Overview

Madeline advises clients on labor and employment matters in the context of complex transactions, including conducting acquisition-related due diligence and risk assessment. She also counsels companies regarding a wide range of employment law issues, including discrimination, wage and hour compliance, restrictive covenants, and reductions in force. Madeline regularly drafts executive employment and separation agreements, as well as employee policies.

Madeline has been recognized by Chambers USA for Labor & Employment in D.C. in 2026, with references noting that “Madeline frequently brings extensive expertise to clients on the employment aspects of large M&A transactions,” that she “possesses exceptional client service and is very sophisticated on the business matters she works on” and that she “has worked on so many complex transactions and provides excellent counsel and client service.”

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Thought Leadership

Publications

Waivers of Whistleblower Claims After Dodd-Frank, New York Law Journal (Oct. 21, 2013) (co-author).

Affirmative Action in Employment, Thomson Reuters News & Insight (Apr. 11, 2013) (co-author).

Note, Deactivating the Mousetrap: Entrapment By Estoppel as a Defense to Federal Felon-in-Possession Charges, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 655 (Nov. 2010). 

Recognition

Recognized for Labor & Employment in D.C., Chambers USA, 2026

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2017, District of Columbia
  • 2015, Missouri
  • 2012, New York

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of LawJ.D.summa cum laude2011

    Cardozo Law Review, Symposium Editor

    Order of the Coif

    Dean’s Distinguished Scholar

    Cornelius W. Wickersham, Jr. Award for Constitutional Law

  • Lafayette CollegeB.A., Historysumma cum laude2008
    Marquis Scholar