Connie N. Bertram

For over thirty years, Connie has represented employers, boards and individual executives in employment-related matters, including executive employment contract disputes, “business divorces,” and discrimination, retaliation/whistleblower, trade secret, and restrictive covenant matters. She frequently conducts confidential internal investigations concerning C-Suite level executives for boards and employers, including alleged discrimination, harassment, fraud, theft or misuse of company data, discrimination, harassment and code of conduct violations.

Connie has litigated complex contract, harassment, discrimination, whistleblower, trade secret and restrictive covenant litigation across the United States, including claims brought under Sarbanes-Oxley, Dodd-Frank, the False Claims Act and other federal and state employment and whistleblower provisions. Connie has served as lead counsel in some of the most challenging and hotly contested litigation matters in the country. She has the experience and skills to tailor her prosecution or defense to the needs of her clients, from conciliatory to “pit bull.”

A frequent speaker on a variety of labor and employment, litigation and compliance issues, Connie regularly speaks at programs, seminars and training conferences concerning the whistleblower provisions of the FCA, SOX, and Dodd-Frank, pay equity issues, sexual harassment, and whistleblower policies and investigations, and the development and use of forensic data in litigation. She presents at national conferences and conventions concerning these and other topics, including American Bar Association Annual Conferences. She has been quoted on these and other topics by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Legal Times, Compliance Weekly, Law360, Corporate Counsel, Bloomberg Law, Bloomberg Business Week, the Association of Corporate Counsel, and Human Resources Executive.

Connie is the author of Sarbanes-Oxley: A New Whistle Stop for Whistleblowers published in the Labor Lawyer. She authors chapters regarding employment law for the D.C. Bar Manual and is the author of Chamber’s Regional Guide: Employment Law – District of Columbia. For over fifteen years, she has been the editor of the leading blog in the country concerning employment and compliance developments. Connie has been named a Top Employment Lawyer by Washingtonian, Benchmark, Legal 500, Washington Business Journal, Legal Times and National Law Journal. She has been ranked by Chambers & Partners USA, the preeminent attorney research and ranking company, since 2009.