Amy Turk

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Amy Morrissey Turk is co-chair of McGuireWoods’ consumer products and retail industry team as well as the firm’s multidisciplinary diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practice team. She works on complex class actions and mass arbitrations throughout the country for companies in a variety of industries, most notably the retail, health care, and financial services industries. Amy offers clients a broad spectrum of legal experience gained both as a seasoned litigator for business-focused law firms and as a former assistant general counsel who managed the nationwide employment portfolio of a multibillion-dollar Fortune 150 retail corporation. In that in-house role, she led and directed internal investigations and the company’s litigation strategy in employment matters pending before arbitrators, agencies at all governmental levels, and state and federal courts throughout the United States. She has extensive experience managing nationwide class, collective, and mass claims.

Amy is both a trusted advisor to some of the largest companies in the country and a first-chair litigator who regularly leads high stakes litigation, navigates complicated mass arbitration matters, conducts sensitive investigations, and advises officers and C-Suite executives on compliance and regulatory risk. While her mass arbitration experience spans the commercial, consumer, and employment spectrum, Amy’s litigation practice focuses on employment-related defense, including workplace violence and crisis management, federal and state wage and hour laws (including Private Attorneys General Act representative actions in California), public accommodation matters, hostile work environment and discrimination issues that span all protected classes, and all facets of DEI. While Amy’s practice focuses on litigation-based matters, she understands first-hand the legal, financial, political and publicity challenges clients face when managing litigation risk and that understanding helps inform the legal guidance she provides.