Jody A. Mooney

Jody A. Mooney is a Senior Associate with the firm where she focuses her practice in the areas of labor and employment law.

Attorney Mooney brings a deep background in litigation and employment/labor law to the firm, including experience as a staff attorney at the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) representing unions and District employees in employment matters, arbitrations and labor negotiations.  She has extensive trial experience and has argued before the Superior Court of Pennsylvania. She is also admitted to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court of New York, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and the U.S. District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania.

Most recently, she served as Assistant Corporation Counsel IV for the City of Syracuse, New York, where she was part of the labor contract negotiation team for the following units/departments: police, fire, deputy fire chiefs, AFSCME Local 400 (primarily water department, parks department and department of public works), CSEA (primarily secretarial), AFSCME Middle Managers and AFSCME Crew Leaders. In addition to bargaining contracts for each of those departments, she handled all disciplinary grievance arbitrations, Division of Human Rights complaints, EEOC complaints, unfair labor practice charges, daily HR issues, and served on the Labor-Management Committee and the Healthcare Coalition.

Ms. Mooney is a former law clerk for the Honorable Arnold C. Rapoport, United States Magistrate Judge. She has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer Rising Star.

She received her B.A. in Psychology from Allentown College of St. Francis De Sales where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, and earned her Juris Doctorate from Temple University – James E. Beasley School of Law. She attended college and law school in the evening while working full-time as a litigation paralegal.

BAR ADMISSIONS

• Pennsylvania
• New York
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of PA
• U.S. District Court, Middle District of PA

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS

• Pennsylvania Bar Association
• Bar Association of Lehigh County