Colleen represents clients in complex commercial disputes in state and federal courts, including class actions, contract disputes, shareholder activism, employment cases, arbitrations, and enforcement and compliance matters. She helps clients navigate disputes involving discrimination, harassment, employment, separation agreements, and compensation. Her employment practice spans both the employer and employee sides of disputes.

Colleen has experience in both state and federal proceedings and has second-chaired a federal jury trial to verdict.

Colleen’s pro bono practice includes representation of a software engineer in a race-based employment discrimination lawsuit, a small business defending against an alleged former employee in a wage dispute, an asylum seeker facing deportation proceedings, a mother in a child custody proceeding, and a child in a class action against the District of Columbia for mental health services.

Prior to joining Glenn Agre Bergman & Fuentes, Colleen was an associate at Schulte, Roth & Zabel. She also has prior experience at the Department of Labor and the NYS Division of Human Rights.

Colleen has represented:

  • A multi-billion-dollar investment advisement firm in a class action lawsuit alleging numerous private equity investments were a breach of fiduciary duties.
  • A multi-billion-dollar investment advisement firm in connection with an SEC inquiry into employee text messages.
  • An activist shareholder plaintiff in expedited trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery seeking to modify a CEO’s employment agreement.
  • The Walt Disney Company, ESPN, and Hulu LLC as conflicts counsel for third-party discovery in a sprawling antitrust case brought by FUBOTV Inc. in the Southern District of New York with implications for the cable television and streaming industries.
  • A pro bono client seeking asylum in the United States after facing physical violence and threats on his life due to his sexuality and gender presentation in his home country.
  • A software engineer in a trial against his former employers for race-based discrimination under the New York City Human Rights Law, Title VII, and Section 1981.
  • A small clothing business negotiating a wage dispute with an alleged former employee.
  • A former senior private-equity executive in a nine-figure arbitration against his former employer.
  • Sanctuary for Families, Pro Bono Advocacy Award, 2025 (see here).

CREDENTIALS

  • Brooklyn Law School, J.D., cum laude, 2022
  • State University of New York at Geneseo, B.A., magna cum laude, 2017
  • Judicial Intern, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 2021

ADMISSIONS

  • State Bar of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York