About Leslie

Leslie spent over 34 years at a leading global law firm litigating cases, counseling clients, conducting investigations, and negotiating settlements.  She has deep knowledge and experience practicing in federal and state courts through the appellate level, in arbitration, and in agency proceedings. 

Leslie specialized in complex class and PAGA actions involving thousands of workers and multi-million-dollar stakes.  She also regularly navigated highly sensitive individual matters alleging assault, hostile work environment, discrimination, disability accommodation, and whistleblower complaints.  


Leslie handled thousands of employment cases in a broad range of industries, including retail, manufacturing, production, sales, grocery, hospitality, information technology, media and entertainment, financial services, legal, education, telecommunications, energy and utilities, healthcare, senior living, transportation, and logistics. 

Before law school, Leslie worked at various for-profit companies and non-profit organizations.  Leslie’s jobs ranged from assisting with charitable giving to community organizations; event planning; restaurant wait staff and food prep; and others.  Leslie also lived in London for two years working as a legal assistant for a global firm and attending graduate school.  These experiences inform and support Leslie’s balanced, pragmatic, and empathetic view of the challenges and concerns both employers and employees face in the workplace.

Leslie now exclusively serves as a neutral mediator.  She conducts private mediations and regularly volunteers as a Settlement Officer for the Los Angeles Superior Court.  Leslie brings to the mediation process genuine understanding, compassion, strategic and analytical acumen, practicality, and deal-making insight. 

  • Paul Hastings LLP, 1991 - 2026          

    • Partner, Employment Law Department

    • Lead counsel in class, collective, PAGA, and individual matters

      • Wage and Hour

      • Discrimination, Harassment, Hostile Work Environment, Retaliation

      • Wrongful Termination, Whistleblower, Tort, Contract

    • Former West Coast Vice Chair of the Global Employment Law Department

    • Former Chair of the Los Angeles Employment Law Department

    • Former Chair of the Wage-Hour and PAGA Practice Groups

    • Partner Advisor, Los Angeles Women’s Affinity Group

    • Recipient of Paul Hastings’ Leonard S. Janofsky Award for Excellence in Employment Law

    • Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, Pepperdine Caruso School of Law

      • Certification of Training Completion, Mediating the Litigated Case

    • Loyola Law School, J.D.         

      • Order of the Coif

      • The Saint Thomas More Law Honor Society

      • Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (Articles Editor)

      • American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure

      • Extern, Hon. Stephen V. Wilson (U.S. District Court, C.D. Cal.)

    • London School of Economics, Diploma (International and Comparative Politics)

    • University of California, Berkeley, B.A. (Political Science)

    • American Bar Association

    • California Lawyers Association

    • Los Angeles County Bar Association

      • Past Chair, Labor & Employment Section

      • Executive, Symposium, Retreat, and Saturday Seminar Committees

    • Statewide California Mediation Association

    • Women Lawyers of Los Angeles

    • Best Lawyers in America

    • College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, Fellow

    • Chambers (individually- and firm department-ranked in Employment Law)

    • Top 100 Women Lawyers, Daily Journal

    • Legal 500

    • Super Lawyers

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Understanding people. Navigating complexity. Creating the conditions for resolution.

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