Linda M. Correia is president of the National Employment Lawyers Association. She is a civil rights attorney who has represented employees in employment discrimination, retaliation, and whistleblower cases for 29 years. A founding member of Correia & Puth, PLLC, Ms. Correia has focused her practice on cases involving sex discrimination, sexual harassment, race discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, disability discrimination, and retaliation, and Title IX, under state and federal civil rights statutes. She also counsels employees on executive compensation agreements and in severance negotiations.
Ms. Correia is a nationally recognized Title IX lawyer who has extensive experience advocating for coaches and other employees who have lost their jobs in retaliation for their advocacy for gender equity for their student athletes and other students. She also has represented students and employees who have faced sex discrimination or sexual harassment or retaliation at school, and helped her clients hold educational institutions accountable for their failure to ensure that discrimination did not interfere with their right to equal educational opportunity.
