Susan Hastings formerly headed the Labor & Employment Practice Group. She currently serves on Squire Sanders’ global board. She has been listed in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers each year since 2006, The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 and in Ohio Super Lawyers since 2004. For the last five years she has been listed as one of the top 50 women lawyers in the state by Ohio Super Lawyers. She represents private and public sector employers in all facets of labor and employment matters including personnel decisions, executive contracts, reductions in force, collective bargaining, arbitration and administrative hearings before federal and state agencies. Susan is also an experienced trial lawyer in federal and state courts, having successfully defended a range of employment litigation matters including claims brought under the Equal Pay Act, Title VII, the ADA, the FMLA, the ADEA and actions brought under comparable state and common laws for employment discrimination, wrongful discharge and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

Susan is also experienced in the area of education law, representing boards of education throughout Ohio in the areas of collective bargaining, contracts, special education, student discipline, Public Records Act, Open Meetings laws, ethics and constitutional law.

Susan is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of the American and Ohio Bar Associations, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Ohio Council of School Board Attorneys and National School Boards Association. She serves on the executive committee of the Ohio Management Lawyers Association and is a director on the board of trustees for both the Great Lakes Theater Festival and the Berea Children's Home and Family Services. She is a member of the 2008 class of Leadership Cleveland and an adjunct faculty member at Kent State University.