Laura A. Pfeiffer

Laura A. Pfeiffer is a Shareholder whose practice focuses on employment counseling, employment litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. She advises employers on federal, state, and local compliance, wage and hour issues, employee discipline and termination, workplace investigations, leave requests, accommodations, restrictive covenants, and employment agreements. She also helps businesses manage reorganizations, reductions in force, hiring practices, background checks, and employment issues connected to business purchases and sales.

Laura earned a J.D., cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School in 1995, where she served as Director of Environmental Moot Court and worked as a research assistant. She received a B.S. in Economics, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University in 1992. Her academic training supports a practice that combines legal analysis, practical counseling, dispute prevention, and litigation strategy for employers facing complex workplace concerns.

Laura represents clients in employment disputes involving wage and hour claims, discrimination, wrongful termination, breach of contract, non-compete agreements, trade secrets, and retaliation. She has handled administrative proceedings before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Minnesota Department of Human Rights, and similar agencies around the country. Her litigation experience includes federal and state court matters involving employee classification, off-the-clock claims, OSHA retaliation, sales representative disputes, and other employment-related controversies.

Laura A. Pfeiffer is a Certified Labor and Employment Law Specialist through the Minnesota State Bar Association and a Rule 114 Qualified Neutral for mediation. She is also a Rule 8.9 ADR Neutral in North Dakota. Her professional memberships include the American Bar Association, Minnesota State Bar Association, Hennepin County Bar Association, Minnesota Women Lawyers, Society for Human Resource Management, and Federal Bar Association. Her honors include Best Lawyers in America, Minnesota Super Lawyers, and an AV Preeminent peer review rating.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Winthrop & Weinstine, P.A.
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, Minnesota State Bar Association
• Member, Hennepin County Bar Association
• Member, Minnesota Women Lawyers
• Member, Society for Human Resource Management
• Member, Federal Bar Association

Licensed State

• Minnesota

Education

• University of Minnesota Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Arizona State University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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