Shanon Carson:
CLASS OF 1992
Pennsbury High SchoolClass of 1992
Fairless hills, PA
Dickinson School of LawClass of 2000
Carlisle, PA
Indiana University of PennsylvaniaClass of 1996
Indiana, PA
Pennwood Middle SchoolClass of 1988
Yardley, PA
Gladwyne Montessori SchoolClass of 1986
Gladwyne, PA
Shanon's Story
Shanon J. Carson is a shareholder of Berger & Montague, P.C. and member of the Employment Practices Group, which prosecutes class actions, collective actions and multiple or group plaintiff litigation on behalf of employees whose rights are violated by their employers:
-under federal and state civil rights laws which prohibit employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, age and disability, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (¿Title VII¿), the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (the ¿Pregnancy Discrimination Act¿), 28 U.S.C. § 1981 (¿Section 1981), the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (the ¿Equal Pay Act¿), the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 (the ¿ADEA¿), the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (the ¿ADA¿), and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the ¿Rehabilitation Act¿);
-under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the ¿FLSA¿) and related state fair wage laws for unpaid wages and overtime compensation;
-under the Worker Adjustment and Retaining Notification Act (the ¿WARN Act¿) on behalf of employees who have lost their jobs pursuant to a mass layoff or plant closing; and
-under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (¿ERISA¿), which sets minimum standards for most 401k, pension and health plans in private industry to provide protection for employees in these plans.
Mr. Carson regularly serves as lead counsel in class actions, collective actions and multiple and individual plaintiff cases across the country, and has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of his clients, for example:
-a settlement of $6 million on behalf of a group of African American employees of a Fortune 100 company to resolve claims of racial discrimination, as well as injunctive relief which included significant changes to the Company's employment practices (settled out of court);
-a settlement of $3.5 million on behalf of a group of African American employees of Sara Lee Foods Corp. to resolve charges of racial discrimination and retaliation at its Ball Park Franks plant in Philadelphia, PA (Miller v. Hygrade Food Products, No. 99-1087 (E.D. Pa.));
-a settlement of $2 million on behalf of a class of African American employees of Rochester Gas & Electric Co. to resolve charges of racial discrimination in hiring, job assignments, compensation, promotions, discipline, terminations, retaliation, and the creation of a racially hostile work environment (Bonnette v. Rochester Gas & Electric Co., No. 07-6635 (W.D.N.Y.));
-a settlement of $2,925,000 on behalf of retail loan officers who worked in four offices of Wilmington Finance, Inc. to resolve claims for unpaid overtime wages and related penalties (Chabrier v. Wilmington Finance, Inc., No. 06-4176 (E.D. Pa.)).
Mr. Carson is currently representing employees¿ rights in numerous actions, including as Co-Lead Counsel in Employees Committed for Justice v. Eastman Kodak ...Expand for more
Company, No. 6:04-cv-06098 (W.D.N.Y.), on behalf of a nationwide class of African American Kodak employees alleging a pattern and practice of racial discrimination; and Jantz v. Social Security Administration, EEOC Case No.: 531-2006-00276X, on behalf of a nationwide certified class of employees with targeted disabilities alleging discrimination with respect to promotions. Mr. Carson is also currently prosecuting many wage and hour collective actions seeking unpaid overtime and other compensation on behalf of employees in different jobs around the country, including at meat and poultry plants, at call centers, at fast food restaurants, in white collar jobs, and in the government.
Mr. Carson also represents clients in areas other than employment, including cases involving securities fraud, personal injury and consumer fraud. For example, Mr. Carson served as counsel in a consolidation of wrongful death and other catastrophic injury cases brought against two manufacturers of turkey products, arising out of a 2002 outbreak of Listeria Monocytogenes in the Northeastern United States, which resulted in the recall of over 32 million pounds of turkey ¿ the second largest meat recall in U.S. history. All of the cases settled on confidential terms in 2006.
Mr. Carson also represented a class of investors in a securities fraud class action against the A.T. Cross Company, the manufacturer of Cross pens, and won a significant victory in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, when that Court reversed the dismissal of the Complaint and lessened the pleading standard for such cases in the First Circuit, holding that it would not require Plaintiffs in a shareholder suit to submit proof of financial restatement in order to prove revenue inflation. The case ultimately settled for $1.5 million.
Mr. Carson also serves as counsel to The Multihull Company, Inc., an international distributor of fine yachts and catamarans.
In 2008, Mr. Carson was named as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer - Rising Star. The designation of ¿Rising Star¿ is an honor conferred upon only the top 2.5% of attorneys in Pennsylvania who are 40 or younger.
Mr. Carson believes that all lawyers have a responsibility to render pro bono services and makes his services available to non-profit organizations. Mr. Carson is also active in various professional organizations and is available for speaking engagements concerning class and collective actions, employment law, and other legal issues.
Mr. Carson is a graduate of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania and the Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University. While in law school, Mr. Carson was Senior Editor of the Dickinson Law Review, and also served as a law clerk for the Honorable William W. Caldwell, Senior Judge, United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania.
Mr. Carson is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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