About
Patricia DeSantis Belton focuses her practice on management-aspect exertions and employment subjects, together with wage and hour violations, discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, and family members among control and unions.
Patricia is skilled in all regions of the litigation manner together with research, method, propounding and responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, preparing and opposing motions, mediating instances to resolution, and performing in nation and federal courtroom. She is also skilled with investigations and evidentiary hearings with administrative agencies inclusive of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Department of Fair Employment Housing, the National Labor Relations Board, the Public Employment Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Employment Development Department, and the Department of Consumer Affairs. Patricia is achieved as first- and 2nd-chair trial suggest before administrative corporations, which includes the Division of Labor Standards and the National Labor Relations Board.
Patricia studied conventional exertions law at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and her conventional exertions revel in consists of counseling related to problems which includes organizing/avoidance campaigns, work stoppages, discounts in pressure, and other associated troubles, as well as collective bargaining. She has defended consultant and decertification elections, unfair exertions practices, grievances and arbitrations.
Patricia regularly enables clients manipulate litigation chance via advice associated with employees rules, employee handbooks, arbitration agreements, employment contracts, employee area and discharge, inns, protected leaves of absence, and exertions family members. She investigates claims of harassment, discrimination and retaliation. Additionally, she lectures and consults in these regions and on other employment-related matters, inclusive of presenting sexual harassment education.
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Location
Legal Issues
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
Costs
Certificates
Languages
- English
Accepted Jurisdictions
Experience
- Partner
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP
2012 - Lawyer
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
2011 - Summer Associate
Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & smith LLP
2008
Educations
Graduation year: 2009
Graduation year: 2006
