Zara H. Shore
Counsel
zshore@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Labor & Employment
- Employment Discrimination/Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Advocacy
- Wage & Hour/Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Litigation & Counseling
- Pro Bono
- Class Actions
- Executive Disputes & Agreements
- Labor & Employment Issues in Restructuring and Corporate Transactions
Biography
- Focuses on complex employment litigation and counseling.
- Extensive experience advising employers on wage & hour, discrimination, restrictive covenant and executive disputes.
- Provides employment counseling on a range of labor & employment issues, including issues arising in corporate transactions.
Zara is a counsel in the firm’s labor & employment practice. Her practice focuses on complex employment litigation, investigations and client counseling involving the following:
- Class and collective action lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and counterpart state wage & hour laws.
- Allegations of discrimination, harassment and other employee misconduct.
- High stakes employment contractual disputes.
- Labor & employment issues arising in corporate transactions.
During law school, Zara was an editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform and she served as a student attorney for the Michigan Innocence Clinic.
Zara was a member of Akin’s 2016 Summer Associate Class.
EducationJ.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2017
B.A., University of Michigan, with distinction, 2014
J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2017
B.A., University of Michigan, with distinction, 2014
Bar AdmissionsDistrict of Columbia
Maryland
District of Columbia
Maryland
Recognitions
- Akin’s labor & employment practiced named as Law360 Employment Practice Group of the Year four times in seven years, including in 2009, 2013, 2015 and 2016.
- Akin’s sports practice named as Law360 Sports Practice Group of the Year in 2016.
Affiliations and Public Service
- Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, High Honors
- Law Clerk, Public Defender Service, District of Columbia
