Professional Experience:
2004 – Present: Attorney, McCarthy Smith Law Group, PLC.
Practice is exclusively in employment and labor relations law, representing management, in:

  • General employment advice
  • Arbitrations
  • Employment-related litigation
  • NLRB proceedings
  • MERC proceedings
  • EEOC proceedings
  • MDCR proceedings
  • Employee handbooks & personnel policies
  • Defense of wage & hour claims

1996-2004: Attorney, Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Kalamazoo office.

Law School :

University of Michigan, J.D., 1996

Undergraduate:

University of Michigan, B.A., 1991

Memberships:

American Bar Association; Michigan Bar Association; Kalamazoo County Bar Association.

Community Activities:

Food Allergic Friends and Families, 2006-present

  • Founder and President

Amberly Elementary School, APT, 2008-2009

  • Chair, Holiday Art Committee 2008-2009
  • Daddy Daughter Dance Committee, 2007-2008

Junior League of Kalamazoo, 1996-2005:

  • Recording Secretary 2001-02;
  • Board Member, 2001-02
  • Executive Committee Member, 2001-02

Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Stewardship Committee, 2004-2006

  • Christian Education Committee 2006-2008

Kalamazoo Central High School Mock Trial Team, Attorney Coach, 1996-97

Admitted to Practice:

Michigan State Courts (1996); U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan (1996).