Cardelle Spangler
Managing Partner, Internal Affairs
Over her 25-plus-year career, Cardelle has concentrated her practice on employment relations litigation and counseling matters. She has significant experience representing clients in the medical device, pharmaceutical, food service, financial service, and transportation industries. Cardelle is Winston’s Managing Partner for Internal Affairs.
Key Matters
Cardelle’s recent significant litigation matters include:
- Representing five members of the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team (USWNT) in a landmark action before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) accusing the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination on the basis of gender. The matter helped garner the firm the designation of “Law Firm of the Year” for Sports Law in the 2018 edition of U.S. News & World Report – Best Law Firms.
- Successfully prosecuting motions for temporary injunctive relief on behalf of major pharmaceutical and medical device company.
- Achieving substantial victory for a medical device company in a jury trial in federal court against claims of sex and pregnancy discrimination.
- Successfully defending a major restaurant chain against allegations of minimum wage, overtime and pay stub violations under the FLSA and Illinois state law.
- Prevailing on a motion to dismiss all claims against the independent fiduciary to a major airline’s ERISA-covered plans in a class action lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duty under ERISA.
- Successfully defending a major airline in a two-week jury and bench trial in federal court against claims of retaliatory discharge.
- Achieving substantial victory for consulting firm in a three-week jury trial in state court against tort and discrimination claims.