Alejandro Valle

Partner

Indianapolis

(317) 686-9800
Alejandro_Valle@gshllp.com

Biography
Education & Bar Admissions
In the News

Biography

Alejandro Valle has extensive experience with employment and commercial matters. His experience includes trial, appeal, mediation, and arbitration, in the areas of employment law, premises liability, contract disputes, and non-competition agreement enforcement. Mr. Valle’s clients have included manufacturers, restaurants, staffing services, nursing homes and other assisted living/health care facilities, retail stores, governmental and quasi-governmental agencies, hotels, auto dealerships, distributors and service providers in a variety of industries, and other entities and individuals.

Mr. Valle’s employment law experience includes both pre-litigation and post-lawsuit phases. He has defended employers in a wide range of employment matters, including alleged race, sex, disability, age and military status harassment and/or discrimination cases (Title VII, Section 1981, ADA, ADEA, USERRA), FMLA and COBRA disputes, ERISA matters, wage and hour/FLSA disputes, state law workers compensation retaliation cases, and other related state law matters, including defamation, “blacklisting”, “whistleblower” retaliation and infliction of emotional distress claims, as well as litigation related to enforcement of favorable arbitration or non-compete agreements. He has handled cases alleging same-sex sexual harassment and state-law sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation (California law). Mr. Valle has worked with his employer clients to review, draft, and train management regarding various employment policies, including harassment and other types of policies.

Mr. Valle’s employment litigation experience includes non-competition agreement enforcement; summary judgment dismissals of ADA disability discrimination, Title VII gender, religion and race/national origin discrimination and retaliation claims, and FMLA claims; favorable rulings from the EEOC and state agencies with respect to charges brought under Title VII, the ADEA, the ADA, and corresponding state civil rights laws; handling AAA arbitration matters; and confirmation of a favorable NASD arbitration award in a race/national origin discrimination and retaliation matter. Mr. Valle is experienced in handling matters under USERRA and EPA, as well as claims for interference with employment/business relations and unemployment insurance appeals.

He has obtained several favorable summary judgment rulings for employment matters in federal court, and for commercial matters in state court (Indiana), resulting in the dismissal of a variety of claims against his clients. His first-chair trial experience includes a defense verdict in a jury trial for a retail client in a premises liability case.

Mr. Valle is fluent in Spanish. He is a member of the Indiana State Bar Association and Indianapolis Bar Association. He has served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Board of Directors for Indianapolis-based Connect2Help, and currently serves on the Finance Council of St. Monica Catholic Church in Indianapolis.

Mr. Valle received a B.A. in Spanish, with a minor in History, from the University of Virginia and a J.D., cum laude, from the Indiana University-Bloomington School of Law. Mr. Valle is admitted to practice in Indiana, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.