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Kimberley D. Neilio’s practice focuses on a range of litigation matters, with an emphasis on employment matters. Kimberley’s employment practice is concentrated on the representation of management in the areas of discrimination, harassment, retaliation and employment-related torts in federal and state courts. She has also represented employers in administrative proceedings before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, state departments of labor and state civil rights agencies. In addition, Kimberley has wide-ranging experience resolving employment-related claims via mediation.

Kimberley’s experience as in-house counsel for DaVita Medical Group and Comcast Cable give her insight into the employment issues faced on a daily basis by her clients. As in-house counsel, Kimberley frequently supported her Human Resource and management clients on workplace investigations, accommodations, pay practices and discipline, among other things. She also provided employment law training to employees and employment law support on health care mergers and acquisitions. As both an in-house and law firm lawyer, Kimberley strives to develop relationships with her clients so that she can provide practical advice on day-to-day matters, as well as when conflicts arise.

Colorado joins a small group of states with paid family and medical leave insurance programs. On Nov. 3, 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 118, the Paid Family and Medical Leave Initiative (PFML), which creates a state-run paid leave insurance benefit for Colorado employees. The PFML program, which exempts employers with nine or fewer employees, requires…

On July 14, 2020, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed SB20-205, known as the “Healthy Families and Workplaces Act” (the Act), into law. The law is an overhaul of Colorado’s paid sick leave statutes. It requires employers to provide paid sick leave to employees under various circumstances. In addition to addressing general paid sick leave,

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