Molly T. Senger is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice Group.  Ms. Senger serves as the co-Hiring Partner for the Washington, D.C. office, and is the partner representative on the Associates Committee.

Ms. Senger has represented clients in a wide range of employment litigation matters, including cases involving allegations of trade secret misappropriation, wage-and-hour violations, whistleblowing, race, age, and disability discrimination, and sexual harassment. Ms. Senger has significant experience in defending against employment-related putative class actions and litigating high-stakes executive compensation disputes. She has represented employers in federal district and appellate courts across the country, as well as in arbitration and mediation, and before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other federal and state agencies.

In addition to her litigation experience, Ms. Senger often assists clients in drafting employee handbooks, conducting anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training, investigating employment-related claims pre-litigation, and advising clients on a variety of employment-related issues ranging from sensitive personnel decisions to classifications under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

In 2022, Ms. Senger was selected as one of the Lawdragon 500 Leading U.S. Corporate Employment Lawyers—a list that features the nation’s “top advisors on workforce issues.”  The National Law Journal named Ms. Senger one of its 2021 D.C. Rising Stars—a recognition given to 40 D.C. attorneys who have “proven their mettle where it counts, representing high-profile clients and securing high-dollar victories.”  In 2020, Law360 likewise named Ms. Senger as one of five “Rising Star” employment attorneys nationwide—an accolade for “attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age.”  Euromoney Legal Media Group similarly named Ms. Senger as one of two Labor and Employment 2020 “Rising Stars.”  In addition, Ms. Senger has been recognized by The Best Lawyers® in America since 2022 for Litigation – Labor and Employment, by The Legal 500 U.S. since 2021 as a “Next Generation Lawyer” for Labor and Employment Disputes, and as a 2022 Expert Guides Rising Star.

Representative litigation matters that Ms. Senger has handled include:

• Secured complete dismissal of nationwide wage-and-hour class action on behalf of major retailer; obtained affirmance of dismissal on appeal (Alminiana et al. v. Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC (W.D.N.C. 2020); McPhee et al. v. Lowe’s Home Centers, LLC (4th Cir. 2020)).
• Obtained summary judgment on behalf of employer in whistleblower-retaliation lawsuit; currently defending victory on appeal before the Third Circuit (Price v. UBS Financial Services LLC (D.N.J. 2022)).
• Defended The George Washington University in lawsuit seeking reinstatement of the University’s men’s rowing team; defeated motion for a TRO and motion for a preliminary injunction, after which the case was dismissed (George v. The George Washington University (D.D.C. 2022)).
• Successfully compelled to individual arbitration putative class action involving independent contractor misclassification claims (Finch v. Lowe’s Home Centers LLC (D.S.C. 2021)).
• Briefed and argued successful motion to dismiss in confidential JAMS executive compensation arbitration.
• Defeated two attempts at class certification in a 31-plaintiff sexual harassment lawsuit and secured exclusion of the plaintiffs’ expert’s testimony (Van et al. v. Ford Motor Co. (N.D. Ill. 2019)).
• Obtained dismissal of putative class action involving breach-of-contract and age discrimination claims (Zoller et al. v. UBS (N.D. Ill. 2019)).
• Secured affirmance of summary judgment in favor of employer in ADA reasonable accommodation case in the Sixth Circuit (Arndt v. Ford Motor Co. (6th Cir. 2017)).
• Achieved complete victory on behalf of major financial institution in executive compensation dispute, after a week-long arbitration before FINRA.
• Obtained partial summary judgment for private equity firm in executive compensation arbitration, after which a favorable settlement was reached.
• Obtained $750,000 default judgment for pro bono client based on the court’s determination that the defendants had violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act and the Fair Labor Standards Act (Lagasan v. Al-Ghasel et al. (E.D. Va. 2015)).
• Secured dismissal of nine of eleven claims in a putative class action brought by translators employed by a U.S. Government contractor in Kuwait, alleging violations of wage-and-hour laws, breach of contract, and business torts; ultimately obtained voluntary dismissal of the plaintiffs’ remaining claims with prejudice (Global Linguist Solutions, LLC v. Zaklit et al. (E.D. Va. 2014)).
• Wrote successful Daubert motion to exclude expert testimony in a trade secret misappropriation case, after which the defendants’ counsel withdrew from the case and a default judgment was entered against certain defendants (Dow Corning Corp. v. Jie Xiao et al. (E.D. Mich. 2013)).

Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Ms. Senger worked as an associate at Latham & Watkins LLP. She also served as a law clerk to Judge John D. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Ms. Senger received her law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School, where she was a member of the Board of Student Advisers and served as a teaching assistant for the First Year Legal Research and Writing Program. During law school, Ms. Senger interned for Judge Robin L. Rosenberg, then at the Circuit Court of Florida, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit.

Ms. Senger graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. While at Princeton, Ms. Senger was awarded the C.O. Joline Prize in American History for her senior thesis on George F. Kennan.

Ms. Senger is a member of the Maryland and District of Columbia bars, and also is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and D.C. Circuits.