Yesenia M. Gallegos
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
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Mar 20 @ 15:08 pm for Yesenia M. Gallegos About Yesenia M. Gallegos
Yesenia Gallegos is a bilingual (English/Spanish) employment and business litigator and counselor. As a Partner at Fox Rothschild, a full service law firm with 17 offices throughout the United States, she represents multi-national companies as well as small business owners in employment and business disputes such as: trade secret and non-compete litigation; contract disputes; wage and hour class actions; discrimination, harassment and whistleblower lawsuits; government investigations and administrative hearings before the California OSHA Board and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE).
She provides clients with day to day risk management counseling, conducts wage and hour audits, offers step by step reduction in force compliance (WARN Act/Cal. WARN), performs workplace investigations, and provides on-site training on a variety of risk management topics.
Yesenia builds strategic alliances and long term relationships with her clients, and offers effective legal solutions aligned with her clients' business models and goals. She also offers litigation services through the implementation of alternative fee structures where possible and employs alternative staffing models, which significantly reduces the cost of litigation and produces measurable results and increased predictability.
Specialties:
--Mitigating or eliminating exposure in high stakes wage and hour class actions
--Advising federal contractors
--Discrimination and harassment lawsuits under the California FEHA, Ralph Act and Unruh Act
--Injunctive relief for the protection of company trade secrets
--Defending retail establishments in ADA Public Accommodation cases and criminal cases of unfair competition
--Arbitration and Mediation
