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Areas of Practice

Firm Management Positions

Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits, Co-Chair

Employment Litigation, Chair

Honors and Awards

Memberships and Affiliations

Interim Chair, 2012, Maryland State Higher Education Labor Relations Board, Member and Vice Chair, 2001 to present (originally appointed by Governor Parris Glendening)

Director, Board of Directors and Member of Executive Committee, University System of Maryland Foundation

Member, Board of Visitors, University of Maryland School of Law

Member, Executive Committee, United Way of Central Maryland Women's Leadership Council

Treasurer, Network 2000

Director, Board of Directors and Co-chair, Women of Excellence Committee, Network 2000

Trustee, Board of Trustees, Living Classrooms Foundation, 2002-2008

Director, Board of Directors, Girl Scouts of Central Maryland, 2008-2009

Member, Editorial Advisory Board, The Daily Record, 1999-2005

Member, Leadership Maryland, Class of 2003 and 2004-present, member, Selection Committee

Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Baltimore School of Law, 1992-1998

Former Chairperson, Labor and Employment Law Section, Maryland State Bar Association

Former Chairperson, Employer-Employee Relations Committee, Tort and Insurance Practice Section, American Bar Association

Former Chairperson, Continuing Legal Education Committee, Maryland State Bar Association

Former Chairperson, Judicial Administration Committee, Baltimore City Bar Association

First President, Baltimore Women's Bar Association

American Bar Foundation

Maryland Bar Foundation

Baltimore Bar Foundation

Education

J.D., University of Maryland School of Law, 1978

  • Editor, University of Maryland Law Review
  • Member, National Moot Court Team

B.S., School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1975

Bar Admission(s)

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Harriet E. Cooperman

Partner
Baltimore
500 E. Pratt Street
Suite 900
Baltimore, MD 21202-3133

Harriet Cooperman, co-chair of the Labor, Employment and Employee Benefits Practice, focuses her practice on representing management in a wide variety of labor and employment law matters. Her clients include domestic and international public and private entities across a broad range of industries, including but not limited to manufacturing, financial services, professional services, healthcare, insurance, legal, consulting, technology, construction, entertainment, wholesale, and retail, as well as governmental entities and nonprofits.

Harriet has litigated numerous labor and employment cases, both jury and non-jury, before courts and administrative agencies around the United States, covering a wide variety of issues, such as non-competition and trade secrets, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, NLRA matters, wage and hour and wage payment, employment torts, and ERISA. In 2007, she appeared as an expert witness on Maryland restrictive covenant law before the High Court of Justice in London, England. Her opinions and analysis were cited by the Judge as being critical to his decision. Harriet regularly provides advice and counsel to management clients on the broad array of labor and employment law issues.

Harriet is the Interim Chair of the State Higher Education Labor Relations Board, and has been a member of the Board since its inception in 2001 and its Vice Chair. She originally was appointed to the Board by Governor Parris Glendening and reappointed to successive terms by Governors Robert Ehrlich and Martin O’Malley. Harriet has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she taught traditional labor law and employment discrimination law. She frequently speaks on various labor and employment topics, and has presented at programs sponsored by the National Labor Relations Board, the National Academy of Arbitrators, the American Bar Association, and other professional and scholarly programs. Harriet also has written extensively on such matters.

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