Susan R. Jerich

Susan Jerich has over thirty years of experience in the legal profession. Ms. Jerich handles a variety of subject matters in her labor and employment practice including harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Prior to joining AALRR, Ms. Jerich worked as a local and federal prosecutor in the San Francisco Bay Area where she served five years in the San Francisco District Attorney’s office, and seven years as an Assistant U.S. Attorney. When Ms. Jerich relocated to Southern California, she worked for twelve years for the largest employee-side law firm that primarily represents public safety unions and their employees. In this role, Ms. Jerich advised public sector clients including, for example, police officers, sheriff’s deputies, probation officers, and firefighters. In this capacity, Ms. Jerich represented employees in disciplinary investigations up through the disciplinary appeal process.

Ms. Jerich has also worked for the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office where she handled all aspects of felony trial matters from pre-trial litigation through jury trial, negotiated case dispositions, litigated pre-trial motions, and presented trainings to various law enforcement agencies in the Coachella Valley. Ms. Jerich left Riverside County to join the San Bernadino County Counsel’s office where she was embedded with the Sheriff’s Department and provided advice pertaining to labor and employment matters representing the Sheriff in such matters. Her role included overseeing internal affairs investigations, attending disciplinary proceedings, advising the executive staff on disciplinary issues and litigating, when required, disciplinary appeal hearings on behalf of the County. Today, her practice includes this type of work on behalf of the deep bench of AALRR’s public sector clients.

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