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• Advise and represent companies in a broad range of labor and employment matters including wage and hour class and collective actions, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and accommodation matters, non-competition and breach of fiduciary disputes, and general commercial litigation matters.• Counsel clients on due diligence issues related to labor and employment matters in buy/sell transactions.• Defend clients in Department of Labor and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigations.• Provide day-to-day advice and counsel on designing and implementing proactive policies to assist employers in minimizing their exposure under various labor and employment laws.• Appear before courts in commercial litigation cases, and discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases, as well as before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a wide variety of matters, including discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and additional issues under the American with Disabilities Act, and Age Discrimination in Employment Act.• Draft and argue various motions, including motions to dismiss, motions for summary judgment, and discovery motions in labor and employment and commercial issues.• Extensive discovery practice, including drafting and responding to written discovery.• Oversee the collection and analysis of large amounts of documents and electronically stored information for production in employment matters, commercial litigation matters, and class and collective actions.• Draft position statements in response to state and federal charges of discrimination.• Handle all client and opposing counsel communications for assigned cases, conduct settlement negotiations, and draft settlement agreements.• Draft preliminary case analyses and budgets for assigned cases.

• Represented employers and high-level executives in employment litigation matters involving allegations of sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination and breach of employment contract. Practice area focus included employment discrimination, wage and hour, traditional labor, independent contractors and contingent workforce, workplace investigations, and employment agreements.• Extensive motion practice, including motions for summary judgment, motions to dismiss, and discovery motions on a variety of labor and employment and commercial issues. • Drafted and responded to hundreds of discovery requests, including requests for production, requests for disclosure, requests for admission and interrogatories in a variety of employment and commercial matters.• Coordinated and analyzed thousands of pages of documents in a variety of employment and commercial matters.• Counseled employees and employers on a variety of personnel matters including termination and discipline decisions, non-compete and solicitation issues, fiduciary duties, discrimination, disability accommodation, leaves of absence, wage and hour issues, workplace investigations, and employee privacy.• Drafted position statements and mediation briefs, as well as employment agreements, employee bonus programs, employee policies, and employee handbooks/manuals.• Represented homeowners association in a bench trial as the sole attorney.• Assisted in preparation for, and attended mediations.• Conducted workplace investigations, including witness interviews.

• Managed numerous aspects of employment disputes, commercial litigation matters, and healthcare litigation cases in state and federal court. • Developed case strategy, advised clients through full litigation process, interviewed expert witnesses, and handled initial case assessment. • Conducted depositions and drafted pleadings, motions for summary judgment, motions to compel, and motions to dismiss.• Managed document review of voluminous employment and medical records in a range of matters, including multi-party litigation, and performed discovery of hard copy and electronically stored data in preparation for litigation.• Appeared on behalf of the firm's clients to present well-reasoned arguments in court. • Analyzed and summarized complicated legal documents, including contracts and policies, suggested revisions, and/or advised on enforceability and or potential issues.

• Drafted discovery motions, responses to discovery, and portions of briefs for employment and commercial matters. • Conducted in-depth legal and factual research on a variety of issues for pending litigation matters.• Assisted with depositions and trial preparation in multi-party employment and commercial matters.

• Drafted objective memorandums, performed legal research, and reviewed and prepared tentative rulings for Law & Motion Calendars.