A problem solver and advocate, Susan helps clients navigate and comply with complex employment and public accessibility laws. She also litigates employment and public accessibility cases. 

Susan represents employers in federal, state, and administrative proceedings in complex labor and employment litigation cases, including wage and hour and public accessibility class actions, and multi-plaintiff and single-plaintiff actions presenting claims of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Susan also regularly counsels employers on all aspects of labor and employment law, and partners with management to make recommendations on complex and strategic employment decisions. Other significant aspect of Susan’s practice includes the prosecution and defense of noncompete and trade secret cases.

 Prior to joining the firm, Susan served as an extern for the Honorable Martin Jenkins, former district court judge for the Northern District of California. Susan was an equity research associate analyst covering the semiconductor industry before she began practicing law.

Relevant Experience

• Defending financial services, manufacturing, and casual dining clients in statewide wage and hour class actions presenting meal period, rest break, payroll deduction, expense reimbursement, reporting time, overtime, and other claims.
• Defending retail, manufacturing, casual dining, information management, food processing, and technology clients in multi-plaintiff and single-plaintiff federal, state and administrative actions presenting discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour claims.
• Defending multiple national movie theater clients in statewide class, multi-plaintiff, and agency public accessibility actions seeking to mandate new movie captioning and audio description technologies.
• Representing nonprofit alternative energy company in Department of Labor investigation into whether the nonprofit’s internship program was exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s wage and hour requirements.
• Representing clients in non-competition, trade secret, and employee raiding matters.
• Counseling national clients on various employment and public accessibility matters, including workforce reductions, workplace investigations and compliance, background check practices and preventative strategies under state, federal and municipal anti-discrimination and wage and hour laws.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, 2008BS, University of California, San Diego, 2001