VERITA - Key Persons
Dara graduated with high honors from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology. She received her J.D. from Temple University, where she was a member of the Temple Law Review and authored a published Comment on the issue of the standard of liability for student-against-student sexual harassment. While in law school, Dara was a judicial intern for the Honorable Raymond J. Broderick, Senior Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, where she drafted published Federal Supplement memoranda regarding ERISA issues of first impression. Dara is licensed to practice law in both Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Dara practiced labor and employment law for over a decade. She was in private practice with boutique law firms in Philadelphia and the Philadelphia suburbs where she worked alongside labor and employment attorneys previously with large law firms. She also practiced labor and employment law at one of the largest employment law defense firms in the United States.
While in private practice, Dara represented both large and small employers in arbitration, before local administrative agencies, and in litigation before state and federal courts in employment matters that included, without limitation, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation under federal and state laws. She also provided employment advice and counseling on personnel administration, practices, policies, and employee handbooks.
For several years Dara organized and served as a lecturer in employment law for a program offered to the public through the Philadelphia Bar Association. Dara has also co-authored several articles that were published in the written materials for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's Annual Northeast Regional Employment Law Institute, as well as which were published in connection with other employment law continuing legal education seminars.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- President
- Member of 100 Women Who Care Chester County
Marie earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Delaware and a J.D. degree from The American University, Washington College of Law. She is admitted to the bar in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
After a Judicial Clerkship in the New Jersey Appellate Division for the Hon. Warren Brody, Marie began her career in private practice as a general litigator. After several years, she started specializing in labor and employment law, litigating all types of employment-related claims on behalf of employers, including discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblower, retaliation, defamation, breach of contract, restrictive covenant, and wage and hour claims.
Marie also provided employers with advice, counseling and training on a variety of subjects, such as performance counseling, managing a unionized workforce, investigating and resolving complaints, affirmative action, diversity, disability accommodation, compensation, terminations, employment contracts, and downsizings. In addition, she developed and reviewed employment manuals, policies, contracts, and procedures.
After a number of years in private practice, Marie went in-house at a financial services giant in New Jersey. While there, she transferred to the company's Philadelphia-area office.
In 2005, Marie founded VERITA, LLC in response to the growing demand for neutral investigators as both in-house and outside employment attorneys searched for alternatives to conducting investigations themselves out of concern for becoming fact witnesses. This demand, along with the steady growth of outsourced Human Resources services as companies trimmed their workforces, has helped VERITA, LLC's niche business thrive and grow in an extremely competitive business climate.
In addition to her work at VERITA, LLC, Marie is on the Advisory Board for Seton Hall Law School HR Law Certification, and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Marie is also a member of 100+ Women Who Care Chester County.
Nancy DuBoise is a native New Yorker. She did her undergraduate work at Cornell University, where she received a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations. She returned to the New York City area to get her law degree at Brooklyn Law School.
Nancy has practiced law for more than two decades, always with a concentration in labor and employment law. She began practicing in New York City, working with both a small and large law firm. She gained experience litigating employment discrimination cases, and represented plaintiffs as well as defendants in such matters. With a desire to move in-house, Nancy left New York City for upstate New York where she spent several years working for a large manufacturing company, first as an in-house attorney and later moving into a labor relations role.
She relocated to the Philadelphia area initially in 1993, but left in 1999 to explore the mid-west. She spent five years in Ohio working for an auto manufacturing company as an in-house employment lawyer before returning (again) to the Philadelphia area. Her experiences both in Pennsylvania and in Ohio exposed her to work in a variety of settings, including government, higher education, financial services and manufacturing. In these various roles, she became skilled in conducting internal investigations, representing clients before state and federal fair employment practices agencies, responding to union organizing campaigns, and developing and facilitating training. Her experiences have included in-house legal roles as well as eight years spent in the Human Resources department of a university. In her HR role she concentrated on employee and labor relations issues, including the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements. She was also responsible for recruitment and hiring for the university.
Nancy is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and New York.
Suzanne graduated from Colgate University with a B.A. in history. She received her JD from Benjamin Cardozo School of Law.
Suzanne is an experienced and skilled attorney who specializes in employment and higher education law. Most recently, Suzanne was Counsel at one of New Jersey's largest and prominent law firms, where she was a member of the firm's Employment Law Department for more than a decade. While in private practice, Suzanne represented a broad range of New Jersey, New York, and national employers. She defended wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment, whistleblower, retaliation, violation of non-compete agreements, and wage and hour claims in state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration. Suzanne also counseled employers on all phases of the employment relationship, and routinely conducted both privileged and non-privileged investigations for a wide variety of public, private, and educational institutions.
Suzanne was selected as a New Jersey Super Lawyer Rising Star (2010-2019). She is admitted to the bar in New Jersey and New York.