- Partner
Christopher Andre is a seasoned civil litigator who focuses his practice on civil litigation and advising and representing employers. Mr. Andre is an editor of and frequent contributor to the firm’s Labor and Employment Law ...
- Partner
Cindy is head of the firm's business and tax team and represents both for profit and nonprofit clients in all types of general corporate transactional matters including entity formations, corporate governance, compensation ...
- Senior Associate
Sarkis Atoyan represents clients in all aspects of labor and employment law, with a particular focus on the defense of wage and hour class actions and representative action lawsuits under California’s Private Attorneys General ...
- Senior Associate
Alicia Belock represents clients in all matters related to private labor and employment. Her focus on employment law centers around wage and hour actions, workplace investigations, workplace discrimination and harassment ...
- Of Counsel
Eddy Beltran is a member of AALRR's Facilities, Construction, and Property Practice Group. Mr. Beltran’s specialized expertise is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). His experience includes the preparation and ...
- Partner
Rex Berry represents management-side clients in all matters of business and employment law, from discrimination claims to workplace investigations and beyond. He works closely with businesses and employers to avoid litigation ...
- Partner
William Betley practices in all areas of employment law, including unlawful harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, employee classification, and wage and hour. He also counsels and represents architects, engineers ...
- Partner
Brigham Cheney represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including employee class action lawsuits; traditional labor law; discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination litigation; breach of ...
- Senior Associate
Michele Collender represents private entities in complex litigation matters in federal and state courts. She has a unique background in defending independent contractor structured businesses against allegations of ...
- Partner
Kevin Dale provides legal services to both public and private sector clients. Mr. Dale provides services to various public agencies including school districts, housing authorities, cities, counties, water agencies, and other ...
- Partner
Scott Dauscher is Chair of the firm’s Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group. He also serves as Chair of the firm’s Class Action Defense Group, managing AALRR’s extensive class action practice and its team of ...
- Partner
Alexandria Davidson represents California public school districts as general counsel. She has experience with employment-related matters, including certificated and classified employee discipline, reductions of force ...
- Partner
Bill Diedrich represents school districts, community college districts, and other public agencies in all aspects of labor and employment law.
Having served for more than a decade as Chief Negotiator for school districts and ...
- Senior Associate
Lauren Fierro is an associate in the Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group where she divides her practice between private labor and employment litigation, advice and counsel, and business and commercial litigation ...
- Partner
Mr. Fleck is the former Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.
As a trusted advisor, Paul Fleck works closely with his business clients navigating the ...
- Senior Associate
Lauren S. Gafa is an associate in the Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group. She works with many clients in a variety of industries including entertainment and media, environmental, financial services, life sciences ...
- Partner
Brent Garrett exclusively represents management in labor and employment matters. He is also a frequent contributor to the firm’s Labor Relations Blog, providing analysis and commentary about new developments in the area of ...
- Senior Associate
Evan Gautier is a corporate transactional and tax attorney. Mr. Gautier’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law including entity formation and corporate governance issues, transactional tax ...
- Associate
Daniel (“Danny”) Gavilanes represents corporations, private equity and individual clients in a wide range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financial transactions, tax, and ...
- Partner
Carol Gefis has over 25 years of experience representing and advising employers in all areas of labor and employment law, including alleged wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, unfair competition, and wage and hour ...
- Partner
Jennifer Grock focuses her practice on advising and counseling employers on all aspects of the employment relationship. She is dedicated to client service and believes in taking a proactive approach that emphasizes each ...
- Senior Associate
Kieran Hartley counsels and represents employers in various labor and employment law matters, with a primary focus on defending employers in class and representative actions alleging California wage and hour violations ...
- Partner
Amber Healy has extensive experience litigating class actions and complex matters in state and federal courts throughout California. Her practice focuses on the defense of employers and management in class action ...
- Partner
Jonathan Judge advises employers in various labor and employment law matters, including drug testing, mass layoffs (WARN), disparate impact analysis, immigration compliance, trade secrets, privacy, technology in the ...
- Senior Associate
David Kang has extensive experience with a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including matters pertaining to wage & hour issues, with a focus on class action and PAGA representative lawsuits; matters pertaining to ...
- Partner
Nate Kowalski is Chair of the firm’s Public Entity Labor and Employment Practice Group. He is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Kowalski has litigated hundreds of ...
- Associate
Iris Kristoff represents and works with clients in a variety of private labor and employment matters. Her focus on employment law includes handling employment-related disputes in state and federal courts as well as before various ...
- Senior Associate
Geoffrey La Val represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including regulatory compliance and the defense of wage and hour class actions and representative action lawsuits under the California Private ...
- Senior Associate
Joshua Lange provides advice and counsel and litigation representation for employers in an array of labor and employment matters, with an emphasis on complex wage and hour class actions, harassment, discrimination and ...
- Partner
Catherine Lee specializes in employment, financial institution, and complex commercial litigation as well as data security and privacy.
Ms. Lee counsels and represents employers of all sizes. She has prevailed in state and ...
- Partner
Thomas Lenz handles all aspects of labor and employment law issues and heads the firm’s traditional labor and National Labor Relations Board practices. He works with employers in all major industries across California and the ...
- Partner
David Lester represents and advises private employers on a variety of labor relations, corporate, and litigation matters including class action wage and hour, trade secrets and unfair competition, sexual harassment and sexual ...
- Partner
Martin Li represents private sector employers in employment related issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful terminations, wage and hour litigation, and alleged civil rights violations. Mr. Li ...
- Senior Associate
Mia Lomedico handles all matters related to private labor and employment. She has litigated employment cases in arbitration and state and federal civil court involving the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the California Family ...
- Partner
Jorge Luna has been practicing law since 1996 in a variety of areas, including employment, construction, business litigation, intellectual property and entertainment. For the past 17 years, Mr. Luna has focused his practice ...
- Partner
Brian Martin’s litigation practice includes complex and class action defense, commercial and business litigation, corporate litigation, environmental litigation, intellectual property litigation, and employment ...
- Of Counsel
Ronald Novotny has been representing employers in labor and employment matters in federal and state courts and administrative agencies in California since 1981. He has extensive experience involving union and employer unfair ...
- Partner
Michael J. O’Connor Jr. represents businesses and employers throughout the region in class action defense, regulatory compliance, collective actions, commercial proceedings, and claims ranging from alleged wrongful ...
- Partner
Aaron O'Donnell represents California community college districts, universities, and school districts in education and employment-related matters. He provides experienced advice and counsel to clients in all aspects ...
- Partner
Shawn Ogle is a seasoned litigator in the firm’s Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group with a proven history in a broad range of commercial, class action defense, and high-profile trust & estate matters. Mr. Ogle prides ...
- Partner
Sharon Ormond chairs the firm’s Associate Mentoring and Training Committee and is a member of the firm’s Higher Education, Title IX, Civil Rights, and Wage and Hour groups. She represents numerous Community College Districts ...
- Partner
Joe Pelochino represents his business clients in employment-related claims and litigation, including claims for wrongful termination, harassment and retaliation, as well as class and representative wage and hour claims. Mr ...
- Partner
Chesley Quaide focuses on education law and labor relations and employment/labor law. He served as General Counsel of the Merced County Office of Education from 1991-2004, and has served as General Counsel of the Stanislaus ...
- Partner
Todd Robbins represents public school districts in the areas of education law, certificated and classified employee discipline, certificated layoffs, harassment and discrimination complaints, and contract ...
- Partner
Irma Rodríguez Moisa is an experienced litigator, labor negotiator, and trial attorney representing public and private entities in labor and employment matters. She is recognized as one of the top Labor and Employment lawyers ...
- Partner
Casandra Secord represents employers in single plaintiff and class action employment litigation involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, wrongful termination, wage and hour ...
- Senior Associate
Christina Semmer is an experienced employment and business litigator, advisor, and problem-solver. Her employment law practice focuses on representing employers through good times and bad, including claims of wrongful ...
- Of Counsel
Jon M. Setoguchi has a strong background in single-plaintiff and class action lawsuits for alleged wage and hour violations, under both federal and state law. His clients cover a wide variety of industries, including ...
- Partner
Ann Smith represents management in all aspects of employment litigation, including defending claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and leave of absence violations. Ms. Smith handles ...
- Partner
Amber Solano is Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.
Ms. Solano is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sector in ...
- Partner
Susana Solano advises employers and management regarding issues arising out of the employee-employer relationship, including the prevention of employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, and ...
- Partner
Susan Steward provides expert representation to every client she serves, both as counsel and in the courtroom. Ms. Steward has worked closely with for-profit and nonprofit companies, governmental entities, trade associations ...
- Senior Associate
April Szabo focuses her practice on employment matters, with an emphasis on practical, cost-effective client counseling and litigation. She specializes in providing clients with Human Resources guidance, including wage/hour ...
- Partner
Jay Trinnaman specializes in the representation of both public and private sector employers in all aspects of labor relations and employment law matters, including disciplinary and grievance arbitrations, unfair labor practice ...
- Partner
Jonathan Vick is a member of the Facilities, Construction, and Property Practice Group and has more than 30 years of experience in state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He started his career working for the United ...
- Partner
Robert Wenzel represents a diverse clientele which includes health care providers, residential construction companies, manufacturing concerns, restaurants and hotels, retail establishments, food processing companies ...
- Partner
Brian Wheeler leads the firm’s Intellectual Property and Data Security & Privacy team. His practice focuses on intellectual property, data security and privacy, and high-stakes complex commercial litigation, water ...
- Of Counsel
Glen Williams has counseled and represented business management in all manner of employment matters including investigations and litigation of claims of discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination, as well as ...
- Partner
Kimberley Worley has over 25 years of experience representing employers in matters ranging from individual discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and retaliation, to wage and hour compliance and general employment ...
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