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Giovanna Tiberii Weller

Giovanna Tiberii Weller

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  • Labor & Employment

Education

  • University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., 1991 ~ with honors
  • University of Connecticut, B.A., 1987 ~ cum laude

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  • Connecticut

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  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut

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Giovanna Weller is Co-leader of Carmody’s Litigation practice, Co-chair of the Labor & Employment group and leads the firm’s Employment Litigation practice. Giovanna is a trial lawyer with several decades of experience in counseling CEOs, senior management, and boards of directors of public and private businesses of all sizes. 

Giovanna has successfully defended many significant employment cases in federal and state courts, including discrimination, trade secret and non-competition claims, whistleblower, as well as numerous cases before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and the federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. She has successfully argued appeals before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Connecticut Supreme Court and the Connecticut Appellate Court. Her clients include large and small employers, manufacturers, schools, utilities, and insurers. Giovanna regularly trains management personnel on a wide variety of employment related topics.

Giovanna regularly advises heads of private schools, educational institutions and their trustees on legal issues of particular interest educational institutions, including employment, governance, mandated reporting, student disciplinary issues and litigation matters. She is also a member of the firm’s product liability team and defends product liability cases in both state and federal courts through the United States.

Before joining Carmody, Giovanna served as Clerk of the Energy and Public Utilities Committee of the Connecticut General Assembly.

“Giovanna Weller acts for academic institutions and a range of emplyers in matters such as discrimination and whistle-blower suits.”
– Chambers USA 2023

“A great legal strategist and a talented advocate with excellent, clear-eyed judgment.”
– Chambers USA 2022

“Giovanna Tiberii Weller has a significant reputation as one of the state’s top labor and employment litigators.”
– Benchmark Litigation 2022

“Giovanna is an extraordinary practitioner who knows when to push and when to play nice.”
– Chambers USA 2021

“Her ability to relate to clients, judges and juries is unparalleled. She has an innate ability to feel her client’s case and effectively communicate that feeling to judges and juries. She is definitely a go to litigator.” 

  • In-House Counsel for global producer of specialty chemical products.

Affiliations

  • Fellow, American Bar Association

  • Fellow, Connecticut Bar Association

  • Member, Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society

  • Connecticut Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section

  • Waterbury Bar Association

Distinctions

  • Top 10 Most Influential Labor & Employment Lawyers in Connecticut 2023, Business Today

  • Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers® in New Haven, Connecticut – Employment Law – Management, 2023

  • Top Tier ranking, Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers, 2017-2023

  • Best Lawyers® – Employment Law and Litigation, 2021-2024, Employment Law – Management, 2024, Labor Law – Management, 2024

  • Future Litigation Star and Labor & Employment Star, Benchmark Litigation, 2020-2023

  • Ranked in Chambers USA Guide – Labor & Employment, 2022-2023

  • Top 25 Women Lawyers in Connecticut, Connecticut Magazine, 2009, 2011, 2018-2022

  • Connecticut Super Lawyers® – Employment Litigation Defense, 2007-2022

  • Top 50 Women Lawyers in New England, Super Lawyers®, 2019

  • New England Super Lawyers® – Employment Litigation Defense, General Litigation, Employment & Labor, 2007-2019

  • AV Preeminent, Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings

  • Waterbury Young Lawyers’ Award, 2003

  • Appointed by Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court to serve as member of the Appellate Rules Advisory Committee, 2004-present

  • Judicial Law Clerk for Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Robert I. Berdon, 1991-1992

  • Editor, International Law Journal, 1990-1991

Community

  • Board of Trustees, Independent Day School, 2006-2015
  • Board of Directors, Midstate Medical Center, 2012-2015
  • Member, Connecticut Women’s Council
  • Board of Directors, United Way of Greater Waterbury, 2002-2011

Experience

  • Successful lead counsel in jury trial of sex discrimination and retaliation case involving current employee.

  • Obtained defense verdict after a jury trial involving a claim of breach of contract brought by a former student against a large private university.

  • Successful lead counsel on appellate team that secured employer-friendly federal appellate court decision providing novel interpretation of state jurisdictional statute in favor of employers with out-of-state former employees.

  • Outside employment litigation counsel for several companies, including utilities and regional bank.

  • Enforced covenants not to compete and non-solicitation agreements in state and federal courts.

  • Obtained injunction and sanctions on behalf of herbal remedies company against former employee who had violated covenant not to compete and misappropriated trade secrets.

  • Obtained summary judgment on behalf of employer in two matters in federal court brought by former employees alleging disability and sexual orientation discrimination claims.

  • Presented customized, in-house training programs in several states for large manufacturing client.

Carmody Lawyers Ranked in More than 30 Areas of Law in Best Lawyers in America 2024

August 17, 2023
Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey has received more than 90 accolades across over 30 areas of law and across all its offices in Connecticut, in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® 2024. Forty-two Carmody lawyers are named to the ‘Best Lawyers’ list and ten lawyers are listed
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Top 10 Most Influential Labor & Employment Lawyers in Connecticut 2023 by Business Today

July 21, 2023
Giovanna Weller is named by Business Today as one of the Top 10 Most Influential Labor & Employment Lawyers in Connecticut for 2023. Giovanna is Co-leader of Carmody’s Litigation practice, Co-chair of the Labor & Employment group and leads the firm’s Employment Litigation practice. Giovanna is a trial lawyer with
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Carmody Lawyers Named to The Best Lawyers in America 2023 List

April 05, 2023
Carmody is pleased to announce that 39 attorneys have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2023. In addition, Giovanna Tiberii Weller and William J. Hennessey Jr. have been named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in New Haven, CT and Stamford, CT for Employment Law and Land Use & Zoning
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Supreme Court rules that highly compensated employees eligible for overtime pay if paid daily

February 27, 2023
On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, that a highly compensated employee paid exclusively on a daily rate basis (as opposed to a weekly basis) did not satisfy the “salary basis” test and was therefore not exempt from the
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Carmody Litigation Team Named as ‘Litigation Standout’ firm 2023

January 26, 2023
Carmody's Litigation team is named to The BTI Consulting Group's 'Litigation Standout List 2023.' BTI's list, featuring some of the largest law firms in the US and internationally, is based on research where ‘top legal decision makers identify the firms best suited to meet their most pressing litigation needs.’ Commenting on this accolade,
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