Margaret A. Matejkovic
Sr. Counsel
Meg has a seasoned labor and employment law mind, with a bent to practical application of the law. Her experience ranges from employment law scholarship; counseling of employers on all aspects of labor and employment laws; representation of employers before state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies; negotiation and drafting of employment agreements; and development and maintenance of affirmative action plans. Additionally, she authors legal materials and teaches seminars both targeted to attorneys and in more employer/employee-friendly formats.
Her role at KWW is exclusively dedicated to provide practical human resource counseling services to employers. She helps employers to develop and maintain positive, proactive workplaces. Her practice includes conducting workplace investigations; offering professional development counseling and coaching sessions for managers, supervisors, and employees; and delivering training on topics such as harassment prevention, leave of absence management, employee selection, and much more.
Meg has applied her unique blend of HR and legal skills to assist employers in a wide range of challenging projects, including the following recent projects:
- Serving as an executive coach for a senior leader of an international manufacturing company;
- Investigating complex allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation for a Fortune 500 company;
- Providing individual coaching and counseling for a newly-promoted manager of a small manufacturing company who failed to address ongoing concerns of unprofessional behavior by his subordinates; and
- Training of nearly 400 HR professionals, managers, and supervisors of an organization employing over 250,000 people on the topics of identifying and addressing professionalism and harassment prevention.
Meg has over 17 years of private practice exclusively representing employers, and she also has in-house HR and employment law experience. She served as Associate Dean for External Programs for The University of Akron School of Law from 2005 until 2013. She continued to serve for eight more years as an adjunct faculty member for Akron Law, teaching a course she developed in 2006 entitled The Human Resources Lawyer. In May 2016 and again in May 2019, she received the Outstanding Adjunct Law Faculty Award.
Meg is also active in professional service organizations.
She served on the national faculty of the Society for Human Resource Management from 2013-2018. She has always been active in the Akron Bar Association, serving as the president of the Akron Bar for a one-year term that ended in June 2017.
Other Personal Background Information and Interests
Meg and her spouse, John, are inveterate travelers with a particular fondness for their visits to Paris. They are “die-hard” fans of the Cavs, Guardians, and Browns as well as Akron Zips’ basketball.
Education
- The University of Akron, B.A. in Business and Organizational Communication
- The University of Akron School of Law, The University of Akron, J.D.
Bar Admissions
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Supreme Court of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
Professional Activities and Recognition
- President, Akron Bar Association, 2016-2017
- Outstanding Alumni Award, The University of Akron School of Law, 2018
- Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Award, The University of Akron School of Law, 2019, 2016
- Fellow, Ohio State Bar Foundation
- Member, Akron Bar Association
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Ohio State Bar Association
- Former Member, Association of Workplace Investigators
- Former Senior Lecturer, The University of Akron School of Law
- Former Member, Society for Human Resources Management
Publications and Presentations
- Practice Pointers: Tips for Those New to Investigations, AWI Journal, December 2018
- Investigation of Requests for Religious Accommodations, AWI Journal, August & September 2016
- Effective Workplace Investigations, Cleveland HR Star Conference, July 2016
- A Conversation about Effective Workplace Investigations, California Society for Human Resources Management Conference, April 2015
- A History of the Akron Law School: 1921 – 1959, Akron Law Review, 2013
- A Tribute to the Honorable Sam H. Bell, Akron Law Review, 2012
- Sincere to One… Employer Challenges in Managing Expressions of Religion in the Workplace, Southwest Regional Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, 2011
- A Conversation about Professionalism, The University of Akron’s Department of Industrial and Organizational Development, 2009
- What is Reasonable Accommodation under the ADA? Not an Easy Answer; Rather a Plethora of Questions, Mississippi College Law Review 67, 2008-2009
- Establishing and Maintaining a Positive Work Environment, Jewish Community Board of Akron, January 2008
- Retaliation in the Workplace: An Overview of the Obvious to the Obscure, Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business, March 2007
Civic/Charitable Activities and Associations
- Leadership Akron Alumni Association:
- Chair, New Community Leader Reception
- Chair, Leadership Development Committee
- Member
- Member, Board of Trustees
- Member, Junior Leadership Akron Justice Day Committee
- The University of Akron:
- President, National Alumni Association
- President, School of Law Alumni Association