Angelina "Lina" R. Delmastro, a partner with Starr Butler, PLLC, focuses her practice on the defense of employment claims. Lina's experience includes: wage & hour class/collective defense and representing employers against discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. She also practices in the areas of commercial litigation and professional liability.

Lina received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 2016 (magna cum laude and Order of the Coif). During law school, she worked as a Student Attorney & Peer Supervisor (Unemployment Insurance Clinic) and Student Attorney (Child Welfare Appellate Clinic).

Lina received her undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame in 2012, cum laude. After law school, she worked for a large Detroit-based law firm.

Practice Areas

• Employment Practices Liability
• Employment and Labor Law
• Professional Liability
• Miscellaneous Errors & Omissions
• Business Torts & Commercial Litigation

Education

• University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 2016
• University of Notre Dame, B.A., 2012

Achievements

• Michigan Super Lawyers - "Rising Star", Labor & Employment, 2022-Present
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business - Labor & Employment, 2024-2025
• The Best Lawyers in America: "Ones to Watch," Labor and Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2024-Present

Admitted to Practice

• All Michigan state courts
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan

Professional Memberships

• State Bar of Michigan
• Washtenaw County Bar Association

  • Co-Chair, Labor & Employment Section, 2019-2023

Publications

• Co-Author, “Last-Minute Changes to Michigan Earned Sick Time and Wage Laws: Effective February 21, 2025,” (February 2025)
• Author, "Let’s Start at the Very Beginning – Drafting Job Descriptions to Minimize Risk,” (October 2024)
• Co-Author, “Employers are Off the Earned Sick Time Clock,” (January 2023)
• Author, "Stop the World – I Want to Get Off! Onboarding and Off-boarding in an Increasingly Mobile and Remote Workforce," (December 2022)
• Author, "#MeToo 5 Years Later – How The States Took Over the Narrative," (May 2022)
• Co-Author, "U.S. Supreme Court Splits the Baby as It Stays the Private Employer Vaccine or Test Mandate but Keeps the Healthcare Vaccine Mandate in Place," (January 2022)
• Co-Author, "Private Employer Vaccine Mandate Moves Forward as Sixth Circuit Dissolves Fifth Circuit's OSHA ETS Stay," (December 2021)
• Co-Author, "The Private Employer COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate is Here: What Employers Need to Know," (November 2021)
• Author, “’Long-COVID’ in Employment Law,” Res Ipsa Loquitur, July 2021
• Author, "Michigan Governor Issues Stay-At-Home Order," (March 2020)

Speaking Engagements

• "Optimize Your Paid Time Off Policies in the Wake of ESTA," 51st Annual Labor & Employment Law Institute, The Michigan Institute of Continuing Legal Education (April 2026)