Michele L. Weckerly

Partner Tel: 215-606-6627 (PA) / 856-842-0788 (NJ) Fax: 215-606-6601 (PA) / 856-354-8075 (NJ) Send an Email

After graduating law school, Michele clerked for the Honorable Martin A. Herman of the Superior Court of New Jersey. Thereafter, Ms. Weckerly practiced law at a medium sized Philadelphia firm for five years, concentrating her practice on commercial and employment matters for private entities and homeowner’s associations. At SRST, she has litigated all forms of federal and state commercial litigation and employment and educational discrimination cases involving contract disputes, class actions, age, race, gender, disability, harassment, national origin and religious discrimination matters in workplace and educational environments in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In addition, Ms. Weckerly practices before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights and other similar agencies. Ms. Weckerly has represented a wide range of clients in various private industries, non-profit organizations, homeowner’s associations and public, charter, private schools and school boards.

Ms. Weckerly successfully defended a private school, where as a matter of first impression, a federal court found that a Quaker school was exempt from the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Areas of Practice

Business & Commercial Law
Contracts
Constitutional Law
Discrimination
Employment Law -- Employer
Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employer
Employment Contracts -- Employer
Employment Discrimination -- Employer
Wrongful Termination -- Employer
Litigation & Appeals
Complex Litigation
State Appellate Practice
Professional Liability

Litigation Percentage

100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

New Jersey, 2003
Pennsylvania, 2002
U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 2003
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 2004
U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2004

Education

Rutgers School of Law - Camden, Camden, New Jersey
J.D. - 2002
Law Journal: Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, 2001 - 2002

Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
B.A. - 1997
Honors: With Honors
Major: History/Political Science

Published Works

Religious Perspectives on Stem Cell Research, Rutgers Journal of Law and Religion, New Dev. 56, 2002