For 25 years, Ms. Baumhart has represented employers of all sizes, including many Fortune 500 employers, in employment litigation and appeals as well as in preventive counseling. Ms. Baumhart’s client base has spanned the automotive, publishing, technology, hospitality, education, oil and pipeline, entertainment, media, finance, insurance, and other industry sectors, and has encompassed all areas of employment law. She has successfully defended employers at the trial and appellate levels in class actions and pattern-and-practice cases, as well as in single-plaintiff litigation. Ms. Baumhart also has served as both an arbitrator and an advocate in arbitrated disputes. She has been named by DBusiness magazine as a Top Lawyer in the labor and employment field.

A frequent speaker at employment law seminars and webinars on topics including affirmative action, disability law and the Family and Medical Leave Act, performance appraisal processes, and many other workplace issues, Ms. Baumhart also authored “The Employer’s Right to Read Employee Email: Protecting Property or Personal Prying?” The Labor Lawyer (American Bar Association); and is a contributing author of Employment Law in Michigan: an Employer’s Guide (Institute of Continuing Legal Education) and Employment Discrimination Law (ABA). Ms. Baumhart also served as the first female president of the Federalist Society/Michigan Lawyers Chapter, and the first female Chancellor to Christ Church Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Ms. Baumhart joined the firm’s predecessor, Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton, at its inception in 1997. Previously, she was an employment lawyer with the Detroit-based Dickinson Wright law firm; a judicial clerk to the Honorable James L. Ryan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit; and Employment Litigation Coordinator, Employee Relations Manager, and Government Affairs Representative for EDS in Dallas, Texas and Washington, D.C. Ms. Baumhart earned her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the DeWitt C. Reddick School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated magna cum laude from Wayne State University Law School, where she received numerous awards for writing and scholarship, including the Order of the Coif.