Shannon V. Loverich
Attorney
Birmingham Office
280 North Old Woodward Avenue, Suite 400
Birmingham, Michigan 48009
sloverich@kohp.com
P: 248.645.0000
F: 248.645.1385
Biography
Ms. Loverich has provided counseling and litigation support for Fortune 500 and many smaller organizations in the automotive, retail, marketing, and other industries. She has provided preventive employment counseling and defended clients in matters involving the full spectrum of employment claims, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, workplace torts, and breach of contract.
Prior to joining Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton in January 2001, Ms. Loverich managed a Human Resources team for a Fortune 500 company that was responsible for a 1000-employee manufacturing organization. She has first-hand experience with many of the daily processes and issues facing today’s HR professionals (e.g., compensation and succession planning, performance management, hiring and recruiting, employee counseling, disability and other leaves, and transition planning for reducing old or staffing new facilities).
Ms. Loverich also worked as an in-house employment attorney at an automotive company, where she represented the enterprise and its employees in state and federal courts, and provided preventive counseling on various employment matters including employee terminations and discipline.
Some of her representative engagements have included:
- Handling sexual harassment and other investigations of employee misconduct.
- Assisting executives with employment contracts.
- Preparing employee handbooks, agreements, policies, and similar materials for start-ups and other small companies.
- Representing a broad range of clients, efficiently and cost-effectively, in administrative proceedings before federal and state governmental agencies.
- Being a member of the litigation team that defeated class certification concerning wage and hour claims for a national retailer and age- and race-based claims for an automotive company.
- Obtaining summary judgment for an international cosmetics company in a sexual harassment and retaliation case brought by a terminated employee.
- Obtaining dismissal of a multi-plaintiff national origin failure-to-hire discrimination case based on an alleged connection to terrorist attacks.
Ms. Loverich graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1995. She graduated with honors from Michigan State University in 1991 with a degree in Materials and Logistics Management.
Bar and Court Admissions
Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Memberships and Activities
Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
State Bar of Michigan
