Profile

Patti Bartis advises clients on employment litigation, employment counseling and commercial litigation. Ms. Bartis is national coordinating counsel for the employment litigation of Laboratory Corporation of America (LabCorp). She also advises LabCorp on a wide variety of employment issues with respect to its employees throughout the United States.

Before entering law school, Ms. Bartis worked in the area of corporate finance.

While at the University of North Carolina, she was executive editor of the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation.

Currently, Ms. Bartis is a member of the Parker Poe Diversity Committee.

Experience Highlights

Ms. Bartis works with clients in the following areas:

• Compliance and litigation concerning Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the North Carolina Wage & Hour Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Drafting, interpretation and litigation of employment agreements, covenants not to compete and confidentiality agreements
• Employee professional conduct and other training
• Wrongful discharge actions
• Personnel actions such as hiring, evaluations, discipline and termination
• Preparation and revision of employee handbooks and policy manuals
• Protection of trade secrets actions

News

• Forty-Two Parker Poe Attorneys Named as 2012 NC Super Lawyers
  January 20, 2012

Events & Speaking Engagements

• E-merging Legal Issues in Today’s Electronic Workplace
  May 27, 2009
  Hill, Chesson & Woody Employee Benefit Services
• 2005/2006 Federal and North Carolina Employment Law and Legislation Update
  April 27, 2006
  Triangle Society for Human Resource Management
• Workplace Violence in North Carolina, Panelist
  May 17, 2005
  Raleigh-Wake Human Resources Association
• Electronic Discovery – The Impact, Expense and Risk of Electronic Discovery in Litigation
  May 1, 2005
  Hill, Chesson & Woody Employee Benefit Services
• The New FLSA Overtime Rules
  October 1, 2004
  North Carolina Association of County Finance Officers (NCACFO) Fall Conference

Publications

"Independent Contractor or Employee?" Labor & Employment, vol. 21 no.1, October 2002

Memberships

• Marbles Kids Museum
  Board of Directors, 2010-2013
• Contemporary Art Foundation
  Board of Directors, 2010-2013
• Society for Human Resource Management
  Member
• Wake County Young Lawyers Division
  Executive Counsel, 1997-1998