Biography
Alice DeTora is a member of the Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group and focuses her practice on employer counseling in all areas of employment relations law, including discharge and discrimination issues, personnel policies, immigration, workplace health and safety, and wage and hour issues. She represents a wide array of employers, ranging from Fortune 100 and Global 500 Companies to nonprofit health care organizations and educational institutions to manufacturers, with a focus on compliance and training. Alice regularly counsels boards of directors and senior management with respect to sensitive executive personnel issues, such as sexual harassment, misappropriation of funds, and drug dependency. In addition, she provides counseling on and negotiation of separation agreements for high-risk employee terminations.
Alice also represents employers in related administrative proceedings before federal and state agencies. She is a frequent speaker before business and law groups on employment law issues. In addition, she provides management training on a wide variety of topics, including sexual harassment, hiring and firing techniques, immigration basics, I-9 compliance, and wage and hour laws. Alice has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in the area of Labor Law - Management since 2006. She has also been selected to the Connecticut Super Lawyers list from 2006 to 2018.
Prior to joining Robinson+Cole, she served as a law clerk on the Connecticut Supreme Court.