Germaine Winnick Willett

Undergraduate School
Bachelor of Arts, DePauw University
Graduated in 1994

Law School
Indiana University School of Law-Bloomington
Graduated in 1998

Professional Experience:
Germaine Winnick Willett practices primarily in the Firm's Employment Litigation Group. She assists employers faced with employment discrimination, wage and hour, contract, and other employment-related litigation in both state and federal court and before administrative bodies. She also represents clients in administrative proceedings before local, state, and federal agencies.

During the course of her career, Willett has written articles and prepared presentations for professsional associations and seminars on a variety of employment law topics. Willett also has experience litigating products liability and general tort cases.

Willett is originally from Cloverdale, Ind. She received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from DePauw University in 1994. She earned her juris doctorate, cum laude, from Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1998. She was a student note editor for the Indiana Law Journal and published a note in the journal titled, "Equality Under the Law or Annihilation of Marriage and Morals? The Same-Sex Marriage Debate." She is a regular contributor to Ice Miller's Informed Employer Briefing.

Willett joined Ice Miller in August 1998. She is admitted to practice in all Indiana state Courts, the U.S. District Courts in the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, and the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Professional Associations:
Member, Indianapolis Bar Association
Member, Executive Committee, Indianapolis Bar Association's Women and Law Division (2011 Chair)
Member, Seventh Circuit Bar Association
Member, American Bar Association

Published In:
"Independent Contractor or Employee? Know the Difference or Pay the Consequences," Sites Magazine, January 2011
"Worker Misclassification December 2010 Update: Independent Contractor or Employee? Know the Difference or Pay the Consequences" Ice Miller Special Bulletin E-Alert, December 16, 2010
"Efforts to Root Out Worker Misclassification Expand," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, May 26, 2010
"U.S. Supreme Court Takes Burden of Proof Off Employers in Age Cases," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, June 24, 2009
"Together Forever or Nothing Left to Lose? The Court of Appeals Broadly Construes 'Good Will' in Non-Compete Agreement," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, May 27, 2009
"Save it for a Rainy Day: Consequences for Destroying Records," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, Nov. 6, 2008
"Defending the FMLA Restoration Case – Is Your Legitimate Business Reason Air-tight?" Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, April 3, 2008
"More than Words - The Danger of Oral Modification to Employment Agreements," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, Jan. 17, 2008
"New Leave Requirement," Informed Employer Briefing Weekly, June 28, 2007
Author, Note Published in Volume 73, Indiana Law Journal, 1997

Reported and Representative Cases:
Hutchison v. Old Indiana Ltd. Liability Co., 714 N.E.2d 789 (Ind. Ct. App. 1999)
Metcalf v. Estate of Hastings, 726 N.E.2d 372 (Ind. Ct. App. 2000)
Zurich American Ins. Group v. Wynkoop, 746 N.E.2d 985 (Ind. Ct. App. 2001).

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