Katie collaborates with employers to resolve challenging litigation and avoid risky compliance issues. She defends employers against PAGA, class, multi-plaintiff, and single plaintiff actions involving a variety of claims ranging from complex wage and hour disputes to contentious discrimination and harassment claims. Katie has jury trial experience and practices before a variety of forums, including state and federal trial courts, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and private arbitration and mediation. She understands the challenges that employers face and helps them to navigate ever-changing state, federal, and local laws. Katie has significant experience litigating and advising on wage and hour issues; exempt/non-exempt classification; discrimination, harassment, and retaliation; arbitration agreements; independent contractor classification; business expense reimbursement; compensation; Section 17200, and more. She also works with clients to resolve employment disputes prior to litigation.
Katie earned her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she graduated Order of the Coif.
Katie provides U.K. and international clients with commercially focused, practical advice on a broad range of transactional and advisory employment matters, including the employment aspects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, workforce restructuring, employee relations and consultation, recruitment and severance, workforce classification and restrictive covenants.
Annie has experience in all facets of litigation, including factual investigations, preparing witnesses for depositions, taking depositions, and pretrial briefing and motion practice. She also advises clients regarding compliance with employment laws, including revising employee handbook provisions and employee commission agreements, leave of absence issues, requests for accommodations and employee terminations.
As a trial lawyer, trusted counselor, and advocate, Annie finds creative solutions - whether that means tackling challenging issues with current employees, resolving a matter pre-litigation, or winning decisively at trial. Having amassed significant courtroom and trial experience, she knows how to deliver the best results for her client. She has won trials and arbitrations and defended several companies against high-profile, highly publicized claims. Representative clients include Apple, Carta, Lyft, Williams-Sonoma, Inc., Unity Technologies, Instabase, TaskRabbit, and Next Insurance.
Annie also has expertise in gig economy and independent contractor classification issues, workplace best practices and policies, defending companies in government audits including unemployment insurance audits, investigating internal employee complaints, and counseling on issues throughout the entire employee life cycle.
When she is not in her office in Menlo Park, Annie chases after her two dogs Clifford and Jude and her toddler.
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