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Molly T. Senger

Molly
Senger

Partner

CONTACT INFO

msenger@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 202.955.8571

FAX:+1 202.530.4209

Washington, D.C.

1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-5306 USA

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PRACTICE

Labor and Employment Class Actions Litigation

BIOGRAPHY

Molly T. Senger is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice Group. In 2020, Ms. Senger was named by Law360  as one of five “Rising Star” employment attorneys nationwide. The list recognizes “attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.” Ms. Senger was similarly selected as a “Rising Star” in Labor and Employment Disputes by The Legal 500 in 2019 and 2020 and by Legal Media Group in 2020.

Ms. Senger has represented clients in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including cases involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, wage-and-hour violations, whistleblowing, race, age, and disability discrimination, and sexual harassment. Ms. Senger has significant experience in defending against employment-related putative class actions and litigating high-stakes executive compensation disputes. She has represented employers in federal district and appellate courts across the country, as well as in arbitration and mediation, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies.

In addition to her litigation experience, Ms. Senger often assists clients in drafting employee handbooks, conducting anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training, investigating employment-related claims pre-litigation, and advising clients on a variety of employment-related issues ranging from sensitive personnel decisions to classifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Recent representative litigation matters include:

  • Currently representing major retailer in putative FLSA collective action (Danford et al. v. Lowe’s Companies, Inc. et al. (W.D.N.C. 2019)).
  • Briefed and argued successful motion to dismiss in confidential JAMS executive compensation arbitration.
  • Defeated two attempts at class certification in a 31-plaintiff sexual harassment lawsuit and secured exclusion of the plaintiffs’ expert’s testimony (Van et al. v. Ford Motor Co. (N.D. Ill. 2019)).
  • Obtained dismissal of putative class action involving breach-of-contract and age discrimination claims (Zoller et al. v. UBS (N.D. Ill. 2019)).
  • Secured affirmance of summary judgment in favor of employer in ADA reasonable accommodation case in the Sixth Circuit (Arndt v. Ford Motor Co. (6th Cir. 2017)).
  • Achieved complete victory on behalf of major financial institution in executive compensation dispute, after a week-long arbitration before FINRA.
  • Obtained partial summary judgment for private equity firm in executive compensation arbitration, after which a favorable settlement was reached.
  • Obtained $750,000 default judgment for pro bono client based on the court’s determination that the defendants had violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act (Lagasan v. Al-Ghasel et al. (E.D. Va. 2015)).
  • Secured dismissal of nine of eleven claims in a putative class action brought by translators employed by a U.S. Government contractor in Kuwait, alleging violations of wage-and-hour laws, breach of contract, and business torts; ultimately obtained voluntary dismissal of the plaintiffs’ remaining claims with prejudice (Global Linguist Solutions, LLC v. Zaklit et al. (E.D. Va. 2014)).
  • Wrote successful Daubert motion to exclude expert testimony in a trade secret misappropriation case, after which the defendants’ counsel withdrew from the case and a default judgment was entered against certain defendants (Dow Corning Corp. v. Jie Xiao et al. (E.D. Mich. 2013)).

Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Ms. Senger worked as an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. She also served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Senger received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and served as a teaching assistant for the First Year Legal Research and Writing Program. During law school, Ms. Senger interned for Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, then at the Circuit Court of Florida, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit. Ms. Senger graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While at Princeton, Ms. Senger was awarded the C.O. Joline Prize in American History for her senior thesis on George F. Kennan.

Ms. Senger is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, and also is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fourth, Sixth and Seventh Circuits.

 

EDUCATION

Harvard University - 2009 Juris Doctor

Princeton University - 2006 Bachelor of Arts

ADMISSIONS

District of Columbia Bar

Maryland Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - February 3, 2021 | Brian Ascher and Molly Senger Named Among LMG’s 2020 Rising Stars Americas
Press Releases - November 16, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Promotes 20 Lawyers to Partnership
Client Alert - October 1, 2020 | Executive Order on Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping
Client Alert - October 1, 2020 | SEC Amends Whistleblower Rules
Firm News - July 6, 2020 | Law360 Names Five Gibson Dunn Lawyers as 2020 Rising Stars
Firm News - July 6, 2020 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2020 U.S. Legal 500
Firm News - July 11, 2019 | Gibson Dunn Ranked in 2019 U.S. Legal 500
Client Alert - January 31, 2014 | 2013 Trade Secrets Litigation Round-Up
Client Alert - January 18, 2013 | 2012 Trade Secrets Litigation Round-Up
Client Alert - January 13, 2012 | 2011 Trade Secrets Litigation Round-Up
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