Practice Areas: Employment Litigation, Employment & Labor, Business Litigation; view more
Licensed in Colorado since: 1995
Education: University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Selected to Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2024 Details
An employment law attorney practicing law in the state of Colorado, Meredith A. Munro is the founder of the Denver-based legal firm Munro Law LLC. She brings over two and a half decades of experience to the table and represents plaintiffs in federal and state courts and fights aggressively to protect their employment and civil rights.
Majoring in economics and English, Ms. Munro graduated from Rice University in 1984. She pursued her legal studies at the University of California, Hastings College of Law and earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence in 1991. At the university, she was honored for her accomplishments and academic excellence with multiple awards and was also a member of the Order of the Coif, a national honorary society for law school graduates.
After graduating from law school, Ms. Munro clerked at the United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit for a year. She worked as an attorney in two private law firms for almost 10 years, before she joined the United States Securities and Exchange Commission as a securities enforcement attorney.
Along with trying cases to verdict in courtrooms across the state, Ms. Munro settles issues and disputes outside the court using alternate and cost-effective methods, including mediation and arbitration. She is experienced in litigating cases in both government and private settings, and always approaches her clients with the utmost compassion and professionalism.
Ms. Munro’s unwavering commitment to obtaining justice for all, regardless of their background and financial situation, doesn’t end with her day-to-day legal activities. She has written and published several articles and engages in lectures and conferences pertaining to her practice. She is a member of the Colorado Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Association, where she is President Elect, the Colorado Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Employment Lawyers Association (sitting on the Judicial Nominating Committee). Her pro bono work includes serving on the Board of Colorado Legal Services (sitting on the finance and audit and policy & regulations committees).
Practice areas
Employment Litigation: Plaintiff, Employment & Labor: Employee, Business Litigation, Civil RightsFocus areas
Americans with Disabilities Act, Employment Law - Employee, Non-Compete Agreements, Retaliation, Trade Secret, Wrongful Termination
- 40% Employment Litigation: Plaintiff
- 40% Employment & Labor: Employee
- 10% Business Litigation
- 10% Civil Rights
First Admitted: 1995, Colorado
- Recipient, Super Lawyer, 2020 - 2021
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyer, 2020
- Order of the Coif, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
- Colorado Attorney Mentoring Program Mentor, a program of the Colorado Supreme Court, 2018 to present
- Faculty of Federal Advocates
- Alliance for Professional Women
- Member, “Time’s Up” Legal Defense Fund
- Colorado Legal Services, Board of Directors, Finance & Audit and Policies & Regulations Committees
- Signatory to Federal Trade Commission, along with The Open Markets Institute, the AFL-CIO, Service Employees International Union, and over 60 others. The petition calls on the FTC to use its power to issue a federal rule to ban worker non-compete clauses nationwide, March 2019
- Speaker: 2019 Business Law Institute – Colorado Bar Association – Business Law & Taxation Law Sections. Employee Mobility and the Protection of Proprietary Business Information in Colorado
- Speaker: 2019 Employment Law Conference, Co-sponsored by the Labor & Employment Law of the Colorado Bar Association Colorado
- Speaker – 2019 Colorado Bar Association-CLE Employment Law Conference in Vail, Colorado. Jumping Ship: Employee Mobility and Restrictive Covenants in Colorado
- Speaker – 2020 Strafford CLE Webinar. “Me Too” Evidence in Employment Litigation: Pursuing Admission or Exclusion of Propensity Evidence
- Speaker – 2021 Colorado Bar Association – Employment Law Conference. Discovery Deep Dive
- Author, Note, Deregulation of the Practice of Law: Panacea or Placebo, 42 Hastings Law Journal 203, 1990
- Co-Author, Securities Law, National Law Journal, August 7, 1995
- Just what is Sexual Harassment and Sexual Discrimination? Hollywood v. The Real World. May/June 2018
- Common Evidentiary Trial Issues in Employment Law: From Getting the #MeToo Evidence In to Keeping the Collateral Source Evidence Out. 2019. CTLA, Trial Talk, vol. 67 Issue 4, June/July 2018
- Presentation: Colorado Bar Association Presentation - Labor & Employment Law Section, Speaker, 2019
- Board of Directors of Colorado Legal Services
- Colorado Bar Association, Labor & Employment and Civil Rights Sections
- The National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), Judicial Nominating Committee
- Colorado Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Association (PELA)
- Women’s Trial Lawyer Association
- Colorado Trial Lawyers Association
- Rice University, Major: Economics and English, Honors: with Honors
Selections
- Super Lawyers: 2020 - 2024
