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Akin Offices
580 CALIFORNIA STREET
SUITE 1500
SAN FRANCISCO CA 94104 1036
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Donna Mezias
Work Department
Partner; Labor & Employment
Position
Donna Mezias advises employers on a wide range of employment issues, including management of risks associated with employee terminations; sexual harassment and other employee investigations; reductions in force and facility closures; discrimination issues; trade secret and employee mobility issues; disability accommodation; family and medical leave laws; wage and hour compliance; drug testing; and employee privacy rights. She represents employers in all types of employment litigation including class action and individual discrimination cases; wage and hour class actions and Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) collective actions; retaliation; whistleblower; wrongful termination and employment contract cases; trade secret; employee solicitation; defamation; and unfair competition litigation.
To learn more about Ms. Mezias, please visit her full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/donna-m-mezias.html.
Education
J.D., Stanford Law School, 1983; B.A., Boston College, magna cum laude, 1977
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International Trade > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization