Lawyers / Professionals

 
Amy R. Worley       
Partner
434 Fayetteville Street, Suite 2600
P.O. Box 27507 (27611)
Raleigh, North Carolina 27601
T: 919.755.6570
F: 919.755.6613
aworley@mcguirewoods.com
 

Ms. Worley focuses her practice on labor and employment, general commercial and financial services litigation. She partners with employers to help them safely navigate the waters of modern state and federal employment law and regulation, including but not limited to, matters involving protection of trade secrets and proprietary information, non-competition agreements, hiring, firing, discipline, discrimination, wage and hour, workplace safety and regulation, harassment, workplace privacy and e-technology issues, reductions-in-force, defamation, retaliation, whistleblowers, family and medical leave, disability, and reasonable accommodations. She has handled employment discrimination, wage and hour, ERISA, civil rights, securities, and personal injury litigation. She has tried cases in state and federal court, and has represented clients in binding arbitrations, state administrative hearings, and before state and federal courts of appeals.

Ms. Worley's practice also includes reviewing and drafting employment policies and counseling clients on day-to-day regulatory and compliance issues related to employment law. She also conducts training on state and federal employment law for client management, legal and human resource teams. She is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education and human resources classes.


Representative Matters
  • Select Labor & Employment Experience
    • Represent clients in administrative proceedings at the North Carolina Office of Administrative Hearings and Appeals, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration, the North Carolina Department of Labor, and the North Carolina Employment Security Commission.
    • Train client management on compliance with federal and state employment laws.
    • Review and draft client employment policy manuals and handbooks.
    • Negotiate and draft employment and severance agreements.
    • Secure and defend against temporary restraining orders to enforce non-competition agreements.
    • Bring and defend trade secret actions.
    • Coordinate and provide client education regarding employment-related e-discovery issues.
    • Defend clients against abusive unemployment filings.
    • Conduct employee fraud investigations, and draft confidential internal audit committee reports.
    • Assist with WARN compliance.
    • Conduct and supervise employment-related due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.
    • Provide employment law litigation risk analysis.
    • Follow federal and state legislative trends, and identify potential issues for clients.
  • Select Business Litigation Experience
    • Represented client in multinational securities fraud litigation with several hundred million dollars in dispute.
    • Conducted countless depositions, including those of financial industry and damages experts.
    • Supervised litigation involving international and domestic product liability and product supply chain break down matters.

Practices & Industries
Honors
  • Named One of North Carolina's "Legal Elite," Business North Carolina, 2012
  • 2005 North Carolina Governor's Award for Volunteer Service
  • Mercer University George Woodruff Award, Law School Class Valedictorian
  • Mercer University Lawson Award, Outstanding Undergraduate with a Degree in English
  • Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Previous Experience
  • Member, Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC, Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Associate, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter, P.A., Charlotte, North Carolina
  • Law Clerk, the Hon. Anthony A. Aliamo, U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Georgia

Publications
Speaking Engagements
  • Most Recent
    • Breakfast Briefing, "FLSA and Wage and Hour Trends," February 25, 2006
    • "Offensive and Defensive Use of Experts in Employment Litigation," North and South Carolina Labor & Employment Law Update, Charleston, South Carolina, October 24, 2009
    • "Overview of North Carolina Employment Law," Fundamentals of Employment Law Continuing Legal Education Seminar, Grandover Resort, Greensboro, North Carolina, June 5, 2009

Certifications
  • Certified Mediator, North Carolina

Professional Affiliations
  • North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys
  • North Carolina Bar Association
    • Continuing Legal Education, Chairperson, Labor & Employment Section, 2009-2010

Civic Affiliations
  • Former Vice Chair, Regional HIV/Aids Consortium
  • Former Board Member, Community Health Services Board
 

EDUCATION

Mercer University School of Law, Macon, Georgia, J.D., 2000

  • Valedictorian

Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, B.A., summa cum laude, 1997

 
 

ADMITTED

North Carolina 2002

Georgia 2000