Monica Delgado

Monica investigates, litigates and counsels clients on employment and labor matters.

Having focused on public health in her education before becoming an attorney, she is a firm believer in upstream prevention. She is a skilled employment investigator, and she enjoys working with and advising clients to identify and mitigate potential future disputes. When disputes do arise, Monica blends strong attention to detail with a commitment to broadly understanding each client’s unique needs to assist them at every stage of litigation before federal and state courts, administrative agencies and other regulatory organizations. Her practice touches employment issues involving harassment, discrimination, retaliation, accommodation, leave, wage and hour, competition, and collective bargaining.

Although she is focused primarily on employment matters, Monica also has successfully advocated for clients in labor-arbitration, commercial-litigation and products-liability cases.

Monica’s active pro bono practice centers on supporting students attending high school while pregnant or with young children. While in law school, Monica earned top pro bono distinction for her medical-legal partnership work with patients at federally qualified health centers, as well as for her immigration work with women and children detained at the U.S.-Mexico border.

• Conducts privileged workplace investigations, DEI audits and culture reviews involving employment issues.
• Counsels organizations on hiring, performance management, downsizing, Title VII, wage-and-hour, whistleblower and restrictive-covenant issues.
• Represents employers in state and federal court litigation and in arbitration.

Education

• University of Wisconsin Law School, J.D., 2021, cum laude
• University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, B.A., 2018, summa cum laude

Admissions

• Utah, 2024
• Minnesota, 2021
• Wisconsin, 2021

Clerkships

• Law Clerk, Honorable Theodora Gaïtas, Minnesota Court of Appeals, 2021-2022

Languages

• Minnesota Super Lawyers^® Rising Star, Employment & Labor, 2025-2026
• Minnesota Super Lawyers^® Women’s Edition Rising Star, Employment & Labor, 2025
• Minnesota State Bar Association North Star Lawyer, 2023
• Phi Beta Kappa, 2018

Professional Activities

• Twin Cities Diversity in Practice, Emerging Leaders Group, Co-Chair, 2026-2028; Member, 2023-Present
• Minnesota Women Lawyers, Member, 2022-Present
• Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association, Member, 2022-Present
• National Employment Law Council, Member and Academy Fellow, Class of 2025

Community

• Twin Cities Diversity in Practice, Director, 2026-Present
• Secondee, Ramsey County Public Defender, 2024-2025
• Director, Standpoint, formerly Battered Women’s Legal Advocacy Project, 2022-2025