competition and trade secret disputes, executive employment agreements, wage and hour audits, personnel policies, and employee discipline and discharge matters.  In addition to counseling clients on minimizing litigation risks and negotiating satisfactory resolutions of disputes, Ms. Snyder represents them from the inception of litigation before governmental agencies through the Federal and state trial and appellate courts.

Named one of “50 on the Fast Track” by The Legal Intelligencer and The Pennsylvania Law Weekly, Ms. Snyder is an award-winning lecturer for the American Bar Association and serves on the Executive Committee of the Temple American Inn of Court, the Editorial Board of The Philadelphia Lawyer magazine, and the Alumnae Board of The Baldwin School. She received The Baldwin School’s Distinguished Young Alumnae Award, frequently volunteers for Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts and is an Investigator for the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Selection and Retention. Ms. Snyder was recently elected a Fellow to the American Bar Foundation, for her outstanding achievements and dedication to the welfare of her community and to the highest principles of the legal profession.

Ms. Snyder received her law degree from Villanova University School of Law and her B.S. degree, with honors, from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business. She is admitted to practice law in the Federal and State courts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.