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Carol A. Mager
Carol A. Mager is an employment, ERISA and class action litigator. Her practice includes employment discrimination, civil rights and ERISA litigation on behalf of employees and complex employment and commercial class actions. She also has an active practice as an arbitrator and mediator of employment and commercial disputes and as an advisor on matters of employment and education law. After serving as a partner, and practice group co-chair of two large Philadelphia defense firms, in 1992 Ms. Mager co-founded an all female litigation and labor law boutique firm devoted primarily to representing individual employees and investors. She became of counsel to Console Law Offices in October 2008.
Litigation Background and Notable Cases - Class Cases
- Representation of plaintiffs in individual actions and class actions brought under the various statutes prohibiting sex, race, age & disability employment discrimination against major corporations in the financial, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors as well as representation of defendant corporations in the same business sectors, the not-for-profit sector and educational and critical care institutions; and
- Business tort: non-competition and business tort advice and litigation, including injunction actions in the health care, financial and software development sectors.
- Donaldson, et al. v. Exelon Corporation, et al. (E.D.Pa.) race discrimination on behalf of white male employees, represented plaintiffs
- Crespo, et al. v. Citizens Financial Group, Inc., et al. (E.D.Pa.) representative age discrimination action
- Aaron, et al. v. Century Indemnity Company, et al. (American Arbitration Association) severance pay claims of 82 former employees
- Koebert, et al. v. PECO Energy Company, et al. (Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas) bonus compensation and PA Wage Payment and Collection Law action, represented plaintiffs
- Huber, et al. v. Taylor, et al. (W.D.Pa.) legal malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty class action, represented plaintiffs
- Kaminski, et al. v. First Union Corp. (E.D.Pa) representative age discrimination action, represented almost 200 opt-in plaintiffs)
- Osgood, et al. v. Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc., et al (D.NJ) race discrimination on behalf of white employees, represented plaintiffs
- Rudolph v. Adamar of New Jersey, Inc. (D.NJ) race discrimination on behalf of white employees, represented plaintiffs
- Feret, et al. v. First Union Corporation (E.D.Pa.) ERISA action, represented plaintiffs
- Royal v. Aramark and Moilan (E.D.Pa.) race discrimination action, represented individual defendant
- Williams v. HBE Corp. (E.D.Pa.) race discrimination action, represented defendant
- Bunnion v. Conrail, et al. (E.D.Pa.) ERISA and ADEA action, represented plaintiffs
- Johnson v. Pullman-Standard (D.Minn.) ERISA action, represented defendant
- Dept. of Public Welfare v. The Budd-UAW Consolidated Plan (E.D.Pa.) represented defendant
- Murphy v. The Employee Pension Plan of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance Co. (E.D.Pa.) ERISA action, represented plaintiffs
- Nedd (Abromovage) v. United Mine Workers (3d Cir. 1984) pre-ERISA pension action, represented defendant
- Co-Counsel for relator, Van-A-Care of the Florida Keys, in Medicaid fraud litigation relating to the prices charged by pharmaceutical manufacturers to state governmental agencies for drugs covered by Medicaid.
Bar and Court Admissions
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
Memberships
- American Arbitration Association Commercial Panel since 1983
Education
- University of Pennsylvania Law School , 1973
- University of Michigan - B.A. with distinction, and honors in American Studies
Special Honors
- Ms. Mager is an elected Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers (1997-) and Chair of its Third Circuit Admissions Committee (2009-)
- Named to the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list (2004-2009) by Philadelphia Magazine
- Named to the TOP 50 Female Pennsylvania Lawyers list by Philadelphia Magazine
- Named to the TOP 100 Philadelphia Lawyer list by Philadelphia Magazine
- Named one of 50 Leading Female Pennsylvania Lawyers by American Lawyer Media/The Legal Intelligencer
- Recognized as a leading employment litigator by inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2007
- Past Chair of American Bar Association Section of Litigation, Employment and Labor Law Committee
- Past Chair of Philadelphia Bar Association Employment and Labor Law Committee