Experience

Rating: 8.7 (Excellent)

Honors

2014

Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers

2014

Top 75 Employment Attorney, Daily Journal

2013

Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers

2013

Top 75 Employment Attorney, Daily Journal

2012

Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers

2011

Super Lawyer, SuperLawyers

2006

Super lawyer, SuperLawyers

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Work Experience

2010 - Present

Partner, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

2003 - 2010

Partner, Seyfarth Shaw

1997 - 2003

Associate, Seyfarth Shaw

1995 - 1996

Associate, Fogel Feldman

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Education

1995

University of California School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

N/A

Univ of Illinois

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Speaking Engagements

2005

Southwestern University

From Hiring to Firing: The Nuts and Bolts of Employment Law

2005

Seyfarth Shaw annual Labor Law symposium.

Advanced Stategies in Reducing Class Litigation

2005

American Corporate Counsel Association

Get That Monkey Off Your Back! Cutting Edge Employment Law Compliance Issues

2005

Allstate Insurance Company

The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005: Issues and Insights

2004

Seyfarth Shaw annual Labor Law symposium

Recent Trends in Employment Class Actions — It’s Certainly Not Just Title VII Anymore

2003

American Corporate Counsel Association

Beyond The Exempt/Non-Exempt Dilemma — The Most Treacherous California Wage & Hour Laws You Never Heard of (but Plaintiffs Have)

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Publications

2005

The Recorder A Tragedy of Manners: Flawed Reasoning Equates Workplace Sexuality With Gender Discrimination,

2004

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly California Supreme Court Reaffirms Trial Court’s Power to Decide Whether a Class Action Should Be Certified,

2003

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly National Bank Act Preemption Can Provide Banks a Defense to Labor Code Class Actions

2002

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly The Supreme Court Provides California Employers With Some Ammunition Against Stale Discrimination and Retaliation Claims,

2002

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly California Appellate Courts Continue to Make Hash of Workers’ Compensation Exclusivity Doctrine,

2001

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly Changing the Rules After the Game Has Been Played: The Pitfalls of Applying AB 2222 Retroactively,

2000

California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly Retreating from Moorpark: Avoiding an Overexpansive Breadth of Wrongful Discharge in Violation of Public Policy,

2000

The Recorder Legal Principles Defeat Poetic Justice: Richards Offers a Guide Through Continuing Violations Thicket,

2000

The Recorder Greening the Public Policy Claim,

2000

The Closer Toward Efficiency: California Officials are Taking Only Baby Steps in Launching High-Tech Courthouses,

1999

Daily Journal Sole Remedy: Relief for Wrongful Termination Claims Shouldn't Be Expanded

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