Cynthia Sass

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Sass Law Firm - Representing Employees in Workplace Disputes

Experience: 37 years

Arbitration & Mediation and Employment Law

Best Law Firms - Employment Law for Individuals, since 2011, Top Lawyers, since 2017 and 19 others

Awards 21

Experience 37y

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Cynthia N. Sass has been practicing law in Florida over 30 years. She formed the Sass Law Firm in 1993 to exclusively focus on representing public and private sector employees in employment disputes. The mission of her firm is to provide the client with an honest assessment of each case, ensure each client is educated on the options and remedies available to them through the law, and strategize with the client to accomplish their goals. In doing so, her firm takes an individual approach to each case, advising clients as to the potential results, costs of litigation and other means of resolving their employee disputes. In order to provide her clients with the best service, Ms. Sass makes it a priority to keep current on the trends affecting employee rights, changes in rules and agency positions, and the most recent applicable case law.

Cynthia is often asked to write or speak on employment law-related topics, especially those related to representing employees. She has been the southeast Regional Editor of the BNA Bloomberg treatise, Employment at Will, a State-by-State Survey and its annual supplements since 2011. She was appointed by the Florida Supreme Court and served on the Standard Jury Instructions Committee – Civil Cases, a Special Committee of The Florida Bar, the committee responsible for drafting the standard state jury instructions on spoliation, private sector whistleblowing and the Florida Civil Rights Act. Cynthia Sass is also a successful litigator, with published opinions, including an affirmed Eleventh Circuit opinions against a government entity. Ms. Sass holds various national and regional leadership positions, along with committee appointments, and is an active Federal Mediator/Florida Supreme Court Mediator Circuit Civil.

Cynthia Sass has been honored by various local, state & national independent sources including The Best Lawyers in America® in Employment Law – Individuals.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

Florida

Since 1987

Professional Experience

1993 - Current

Sass Law Firm

Shareholder Attorney

Practicing labor and employment law, advocating for employee rights, and representing individuals in workplace disputes involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, whistleblower protection, wage and hour issues, employment contracts and severance agreements, including non-compete provisions and arbitration agreements

1990 - 1993

Alley and Ally, Chartered

Associate Attorney

Practicing labor and employment law representing solely management

1987 - 1990

State Attorney of the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit

Assistant State Attorney

Prosecuted felony, misdemeanor, juvenile and traffic cases

Education

1987

University of Richmond

J.D. (1987) | Law

1984

Smith College

B.A. (1984)

Awards

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Best Law Firms - Employment Law for Individuals, since 2011

U.S. News & World Report – Best Lawyers®

Top Lawyers, since 2017

Tampa Magazine

Best Lawyers® in Employment Law for Individuals, since 2007

The Best Lawyers in America®

The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, Individually, since 2005

Martindale-Hubbell

Top 100 Trial Lawyers, since 2014

The National Trial Lawyers

Florida Super Lawyers® in Employment Law, since 2006

Thomson Reuters

The Bar Register of Preeminent Women Lawyers, since 2011

Martindale-Hubbell

Who’s Who® in American Law, since 2009

Marquis Who’s Who

AV Rated, since 2005

Martindale-Hubbell

Superb 10.0 rating, since 2006

Avvo

Top 50 Women in Florida, 2008-2014, 2016-2017, 2020

Florida Super Lawyers®, Thomson Reuters

year - Cynthia Sass

Women in the Law – Labor and Employment

Best Lawyers®, Business Edition

500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers

Lawdragon

year - Cynthia Sass

Top 3 Employment Lawyers in Tampa

ThreeBest Rated

Legal Elite in Labor and Employment Law, 2005-2012, 2014-2016 and 2018

Florida Trend magazine

year - Cynthia Sass

Lawyer of the Year • Employment Law • Tampa

The Best Lawyers in America®

Clients’ Choice Award, 2015-2017

Avvo

Client Champion Silver

Martindale-Hubbell

year - Cynthia Sass

Top 50 Tampa Bay Attorneys

Florida Super Lawyers®, Thomson Reuters

year - Cynthia Sass

Outstanding Service Award as Chair of the Section

Labor and Employment Law Section, The Florida Bar

year - Cynthia Sass

Outstanding Faculty Member in the Employment Law Trial Skills Program

Stetson University College of Law

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Sass Law Firm 601 West Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Tampa FL 33603 Telephone: (813) 251-5599 Fax: (813) 259-9797

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Experience: 37 years

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Practice Areas

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination

Languages

English: Spoken, Written

Certifications

Federal Mediator / Florida Supreme Court Mediator Circuit Civil

Florida Supreme Court, since 2002

Websites

Sass Law Firm | Representing Employees | Tampa Employment Lawyers

Employee Rights Reporter | Sass Law Firm

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