Todd J. McNamara graduated magna cum laude from Chaminade College, Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1974. He obtained his law degree with honors form St. John’s University School of Law in 1979. Mr. McNamara was the shareholder in charge of a mid-sized firm’s employment law section for approximately ten years. In 1995, Mr. McNamara opened his own firm, and limits his practice exclusively to employment law matters. He has lectured on numerous occasions, both locally and nationally, on employment law matters.
Mr. McNamara was lead class counsel in Wilkerson, et al. v. Martin-Marietta, the largest age discrimination claim brought within the State of Colorado, for a reported $7.6 million. In LaSelle v. PSCo. Mr. McNamara secured a $2.1 million judgment on behalf of 90 plaintiffs in an ERISA claim. That claim, as well as a companion 151 plaintiff ERISA case, ultimately settled.
Mr. McNamara also secured the first race discrimination verdict in the United States against a real estate franchise for failure to award a sales agency to an African-American in Tyler v. ReMax. He was co-counsel in Vaszlavik v. Storage Tek, a 400-plus plaintiff age discrimination class action, which settled in 2000 for $5 million. Just recently, Mr. McNamara served as co-counsel in another ERISA class action, Piet v. Lontine, which settled for $4.8 million.
Mr. McNamara has served as co-chair of the Colorado Bar Association Labor Law Committee, and is a member of NELA. He is a co-author of Federal Employment Jury Instructions. Todd J. McNamara, P.C. maintains an A-V rating with Martindale-Hubbell and is also listed in Martindale-Hubbell’s Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Law Employment Section and in Chambers- USA, America’s Leading Lawyers.