Susan Stobbart Shapiro is a director of Council Baradel. Susan leads the firm's labor and employment practice, and its cyber security and information privacy practice. She has been representing businesses and executives for over 20 years. Susan has extensive experience advising business owners on preventing and defending employee complaints and lawsuits and other business matters including: contract disputes, non-competes and trade secrets, harassment, discrimination and retaliation, wage and hour and wage payment, National Labor Relations Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, employee handbooks, torts, cyber risk, data breach, information privacy and related matters. Susan is certified by the International Association of Privacy Professionals as a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US). Susan has successfully represented her clients in state and federal courts, before administrative agencies such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Maryland Commission on Civil Rights and various professional licensing boards, as well as in alternative dispute resolutions. Susan is regularly asked to speak before business and legal groups such as the American Bar Association, Chesapeake Regional Tech Council, Maryland State Bar Association, and Anne Arundel Bar Association, regarding the intersection of technology and employment law and other legal issues. She is a regular contributor to the Anne Arundel Bar Association's publication, The Barrister , and she tweets and blogs about legal issues facing the employer in today's changing business world.