About

Julia Michelle McGuinness is a professional legal professional in Torrance, California with vast enjoy in litigation, hard work & employment regulation, civil and commercial enterprise litigation, and extra.

Ms. McGuinness has big revel in in all levels of litigation, which includes pleading, pre-trial discovery, depositions, motion practice, mediation, and trial practice, in both nation and federal court docket. Ms. McGuinness also has revel in litigating in different state jurisdictions.

Ms. McGuinness’s number one areas of exercise encompass hard work & employment regulation (together with salary and hour, retaliation and discrimination), civil and enterprise litigation, construction, breach of settlement, tort regulation and leisure associated litigation. Ms. McGuinness has represented Fortune 500 corporations both prosecuting and defending towards fundamental creation disorder claims and move-claims.

Prior to working at McGuinness & Associates, Ms. McGuinness practiced at a plaintiffs’ elegance action firm in Los Angeles, in which she represented plaintiff personnel in my view, and through class movements and consultant Private Lawyer General Act (“PAGA”) movements, who were deprived of wages, and meal and rest intervals. Ms. McGuinness has additionally represented plaintiffs and aggrieved employees who had been no longer paid earned commissions, and who have been fraudulently deprived of their fairness fee.

Ms. McGuinness has defended employers in discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, and wage and hour moves under the FLSA and country legal guidelines. She additionally has a amazing deal of enjoy representing plaintiff personnel who have suffered from hard work code violations which include unpaid commissions, beyond regular time and holiday pay; breach of settlement; negligence; fraud; unlawful business practices; breach of fiduciary duty; and different hard work code violations.

Ms. McGuinness also provides issue-count number counseling to manipulate place of job demanding situations overlaying the whole range of hard work and employment problems, along with: hiring; team of workers discounts; salary and hour exempt repute; union issues; drug trying out; unbiased contractor and pay practices audits; anti-harassment rules; and other such schooling.

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Construction Law

Construction Contracts, Construction Defects, Construction Liens, Construction Litigation

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Litigation

Collections

Employment Law

Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Wrongful Termination

Insurance Defense

Personal Injury

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