Attorney Info
Andrea M. Kirshenbaum
Associate
Duane Morris LLP
30 South 17th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103-4196
USA
Phone: +1 215 979 1856
Fax: +1 215 405 3717
Email:
akirshenbaum@duanemorris.com
Andrea M. Kirshenbaum litigates employment discrimination matters, both in court and at the administrative agency level, including matters under the ADEA, Title VII, the FMLA, the ADA, 42 U.S.C. Section 1981, 42 U.S.C. Section 1983, ERISA, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the PHRA. Ms. Kirshenbaum has litigated matters including cases alleging failure to hire, failure to promote, disparate treatment, harassment, retaliation and termination as well as cases alleging state law contract and tort claims and non-compete and employee raiding cases. She also provides counseling to clients. Outside of the employment realm, Ms. Kirshenbaum has litigated several alleged public accommodation discrimination matters. She also has experience litigating FLSA and state wage and hour claims, including experience with collective and class actions.
Ms. Kirshenbaum served as a law clerk to the Honorable Morton I. Greenberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and to the Honorable Harvey Bartle III, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Ms. Kirshenbaum is a 2001 cum laude graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School and a cum laude graduate of Duke University.
Areas of Practice
- Employment Law
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2001
- University of Pennsylvania, M.A., 1998
- Duke University, A.B., cum laude, 1996
Selected Publications
- "Agreements to Arbitrate Employment Disputes: Salley v. Option One," The Legal Intelligencer, August 30, 2007
- "Because of . . . Sex: Rethinking the Protections Afforded Under Title VII in the Post-Oncale World," 69 Albany L. Rev. 139, 2006
- "Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment Law and the First Amendment: Can the Two Peacefully Coexist?" 12 University of Texas Journal of Women and the Law 67, 2003
- "Kolstad v. American Dental Association: The Opportunity for Punitive Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases," 3 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 617, 2001
- "The Vampire That Hovers over North Carolina: Gender, White Supremacy and the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898," 4 Southern Cultures 6, 1998
