Maggie is a leading advisor on complex labor & employment issues with extensive experience defending leading employers in wage and hour class/collective actions, discrimination claims and other high-stakes workplace disputes in federal and state courts within California and across the U.S.

In addition to litigating, trying and appealing employment disputes, Maggie is an in-demand counselor. She provides strategic advice to major companies on a broad range of issues that confront employers, including matters related to mergers and other corporate transitions. She also has a niche practice advising the home offices and charitable foundations of celebrities and ultra-high-net-worth individuals regarding labor and employment issues arising from their personal teams and philanthropic endeavors. 

Her clients include multiple internationally recognized celebrities and leaders in the corporate world, Silicon Valley and Hollywood. She also represents many game-changing companies in the financial services, media and entertainment, retail, hospitality, and energy sectors. These include Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo, Dine Brands, General Dynamics, Kennedy Wilson, Twist Bioscience, Square, Inc., Yelp, Warner Bros. and NBCUniversal. 

Among other victories, she recently secured summary judgment and dismissal of a statewide wage and hour class and PAGA action in California state court and has defeated employment claims ranging from discrimination to defamation at trial and in arbitration. Maggie has significant experience in FINRA arbitrations, including securing a complete victory for a major financial firm. She also advises employers on labor relations and represents organizations in proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board.

In addition to her employment practice, Maggie represents and advises clients on a broad range of complex civil litigation matters, including environmental, tax, malpractice, insurance, securities and contract disputes.

Maggie maintains an active pro bono practice focused on civil rights, criminal justice and advocacy for children and families. Her work has included a death row habeas representation, constitutional challenges brought with the ACLU and MALDEF, representation of juvenile asylum seekers and matters involving special-needs students and foster family adoptions.

Maggie serves on the board of the California Employment Roundtable and on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Amanecer, a nonprofit providing counseling and mental health services to low-income children and families in Los Angeles.

Maggie earned her J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as publishing editor of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. She holds an M.A. in education from Loyola Marymount University and, prior to law school, she taught 12th grade at Compton High School as a member of Teach For America.