BETH P.
ZOLLER

Partner
Beth@KSBraniganLaw.com

Attorney-at-Law
Investigator
Trainer
Arbitrator

EXPERIENCE

Beth P. Zoller is an employment law attorney with more than 20 years’ experience. Ms. Zoller prepares and conducts training sessions for employees and supervisors as well as employers and human resources on a wide variety of issues, such as handling workplace complaints, workplace harassment, discrimination, reasonable accommodations, diversity, civility and bystander intervention, implicit and unconscious bias, cultural awareness, performance management, and HR compliance, including HR on Trial, a cutting edge investigation program that helps organizations conduct investigations that will withstand scrutiny in litigation and implement effective investigation practices and protocols.

Beth also serves as an investigator, conducting independent workplace investigations of employees on all organizational levels. She investigates a wide array of employment related complaints with respect to discrimination, harassment, and retaliation for entities of all sizes in a variety of sectors and industries. She further provides advice and counsel on various employment issues related to discrimination, harassment, retaliation, leave, reasonable accommodations, and wage and hour requirements. Beth has experience drafting employee handbooks, workplace policies and procedures, employment contracts and severance agreements, restrictive covenants, non-competes, and non-disclosure agreements. Beth has experience with equal pay audits and complying with rapidly changing pay equity laws. She is also an Arbitrator serving on the American Arbitration Association Employment panel.

Beth frequently writes and speaks on a number of workplace topics including workplace investigations for the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF) and the Association of Corporation Counsel.

Beth currently serves as an Adjunct Law Professor for Seton Hall Law School, teaching courses online for the Master of Legal Studies Program such as Conducting Internal Investigations as well as Workplace Privacy and Managing Legal Issues in the Workplace.

In addition, with respect to investigations, Ms. Zoller serves on the Workplace Investigations Committee of the Executive Board of the New Jersey State Bar Association Labor and Employment Section.  Ms. Zoller is a member of the Investigations Practice Area Committee for as well as the Labor and Employment Practice Area Committee for National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF).   Ms. Zoller is a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI).  Ms. Zoller has also assisted Ms. Branigan who has testified as an expert witness on the efficacy of investigations in the preparation of expert reports.


Speaking Engagements & Publications

Beth has authored many published news articles, blogs, and white papers and has conducted webinars and podcasts on employment law topics. She has been quoted in numerous national publications and HR publications based upon her extensive employment law knowledge. Beth has also been a speaker at various Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Conferences on topics such as diversity and inclusion and rapidly changing federal, state, and local employment law issues.

Articles include:

AAA Panels

  • Arbitrator, Employment Panel, American Arbitration Association

Academic Roles

  • Adjunct Professor, Master of Science in Jurisprudence Program, Seton Hall University School of Law

Leadership, Recognitions & Associations

Community Service

  • Attorney Mentor, NJ LEEP (Law and Education Empowerment Project)

  • Member, Mt. Pleasant Elementary School PTA, Livingston, New Jersey

  • Alumni Interviewer, Cornell University

  • President, Temple Beth Shalom Board of Education, Livingston, New Jersey


BAR ADMISSIONS & EDUCATION

Admitted to Practice

  • State of New Jersey (2000)

  • State of New York (2000)

  • United States District Court. District Court of New Jersey (2000)

  • United States District Court, Southern District of New York (2000)

  • United States District Court, Eastern District of New York (2006)

Education

  • Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, J.D.

  • Cornell University, B.S., Human Development and Family Studies

 

New Jersey Women Law Association
Association of Workplace Investigators
New Jersey State Bar Association