Bio, via American Conference Institute:

JIM PARETTI is Chief of Staff and Senior Counsel to Acting Chair Victoria A. Lipnic of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. As such, he is the Chair’s senior advisor on all legal, enforcement, and policy matters before the Commission, and is responsible for counsel and assistance in the performance of all of her duties as EEOC Chair. Mr. Paretti joined the Chair’s staff shortly after she was appointed as a Commissioner of the EEOC in 2010. Prior to joining the EEOC, Mr. Paretti served as Workforce Policy Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Education and Labor (Republican). There, Mr. Paretti was legal counsel to the Committee’s Senior Republican Member for workforce policy matters, and was responsible for legal and policy oversight of workforce issues before the Committee, including labor and employment laws; health care, pension, and welfare policy; and all matters relating to the Committee’s workforce agenda. Mr. Paretti previously practiced labor and employment law at Choate, Hall & Stewart, one of Boston’s oldest law firms, and later at McDermott, Will & Emery, one of the nation’s largest national law firms.