Tara Humma
Partner
Tara Humma is a Litigation attorney who focuses her practice on labor and employment matters. Tara has over a decade of experience representing public and private employers of all sizes in states across the country. Tara represents clients in all phases of employment litigation, from initial pleadings, discovery, and motion practice to trial preparation and appeals. Her experience includes a broad range of litigation matters including, but not limited to, claims brought under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) (including accessibility cases), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), breach of contract cases related to employment contracts and restrictive covenants and various other state and federal employment laws. She represents employers in hearings before administrative agencies, arbitrators, and hearing officers appointed under contractual grievance procedures.
Tara also regularly counsels employers in the application of various state and federal employment laws, civil service regulations, and collective bargaining agreements. Her counseling experience includes providing advice to clients related to issues under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), whistleblower laws, restrictive covenant laws and other state and federal employment laws.
Tara frequently assists clients in drafting and reviewing internal policies and employee handbooks to ensure compliance with both state and federal law including providing advice to clients with multi-state operations. She frequently drafts employment, restrictive covenant, separation and severance agreements for clients. Tara conducts internal investigations for clients related to employee complaints. Tara also participates in due diligence related to employment issues in the context of mergers and acquisitions and reviews deal documents for employment-related issues.
In addition to her experience in private practice, Tara worked in the Office of County Counsel for Camden County, where she represented the county in a variety of litigation matters and prosecuted civil service disciplinary actions before New Jersey’s Office of Administrative Law.
Selected Experience
- Counsels a wide-range of clients on daily employment-related issues
- Drafts and reviews employment contracts and separation agreements
- Drafts group separation plans and agreements
- Provides training to employees of clients on various issues including harassment, discrimination and retaliation
- Successfully wrote and argued for partial summary judgment on plaintiff’s retaliation claim
- Successfully wrote and argued for reconsideration of the partial denial of summary judgment for wrongful termination claim, and wrote and argued the underlying summary judgment motion
- Successfully wrote and argued motions for production of plaintiff’s social media information
- Successfully settled many litigation matters for clients on favorable terms
Speaking Engagements
- Speaker, “Blurred Lines Between Work and Play,” PBI’s Employment Law Institute, July 23, 2020
- Panelist, “Medical Marijuana & Employment,” Norristown, PA, May 14, 2019
Memberships
- Pennsylvania Bar Association
- New Jersey Bar Association
- Camden County Bar Association
