Washington, D.C.-based Labor & Employment and OSHA / Workplace Safety boutique law firm Conn Maciel Carey LLP is pleased to announce that Beeta B. Lashkari has joined the firm as an attorney in its Washington, D.C. office.

Ms. Lashkari, a former attorney-investigator at the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), has extensive experience handling government investigations and is equipped to defend clients in an array of matters before federal, state, and local government agencies, including OSHA 11(c) and whistleblower retaliation claims and EEOC investigations and enforcement actions.

Ms. Lashkari will assist the Labor and Employment practice group in advising and representing clients in a wide-range of inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions, including those from the EEOC, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the CSB, and state and local employment agencies.  In addition to her work with the Labor and Employment practice group, Ms. Lashkari will assist the OSHA Workplace Safety practice group in advising and representing clients in a wide-range of inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions before federal OSHA and state OSH agencies.

“We are thrilled to have Beeta join our growing niche practice and look forward to utilizing her government investigation experience to the benefit our employer clients,” said Kara M. Maciel, Chair, Labor & Employment Practice Group.