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Value-Added Services
Developing innovative pricing structures and alternative fee agreement models that deliver additional value for our clients.
Advancing professional knowledge and offering credits for attorneys, staff and other professionals.
Helping clients respond correctly when a crisis occurs.
Providing our clients with legal, strategic, and practical advice to make transformational changes in their organizations.
Leveraging law and technology to deliver sound solutions.
Delivering seamless service through partnerships across the globe.
Leveraging leading-edge technology to guide change and create seamless, collaborative experiences for clients and attorneys.
Industry-leading conferences focused on affordable housing, tax credits, and more.
Providing actionable information to support strategic decision-making.
Teaming with clients to advance sustainable projects, mitigate the effects of climate change, and protect our planet.
Offering a range of investment management and fiduciary services.
Bringing together companies and investors for tomorrow’s new deals.
Offering fresh insights on cases that are delayed, over budget, or off-target from the desired resolution.
Courtroom-ready lawyers who can resolve disputes early on clients’ terms or prevail at trial before a judge or jury.
Creating positive impact in our communities through increasing equity, access, and opportunity.
Partner / Chief Talent Officer
Stacie Collier is a member of Nixon Peabody’s Labor & Employment group. She previously served as the firm’s Professional Personnel partner and is its first-ever Chief Talent Officer. In this role, Stacie focuses on growing and enhancing the firm’s legal talent, driving diversity and inclusion, and developing and cultivating its people and distinctive culture.
In her law practice, she is a co-chair of the firm’s cross-disciplinary Diversity Equity and Inclusion Strategies group, assisting clients in assessing their DEI strategies and navigating their challenges and priorities in this space. She also exclusively represents management in the resolution of employment-related disputes before state and federal courts and administrative agencies.
While I have experience performing all aspects of L&E work, today my practice has three primary focuses.
My overarching goal is to help our clients foster positive employee relations and keep them out of litigation in the first place. To that end, I have provided strategic advice and counsel focusing on a preventative approach for over 25 years, including fielding client questions, reviewing policies, and drafting employment agreements. The DEI Strategic Services team is a prime example of this type of impactful work. I also have provided thousands of hours of managerial and employee training nationally on myriad topics, including harassment prevention; diversity, equity, and inclusion; accommodation and managing leaves; and supervisory skills.
When defending the inevitable claims, I partner with our clients to achieve the desired result with the appropriate blend of aggressiveness and strategy. I regularly assist clients to prevail on motions to dismiss and for summary judgment, and in dismissing claims before a number of administrative tribunals. I have a depth of experience in litigating claims of discrimination and harassment, with an emphasis on workplace harassment. I have successfully prosecuted and defended a number of non-compete and other restrictive covenant cases over the years.
As the firm’s Professional Personnel Partner, and now its Chief Talent Officer, I have a unique perspective that I can bring to bear in my client-facing role. It allows me to take my real-world experience and provide even more practical advice and solutions for our clients.
The pandemic has opened up new opportunities for us to work together. It also presents L&E challenges in the ways our clients can best recruit, retain, maintain safe and legal working environments, and avoid costly claims. I try to help employers “see around corners” on how their workforce approaches work and on how judges and legislators are addressing these major shifts.
This article on the evolving business practices of corporate lawyers features commentary from Rochester Corporate partner Eric Tanck, who discusses various aspects of his practice, his nontraditional path to Big Law, and the expectation that more clients will seek support with DEI initiatives. On the last point, the article mentions NP’s DEI Strategic Services, including a quote from co-leader of that group and NP Chief Talent Officer Stacie Collier.
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Rhode Island
Syracuse University, B.A., magna cum laude (Phi Beta Kappa)
University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D.
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