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Tod F. Schleier

Email		tod@schleierlaw.com
Education		Brown University (B.A., magna cum laude, 1973) Arizona State University (J.D., 1976)
Bar admissions		Arizona, 1976 U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1976 U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 1976 U.S. Supreme Court, 1999

Tod F. Schleier has been practicing law since 1976. Tod graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa and with honors from Brown University in 1973. He received his law degree from Arizona State University in 1976 and was a member of the Arizona State University Law Journal. Upon graduating from law school, Tod began working for and eventually became a partner in the firm of Sternberg, Sternberg, Rubin & Schleier. In 1981, he started his own practice. And in the mid-eighties, he began to focus his law practice on representation of individuals in employment related disputes.

Tod was active in forming the Arizona Employment Lawyers Association that consists of lawyers from the Phoenix area who represent employees. He regularly lectures throughout the state on various employment issues including wrongful termination and sexual harassment. Tod has also served on the State Bar of Arizona Sub-Committee for Employment Law Jury Instructions. Tod's long and distinguished career as an employment lawyer was recognized when he was recently inducted to the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Tod has also been continually listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989 and has been "AV" rated in Martindale Hubbell since the late 80s. .

Tod considers his greatest legal victories to be State Dept. of Admin v. Schallock, 189 Ariz. 250, 941 P.2d 1275 (1997) in which he obtained a $2,400,000 verdict in a sexual harassment case that was upheld by the Arizona Supreme Court and Murcott v. Best Western Inc., 198 Ariz. 349, 8 P.3d 1088 (App. 2000), where he obtained a $1,750,000 verdict that was also upheld on appeal.

In addition to handling cases, Tod has also spent the last few years assisting parties in resolving employment-related disputes as a mediator. Tod success as a mediator has been due to his lengthy experience in representing individuals and employers, as well as a strong belief that most employment-related disputes should be resolved short of parties expending significant time and resources on a legal battle.

In 2007, Tod published his first book Deposing & Examining Employment Witnesses as a guide to practitioners covering all aspects of witness discovery and testimony. The book is available from James Publishing at www.jamespublishing.com

Tod is licensed to practice law in the state and federal courts of the State of Arizona, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court.