Iris Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

• Legal strategist and business partner delivering world-class HR, Payroll, Benefits, and related professional services to over 3,000 businesses and nearly 100,000 employees across 50 states.Focus and expertise include:
• 50-state compliance with labor and employment laws and regulations;
• employment practices, class actions, and other claims;
• information security and privacy;
• contracts;
• investigations;

Austin, Texas, United States

• Motivated servant leader and head attorney for national nonprofit with 6,000+ employees working in various states to provide shelter, alternatives to incarceration, and education to over 30,000 children and youth.
• Served on the COVID-19 risk mitigation leadership group;
• Led a working group to recruit and structure the organization’s first ever centralized compliance function;
• Led selection and implementation of electronic contract management system; and
• Provided strategic thought leadership to enhance collaboration across the enterprise.

Washington, DC

• Trial and appellate litigation, regulatory and legislative analysis, and policy counseling focused on issues that affect older persons’ health care, long-term services and supports, housing, and food.
• litigation to protect the rights of nursing facility residents to access the courts and give informed consent before the administration of antipsychotic drugs;
• litigation challenging fraudulent practices that drive up the cost of health and long-term care and endanger the Medicare and Medicaid programs;
• class action litigation challenging practices that unnecessarily segregate disabled persons, violating the integration mandate of the Americans with Disabilities Act;
• litigation to end disability discrimination in housing and health care;
• amicus advocacy defending various provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Medicare;

• Representative matters:
• risk assessment and compliance counseling: product liability, tort, false claims, anti-kickback, and anti-corruption, Fair Credit Reporting Act, and state pre-employment screening laws;
• litigation, investigations: complex commercial, False Claims Act, Food Drug and Cosmetics Act, and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, patent infringement, software licensing, and product liability;
• litigation and liability due diligence investigation for potential pharmaceutical company merger; and
• class counsel for plaintiffs monitoring municipality’s compliance with consent decree.Responsibilities:
• counsel clients on product liability risks, government investigations risks, and regulatory compliance;

Dallas, Texas

• Representative matters:
• action for declaratory judgment and damages relating to patent portfolio agreement;
• state income tax audit;
• breach of contract and tort action arising from failure of turbines at cogenerator facility;
• patent infringement action and licensing dispute involving numerous semiconductor patents;
• construction contract dispute;

Conduct research regarding the application of sentencing guidelines in different circuits and identify possible conflicts and potential appeals.

Research and draft legal memoranda regarding various civil rights issues. Participate in litigation strategy meetings.

J.D., Cum Laude, Law

Activities and Societies: Georgetown Law Journal, Criminal Justice Clinic, ACS, Student Bar AssociationDean's Certificate, in recognition.

B.A., Cum Laude, Government

Activities and Societies: Golden Key National Honors Society National Society of Collegiate Scholars

Master Of Laws - Llm, Health Law