Marie-Joëlle C. Khouzam
Labor & Employment, Public Law
| Phone 614.628.0811 | Supported by Molly Lounsbury: mlounsbury@cpmlaw.com |
| mkhouzam@cpmlaw.com |
I enjoy meeting clients at their work sites to better understand their business and their needs. 
- Practice focus: Concentrates on representing employers/management in Labor and Employment Law matters, Workers’ Compensation, and Municipal Law. Representation and defense of property owners and property managers in fair-housing discrimination cases.
- Joined Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP in October 1996
- Appointed as City Attorney to Grandview Heights, Ohio, January 2006
- Appointed by U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to serve as mediator
- Member of Ohio Management Lawyers Association, Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association, Columbus Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, American Bar Association. Past Chair of the Columbus Bar Association's Labor & Employment Law Committee and the Community Service Committee
- Currently serves on the Columbus Bar Association's Board of Governors, the boards of Children's Hunger Alliance and St. Stephen's Community House, and Board of Directors of Members First Credit Union; is president of the Grandview/Marble Cliff Area Chamber of Commerce; speaks and writes extensively on employment law topics and creates customized on-site training for companies
- 2008 Northwest Woman of the Year award recipient; consistently listed in Ohio Super Lawyers (Corporate Counsel list, Employment Law list, Top 25 Women in Columbus list); Listed in Best Lawyers in America; Columbus Bar Association Community Service award recipient
- Ohio Diversity Council's 2009 Most Powerful and Influential Women in Ohio award recipient
- Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Bowling Green State University, 1985; attended Georgetown University while working at the U.S. House of Representatives; Fulbright Fellowship, Universität Innsbruck; J.D., University of Toledo, 1991
- Admitted: 1991, Ohio; 1992, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 2004, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
- Enjoys gardening, traveling, reading and movies; Speaks French and German
- Martindale-Hubbell rating of AV® Preeminent™*
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