Profile Description

Michelle Caiola is an accomplished employment discrimination attorney at Phillips & Associates. She skillfully handles all facets of litigation, from inception through successful resolution, and is dedicated to a client-focused practice.

As a Senior Trial Attorney for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Michelle expertly handled individual and class-action lawsuits pertaining to sexual harassment, race, national origin, age, and disability discrimination in the workplace. Among the many notable cases from her years at EEOC, she led a high-profile glass-ceiling sex discrimination lawsuit against Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley, which settled for $54 million. She also played a key role in litigating a large precedent-setting sexual harassment suit against Mitsubishi, a car manufacturing plant in Illinois, which settled for $34 million, and an important class-wide age discrimination suit against a major retailer, which settled for $3.5 million. Michelle was awarded EEOC’s highest honor, the EEOC Chair’s Organizational Award, three times