Overview
Susan Huber helps clients navigate employment disputes and compliance issues. She counsels employers on a variety of employment and human resources concerns, including discrimination and harassment claims, wage and hour compliance, hiring and termination, employee accommodations, executive compensation, noncompetition agreements, employment eligibility verification, and policy development and administration. Susan routinely advises clients on employment issues arising in the context of complex mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. She also assists clients in internal and governmental investigations and provides employment law training to managers and employees to help reduce litigation risk.
Before joining Robinson Bradshaw, Susan earned a Master of Library and Information Science. Her library experience makes her an effective and creative researcher in complex matters. Susan also served as a law clerk for federal judges at the trial and appellate courts, gaining insight into strategies for successful pre-trial, trial and appellate practice.
Experience
- Advises employers across various industries in employment compliance, decision-making, documentation, and dispute avoidance and resolution.
- Advises private and public companies regarding employment issues arising from mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and divestitures.
- Represents private equity funds and their portfolio companies with employment and human resources concerns, including employment due diligence; employment and incentive compensation agreements; noncompetition agreements; hiring and firing; and policy review, development and administration.
- Serves as outside general employment counsel for a national health care corporation.
- Advises employers in developing and maintaining sound employment policies and practices.
- Advises employers in matters pertaining to accommodation and compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act and other federal and state laws.
- Advises employers in cases alleging discrimination in violation of Title VII and other federal and state laws.
- Defends employers against charges of discrimination brought before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- Business North Carolina, Legal Elite, employment, 2023
- The Best Lawyers in America, litigation - labor and employment, employment law - management, 2018-26; Charlotte Employment Law - Management Lawyer of the Year, 2021
- North Carolina Super Lawyers, employment and labor, 2021-25; Rising Star, 2013-19
- Benchmark Litigation, Labor & Employment Star, 2019-23; Top Litigator Under 40, 2017-19
Affiliations
Professional Affiliations
- Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Fellow, 2025
- Mecklenburg County Bar, Labor & Employment Section, Chair, 2017-18; Vice Chair, 2016-17
- American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Legal Committee, 2013-22
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Education
Wake Forest University, J.D., magna cum laude, 2007, James and Marie Mason Scholar; Order of the Coif; Editor-in-Chief, Wake Forest Law Review, 2006-07
University of South Carolina, M.L.I.S., Library and Information Science, 2004
Duke University, B.A., 2001, Benjamin Newton Duke Scholar
Bar Admissions
- North Carolina
Clerkships
- Law Clerk, The Honorable Mary Beck Briscoe, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit, 2008-09
- Law Clerk, The Honorable N. Carlton Tilley Jr., Middle District of North Carolina, 2007-08