P. Jason Dejelo - Lawyer in Cleveland, OH

Jason Dejelo maintains a diverse, management-side employment law practice covering the full spectrum of the employment relationship, including counseling clients on hiring, discipline and termination decisions, medical leave, wage and hour compliance, workplace safety, accommodation and internal investigations.

Jason advises clients on compliance with Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the WARN Act and similar state and local laws.

He counsels clients on traditional labor law matters arising under the National Labor Relations Act, including the negotiation and interpretation of collective bargaining agreements, drafting and reviewing personnel policies, drafting employment, independent contractor, non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality and severance agreements, and I-9 compliance counseling. Jason also counsels clients regarding employment and labor-related issues in connection with mergers and acquisitions (both buyer and seller side).

A significant portion of Jasons practice is devoted to employment litigation. He defends employers before state and federal administrative agencies and state and federal courts in claims involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful discharge, state and federal wage and hour laws and leave of absence laws.

Jasons litigation practice also includes representing employers in actions to enforce and defend trade secret and non-compete matters, actions that often involve appearing in court to obtain temporary restraining orders and other injunctive relief as to former employees who violate non-compete, non-solicitation and non-disclosure covenants. Jason also has successfully arbitrated numerous grievances on behalf of employers with unionized work forces in cases involving both disciplinary actions and contract interpretation.

Jason has written and spoken on numerous labor and employment issues, including employee leave rights, I-9 compliance and enforcement, drafting enforceable non-compete agreements, wage and hour compliance, hiring practices and NLRB developments.

Jason previously practiced law at Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP before joining Calfee in 2007.

He is a founding board member and former secretary of the Central Ohio affiliate of the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association.

Jason is a former valedictorian of St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland, Ohio, who, along with his brother Jeff, remain the only set of brothers to have been named valedictorian of St. Ignatius in consecutive years.