JOSEPH & ASSOCIATES - Key Persons
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- Environmental Law Group, Member
- Litigation Group, Member
- Professional Corporation
- Professional Corporation, 1996 to 2001
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- Counsel to Numerous Fortune 500
- Founding Partner in the Law Firm of Schröder
Ms. Schroder is a founding partner in the law firm of Schröder, Joseph and Associates, LLP (SJA), where she practices management side labor and employment law. For the last seven years she has been ranked as the only woman in the Top 10 Attorneys in Upstate New York and for over a decade she been ranked as one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in Upstate New York by New York Super Lawyers. She is listed in Best Lawyers in America and she is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell.
Ms. Schroder is counsel to numerous Fortune 500 companies, including those in the top 10. She is recognized annually in "Who's Who among Western New York Lawyers" for Labor and Employment Law (changed to The Legal Elite of Western New York), and she was a Business First, 40 under Forty Honoree, a Leader (Professional) Nominee and the recipient of the Society for Human Resource Management's award for Outstanding Human Resource Professional. Fifteen years ago, Ms. Schroder was honored by the Western New York Chapter of the Women's Bar Association for the State of New York as the recipient of the Hon. M. Delores Denman Award for Lifetime Achievement.
In addition to her law practice, Ms. Schroder is a Cattaraugus County Legislator and she has been a medical professional for well over a decade, serving as an Emergency Medical Technician for the Franklinville Fire Department, and as a certified instructor for the American Heart Association and for Cattaraugus County in CPR/AED and First Aid. She and her husband Mark Heberling own and operate a heritage and exotic poultry farm in the Southern Tier.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner in the Law Firm of Schröder
Ms. Joseph is a founding partner in the law firm of Schröder, Joseph & Associates, LLP. Ms. Joseph has been providing employment and labor services, as well as complex litigation services to private and public sector clients for over thirty-six years. Her practice includes representation of clients in employment class actions and she has provided these services not only in Western New York but also in the Southern District of New York as well as in other States where she has acted as lead counsel pursuant to pro hac admission to these courts. Ms. Joseph also represents clients in the areas of discrimination, harassment and other employment litigation, including enforcement of non-compete and confidentiality agreements and handles commercial and business litigation. Ms. Joseph is also trained and qualified as a FINRA arbitrator. Ms. Joseph has also provided pro bono services to organize and create not-for-profit corporations and foundations and has assisted these organizations in grant administration.