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Kristen Khair is a member of the Labor & Employment Practice in Greenberg Traurig’s Orange County office. Kristen focuses her practice on defending employers in a wide range of labor and employment matters, including single plaintiff suits involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour claims. She also defends clients in complex wage and hour class, collective, and PAGA actions.

Kristen possesses experience across all phases of litigation, including but not limited to motion practice, mediation, depositions, discovery, and trial/arbitration hearing preparation. In addition to her litigation work, Kristen has advised employers on legal compliance, striving to ensure they meet all necessary state and federal requirements. She has also prepared various employment documents for clients, such as employee handbooks, arbitration agreements, meal break waivers, and workplace violence prevention plans.

Concentrations

  • Employment class, collective, and representative actions
  • Employment litigation, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims

Expertise

Erfahrung

  • Judicial Extern, Hon. Richard M. Aronson and Hon. Thomas M. Goethals, California Court of Appeals, 4th District, 2021
  • Legal Intern, California Attorney General – Criminal Appeals, Writs, and Trials, 2021
  • Extern/Certified Law Student, Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office, 2020

Anerkennung durch den Markt

  • Member, State Bar of California, November 2021-Present

Ausbildung

Akademische Ausbildung
  • J.D., University of California at Davis School of Law
  • B.A., California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
    • Editor-in-Chief, Undergraduate Journal of Political Science
Zulassung
  • California

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