Jeanne C. Miller is a highly effective mediator and arbitrator with expertise resolving class action, commercial, employment, executive compensation, whistleblower, medical malpractice, civil rights, and securities matters. She has mediated and arbitrated a wide variety of claims between contentious parties since joining JAMS as a full-time neutral in 1993.
Representative Matters
- Breach of contract based on change of control of corporation and resulting diminution of duties and responsibilities of corporate officer
- Breach of contract claim for unpaid commissions due pursuant to advertising sales contract
- Claim against insurance carrier for long-term disability benefits under employer disability policy
- Claim that discharge was race discrimination, not for falsification of records as charged
- Claim that discharge was retaliation for whistleblowing on insider trading activities; employee claimed protected by CEPA and federal statute
- Counter claim by employer for unfair competition and theft of proprietary information related to the manufacture and sales of wares used in the hotel industry
- Disabled employee working from home claim of discrimination in distribution of work resulting in lowered production and pay
- Discharge claims against multinational company based in Iraq
- Employee sought unpaid commissions and company countered for damages caused by employee’s recruitment of fellow employees to move to another company and take proprietary information
- ERISA claim for long-term disability benefits against healthcare facility
- Executive compensation claims including incentive, bonus, and stock option plans
- Five-party action for damage to leased equipment at a construction site
- FLSA/Wage-hour class action claim of unpaid overtime by national mortgage company
- FMLA benefits claim by mother of disabled child
- Medical school professor claimed his research and lack of funding grants was the result of sabotage by colleague
- Multi-party claims of discrimination based on race, gender, and hostile environment against computer supplier company
- National origin and age discharge claim against major research firm
- Post-acquisition dispute whether discharge of former seller was “for cause”
- Privacy concerns related to use of employer’s computer for personal use
- Race discrimination claim by discharged executive director of not-for-profit organization
- Reverse discrimination claim of sexual harassment of male executive by female secretary
- Sexual harassment, retaliation, and discharge claims against three co-owners of a professional sports association
- Whistleblower protected by Sarbanes-Oxley statute claim of retaliation
