Louise Ann Fernandez

• Labor and Employment

California

Since 1979

9th Circuit

The George Washington University Law School

J.D.

1978

Stanford University

B.A.

1975

Super Lawyer

Los Angeles Magazine

2015

Awarded from 2004-2015 (Business Edition in 2014)

The Top Women Attorneys in Southern California

Super Lawyers

2013

California Top Labor & Employment Lawyers

Daily Journal

2013

Also awarded in 2010

AV Rating

Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review

Labor and Employment Law Section, State Bar of California

Member

Current

Activities: Executive Committee from 1987-1989

Labor and Employment Law Section, Los Angeles County Bar Association

Member

Current

American Bar Association

Member

Current

It's Personal

Los Angeles Daily Journal special report

Managing the Managers—Lessons for Employers from a Court Ruling on Class Certification

California Employment Law Magazine

The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN): What Does It Mean to the Hotel Industry?

Real Estate Finance Journal

The Workplace in Transition: Getting Even

Los Angeles Daily Journal Labor and Employment Law Report

Employee Monitoring in an Electronic Age

December 21, 2009

Disastrous Wage And Hour Decision: California Supreme Court Makes It A Dark Day For Employers

Hotel-Online and Hotel Resource

April 17, 2007

Effective Advocacy in Employment Arbitrations: The Experts Tell You What Works and What Works Against You, The Twenty Ninth Annual Labor and Employment Law Symposium, Millennium Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles

March 31, 2009

Regular speaker on new developments in employment law for Practicing Law Institute, American Law Institute-American Bar Association and other groups

Regular speaker on new developments in employment law for the California Center for Judicial Education and Research, Advanced Civil Law Seminar for California State and Appellate Judges, 1996-2003

Speaker, Annual Institute on Employment Law on "Workplace Claims, Common Law and Public Policy Suspecting Wrongful Termination, Internal Investigation and Privacy" for the Practicing Law Institute, 1996-2003

Regular Expert Commentator on KNX 1070 News Radio on Labor and Employment Issues

Speaker, "Contingent Workforce Issues" for the 1998 Legal Update for the Professional and Human Resources Association

"Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," presentations to Justices of the California Court of Appeal, Second Appellate District, 1995

Speaker, "Summary of Critical Labor Issues Involved in the Acquisition and Sale of Hotels," and "A Checklist of Basic Labor Issues for Purchase or Sale of Hotel Properties," presentations at the JMBM Hospitality Industry Conference, 1994

Speaker, "Explosive Employment Issues in Hotels Today," JMBM's Hospitality Industry Forum, Los Angeles and San Francisco

Speaker, "Outline of Sexual Harassment Laws," presented as panelist on the Sexual Harassment and Misconduct Panel for the 18th Annual

UCLA Entertainment Symposium, "Rush to the Future: New Rights and Wrongs in the Entertainment Industry," Los Angeles, 1994

Sexual Harassment for the USC Entertainment Law Symposium, Panelist, 1993

Speaker, "Contingent Workforce Issues" at the Institute for Corporate Counsel, 15th Annual Seminar presented by the University of Southern California Law School

Guest lecturer on labor law, Stanford University Law School

Lecturer on labor and employment issues: State Bar of California, California Business Law Institute, California League of Cities, The Rutter Group, and other trade associations and groups