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Section Meeting - Employment Law

  • 23 Feb 2016
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Advanced Depositions - 17752 Sky Park Circle Suite 100, Irvine, CA, 92614
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Damages in Employment Litigation: An Explanation of the Rights of Employees in the Workplace and How to Calculate Damages

Presented by: Melissa A. Petrofsky, Esq.

www.petrofskyfirm.com

Melissa Petrofsky’s legal career revolves around one idea: empowerment. Legal situations are impossible to navigate without knowledge, expertise, and passion. One cannot meet and defeat legal hurdles unarmed. Melissa has the intellect, strategy, and drive to achieve her clients’ goals. Employment law has been Melissa’s area of expertise for nearly a decade. Whether representing a sexual harassment victim, a whistleblower, or the victim of racial profiling, Melissa uses her wisdom, experience, and empathy to avidly pursue her clients’ rights. Melissa has successfully litigated against most major employment defense firms in California. She has prevailed against attacks on the pleading, discovery motions, and dispositive motions. In fact, she has never lost a dispositive motion before any judge in California, in either state or federal court. Her sterling track record is due to her savvy approach: she doesn’t take on a fight that she can’t win. Melissa’s guiding principle has always been to empower her clients by using her legal skills to advocate for truth and justice. Her clients have ranged from part-time sales clerks to CEOs, from teenagers to great-grandmothers. Sometimes, her clients have suffered emotionally. Other times, they’ve lost hundreds of thousands of dollars because of the illegal acts of their boss. Melissa approaches every case with zealous representation -- she understands that every case is a person’s life.

Embracing the core values of authority, inspiration, and empowerment, Melissa has been named to the Superlawyers Rising Star list for 2015 and 2016. Melissa holds a juris doctor degree from Whittier Law School and bachelor’s degree in education from Culver-Stockton College. Melissa has served as a valued speaker on employment issues at industry events and has taught employment issues to graduate students at Loma Linda University.

 

THANK YOU to Advanced Depositions for hosting this meeting and please take a moment to see what services they offer by visiting advanceddepositions.com. When you use their services, please be sure to let them know you are an OCPA Member.

OCPA is a State Bar of California Approved MCLE provider and certifies that this seminar qualifies for MCLE CREDIT 1.0.

Event Fee: $10.00 for OCPA members, $20.00 for non-members and $20.00 for all walk-ins who have not pre-registered online (both members and non-members) IF SPACE IS AVAILABLE. Walk-ins are on a first come first serve basis.

PLEASE NOTE: Effective January 1, 2016, OCPA will no longer accept checks as a form of payment for event registration. Please log in to your OCPA account to submit electronic payment via credit card, debit card or PayPal.   

Parking is free.

Light snacks will be provided

*Space is limited for all OCPA events, so please submit your reservation via this website event. Walk-ins are welcome on a first come first serve basis if space is available.

*Cancellation Policy - If you need to cancel your reservation, please e-mail Employment Law Section ChairSusan Schwartz at susanslaw@yahoo.comNo refunds will be issued. Credit for a future meeting will be held in your OCPA account which may be applied to future meetings if your cancellation is received no less than 48 hours prior to the event. 

Please note: Credit will not be issued to passport holders. 

Questions? Please contact the Employment Law Section Chair Susan Schwartz at susanslaw@yahoo.com. If you have a topic or speaker you would like to hear at an upcoming section meeting, please let us know.

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