Sheena R. Hamilton concentrates on employment litigation and internal investigations. Primarily, Sheena defends public and private employers in state and federal courts and before administrative agencies nationwide. She leads strategy handling all aspects of litigation through trial and appeal. She also handles sensitive, high-stakes internal investigations for corporations, public entities, and educational institutions, bringing experienced judgment to matters that demand independence, credibility, and strategic clarity. Her focus is helping prevent and address concerns through comprehensive workplace, whistleblower, ethics, and Title IX investigations. She is uniquely qualified to offer solutions and investigative findings are positioned to withstand regulatory, judicial, and public scrutiny.
During her tenure as the City Counselor, Sheena served as the chief attorney for the City of St. Louis, overseeing its Civil Law Department which housed more than 80 civil servants. In that role, she represented the City’s elected and appointed officials along with its boards, commissions, departments, and agencies – including St. Louis Lambert International Airport, the St. Louis Development Corporation, and the Metropolitan Police Department. This role deepened her executive leadership experience and broadened her exposure to a wide variety of complex civil and class action litigation, legislative review and enforcement, and complex investigations across a large, decentralized organization subject to overlapping regulatory and public accountability frameworks.
Sheena regularly speaks and writes on emerging legal issues. An author of more than 20 articles in publications such as Missouri Business and St. Louis Lawyer, Sheena also has been quoted as an authority on legal matters by The New York Times, Law360, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), and the ABA Journal.
Early in her career, she clerked for the then-Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.
