Germaine Winnick Willett practices in the Firm's Workplace Solutions Group. She focuses her practice primarily on representing and advising employers in employment litigation matters, including assisting clients with employment discrimination, wage and hour, contract, and other employment-related litigation. She also advises clients on a broad range of issues including proper handling of employee complaints, employment termination, employee leave and accommodation issues, reviewing and crafting employment policies, and drafting employment agreements. She also conducts investigations of employee complaints for clients. She has represented clients in Indiana's state and federal courts as well as before administrative agencies. Germaine also represents and advised colleges and universities on both emploment and student-related issues, and conducts employment-related due diligence for the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group.
During the course of her career, Germaine has written numerous articles and prepared presentations for professional associations and seminars on a variety of employment law topics. Germaine also has experience litigating products liability and general tort cases.
Germaine is originally from Cloverdale, Indiana. She received a Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from DePauw University in 1994. She earned her juris doctor, 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.
Germaine 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.