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Teleicia J.R. Dambreville, Esq. serves as Director, Managing Counsel – Employment for Burlington Stores, Inc., a Fortune 500 company of more than 70,000 employees, with over 1000 locations throughout the continental United States. In her role as in-house employment counsel, she manages Burlington’s employment litigation portfolio, including administrative proceedings, federal and state litigation, and alternative dispute resolution. Dambreville develops litigation strategy, oversees outside counsel and handles all aspects of the arbitral process under Burlington’s early dispute resolution program. Dambreville is also responsible for leading cross-functional teams and providing rapid, practical, business-oriented legal advice regarding all areas of employment law, employee relations, and sustainable diversity, equity and inclusion strategies to internal clients enterprise-wide. Dambreville also chairs Burlington’s DEI Corporate Council, where she leverages her employment law experience to develop and implement DEI initiatives impacting corporate employees. 

Prior to joining Burlington’s in-house legal team, Dambreville was a member of the Labor, Employment, Benefits, and Immigration Section at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC’s Philadelphia Office. Dambreville’s national employment law practice encompassed various aspects of litigation and proactive counseling. She has extensive experience representing management in employment litigation matters, including single-plaintiff discrimination cases, class and collective actions and traditional labor disputes. 

Dambreville earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI where she was a student-athlete competing on the Women’s Track & Field Team (2006 – 2010), and her law degree from The Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law in University Park, PA where she was among 13 young professionals awarded the 2019 Penn State Alumni Association Alumni Achievement Award and the 2023 Law & Equity Alumni Award. She is a member of the bar in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Dambreville serves on the board of directors for the Philadelphia Diversity Legal Group Alumni Association, Penn State Law Alumni Society, Providence Center, the Association of Corporate Counsel of Greater Philadelphia, and the National Employment Law Council.