Maureen K. Bogue

Firm: Pacific Employment Law
Location: San Francisco – CA

• 260 California Street Suite 500
  San Francisco, CA 94111
  USA

Maureen Bogue represents employers throughout the state of California and has over 25 years of experience as an employment litigator and counselor.  She has represented employers of all sizes in state and federal courts and in arbitration.  She has significant experience defending employers in wage and hour claims (including class actions), as well as claims for discrimination, harassment, failure to accommodate and related employment claims.  She also represents employers in EEOC and EDD audits.

Having previously served as in-house employment counsel for a global company, Ms. Bogue provides strategic and business-oriented advice on complicated employment issues and serves as “back up” in-house employment counsel when needed.  She regularly advises employers on issues such as leaves of absence, disability accommodation, and performance management.  Throughout her career, she has provided training to management employees on topics ranging from harassment prevention to reasonable accommodation to managing within the law.  Ms. Bogue has been conducting workplace investigations for 20 years and is often retained to investigate claims of harassment, discrimination or retaliation asserted against senior members of management.

Ms. Bogue founded Pacific Employment Law LLP in 2013 and has been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer 2016 – 2020.

EDUCATION

J.D., 1993 – Cornell Law School B.A., 1989 – Wells College, summa cum laude,

Phi Beta Kappa

BAR ADMISSIONS

California

Pacific Employment Law

Pacific Employment Law LLP represents companies of all sizes throughout the state of California. Our attorneys have significant experience representing engineering and construction firms, manufacturing companies, alternative energy companies, law firms, health care providers and technology companies.

At Pacific Employment Law LLP, we recognize that delivering value involves more than legal analysis and technical expertise; it requires the ability to focus on the big picture. Our attorneys are committed to providing excellent legal service and meeting each client’s goals.

Pacific Employment Law LLP is a certified woman-owned business.

Trish is a partner with the firm’s Litigation and Employment practice group. She represents clients in state and federal courts in a variety of commercial litigation contexts, primarily including employment and franchise disputes, but also including UCC and other banking litigation and general complex commercial litigation and arbitration.

As part of her employment law practice, Trish provides counseling and general advice on employment-related issues. She has represented clients before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Georgia Department of Labor, and FINRA, as well as in state and federal courts. Representative engagements include claims for discrimination and retaliation based on age, gender, race, religion, and disability; breach of employment agreements; alleged violations of federal and state wage and hour and leave laws; and advice regarding employment handbooks, policies, trade secrets, non-competes and other restrictive covenants, and executive and employee agreements.

Trish also has represented several franchisors in actions to enforce franchise agreements against franchisees or in actions by third parties asserting vicarious liability against the franchise system. Trish provides counseling for franchisors with respect to their disclosure documents, franchise agreements, terminations, and other issues. She also has spoken at state and national conferences regarding franchise issues. Trish is currently an editor for the Franchise Law Journal.

She has served on the Firm’s diversity, recruiting, and mentoring program committees.

Trish is a graduate of Oglethorpe University (Atlanta, GA), where she is currently on the Board of Trustees and a member of its Executive Committee and former co-chair of the Oglethorpe Women’s Network. After graduation, she taught middle school and high school before attending Georgia State University College of Law, where she graduated cum laude, was Student Writing Associate Editor of the Law Review, and served as president of the Student Bar Association. Trish currently serves on the board of the non-profit Trees Atlanta and serves on the Advisory Council for the Atlanta Legal Aid Society. She remains actively involved in local, state, and national bar associations. She is a consistent Saturday Lawyers volunteer with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation and has contributed a significant amount of time to pro bono work.

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP

Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP is a mid-sized firm with an integrated collection of exceptional boutique practices in Alternative Dispute Resolution, Bankruptcy, Commercial Finance, Corporate and M&A, Employee Benefits/ ERISA, Employment and Civil Rights Litigation and Counseling, Health Industry, Litigation, Real Estate, and Tax. 2019 marks the firm’s 38th year as a member of Atlanta’s legal community. The firm now has over 80 attorneys serving clients from offices in Atlanta, Georgia and Tallahassee, Florida. We offer a full range of legal expertise in business matters in an environment that combines superior legal talent and work product with the advantages of excellent service, lower overhead, and efficient billing rates available through a mid-sized firm.

We are particularly honored to have been selected to join Meritas, a prestigious, highly selective international association of 182 full service law firms worldwide, in over 90 countries. Through our Meritas affiliation and access to more than 7,500 lawyers in member firms, Parker Hudson can assist our clients’ needs for legal services in every state and throughout the world.

Bryan has practiced employment law in Chicago his entire 20+ career, representing predominantly employees for over half that time. He has helped employees successfully transition jobs and recover for their losses without ever filing legal claims. He also has helped employees win multi-million dollar verdicts and awards after litigating vigorously as part of a team of attorneys. And he has helped companies comply with employment laws and defended wrongful termination actions.

Bryan quit his first grocery store job after being refused a raise up to minimum wage and being told he was still expected to (illegally) operate the meat grinder (he was underage). He later drafted the employee handbook at his college grocery store job – working his way up from stocker to shift supervisor. He’s always been passionate about ensuring equality and civil rights – studying those issues extensively in college.

After law school, good lawyers at Seyfarth Shaw convinced Bryan he could help protect employees’ civil rights best as the employer’s lawyer – like they did. It made sense – if you help write the policies and advise about the decisions enforcing them, you can ensure the law is followed and promote equality.

At Seyfarth Shaw, Bryan represented employers ranging from small, privately held businesses to large, publicly traded Fortune 500 companies in various types of employment matters. But, as a young lawyer, those company’s leaders weren’t exactly calling him for his thoughts on what they should be doing.

Impatient, Bryan left Seyfarth Shaw for Stowell & Friedman, Ltd. – an employment discrimination class action firm – and quickly found himself face-to-face with General Counsel at major corporations discussing systemic changes that could benefit their companies’ employees AND the bottom line. He also saw how quickly executives’ careers could be ruined because they opposed illegal activities – and learned how to counsel them to protect their careers without turning a blind eye to discrimination or injustice they or others were experiencing.

After several years at Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., Bryan decided to start his own practice – now known as The Wood Law Office, LLC. There, Bryan tries to have his cake and eat it, too – he advises companies on how to uphold the law and avoid risk through smart business decisions. He helps employees protect their careers and compensation while still making positive changes and being free from discrimination and retaliation. And – when it’s the best option (or sometimes the only option), he helps his clients fight hard in litigation – for years if necessary – to try to expose injustice, inequality or illegality.

Except when he’s at home. Then he’s just trying to be a good parent, a good husband, and a good neighbor.

Admissions

• Illinois (1999)
• United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit (2014), Sixth Circuit (2001)
• United States District Courts N.D. Ill. (1999), C.D. Ill. (2002) S.D. Ill. (2000)

Bar Associations

• National Employment Lawyers Assoc. (2005 – present)
• NELA-Illinois (2006 – present)
  • Board Member (2008-Present)
  • Officer (2014-Present)
  • Practice Resources Comm. Co-Chair (2009-Present)
• Illinois State Bar Association (2007 – present)
  • Labor & Employment Section
• Chicago Bar Association (2004 – present)
  • Co-Chair, Labor & Employment Committee (2011-2013)
  • Class Litigation Committee
• Federal Bar Association (2013 – present)
• American Association for Justice (2014 – present)
• American Bar Foundation – Fellow (2018-present)

Organizations

• Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of Chicago, Inc. (2015 – present)
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (2001 – present)
• Southern Poverty Law Center (2005 – present)
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) (2001 – present)

The Wood Law Office, LLC

Finding a path through any difficult situation is hard. Whether considering an employment or severance agreement or battling discrimination or retaliation, as an employee you have rights. As a manager, you have obligations because in many situations you can be personally liable for your company’s violations of employment laws. Either way, you have options.

Bryan Wood, lead attorney at The Wood Law Office, LLC, is a Chicago employment attorney who concentrates in helping protect employees’ civil rights by ensuring employees and managers understand their rights, obligations and options.

Years of experience representing employers – including municipalities, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies – allows for unique insight into legal issues employees and employers face.

And years of experience representing employees in negotiations, mediations, arbitrations and court proceedings – including class actions – allows for dependable, dedicated and determined representation in all Chicago employment law matters.

Pat Flanagan has been practicing defense litigation throughout North Carolina since 1994. Prior to returning to North Carolina, Pat handled criminal and civil matters in the Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) and as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Pat now concentrates his practice in the areas of employment and municipal law before federal and state courts and agencies, as well as handling a variety of premises liability issues, including safety and security related issues, for public entities, non-profits, and private companies.  He currently chairs the firm’s Employment Law section.

As lead counsel, Pat has defended numerous public entities in lawsuits involving claims of wrongful termination, discrimination and constitutional violations in federal and state courts. He has also defended numerous police officers and public officials as lead counsel in various claims of constitutional violations in federal and state courts, and has defended various types of premises liability claims as lead counsel for public and private companies.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Cases or matters referenced do not represent the lawyer’s entire record. Each case is unique and must be evaluated on its own merits. The outcome of a particular case cannot be predicated upon a lawyer’s or a law firm’s past results.

• As lead counsel, successfully argued and obtained favorable reversals of Appellate decisions in two matters before the North Carolina Supreme Court.

ARTICLES, PRESENTATIONS, AND PUBLICATIONS

• “Litigation, Insurance & Immunities,” N.C. Municipal Attorneys Winter Conference, 2012
• “Handling the Police Liability Claim,” National Business Institute, 2011
• “Unemployment Compensation Update,” The Employers Association, 2011
• Various public risk and training seminars, 2009 – 2011
• “Free Speech Issues in the Workplace,” N.C. Municipal Attorneys, 2004
• “Interplay between Workers’ Compensation, ADA, and FMLA,” N.C. Association of Educators, 2002
• “Police Liability in North Carolina,” Lorman Seminar, 2002
• “REDA Claims and Due Process Issues,” N.C. League of Municipalities Conference, 2001

Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP

In 1992, with one office and 14 attorneys, Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP opened its doors.

Today we have more than 80 attorneys serving clients across the state of North Carolina and beyond, with offices located in Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, and Shallotte. We have built a reputation as a firm of tough-minded and tenacious trial lawyers who will work with you at all stages of the litigation process, from avoiding incidents that may lead to lawsuits to navigating the complex state and federal court systems. Our services cover 27 different practice areas including admiralty and maritime law, business law, elder and estate planning, medical malpractice, land condemnation and eminent domain, family law, worker’s compensation and more.

Our attorneys and staff are highly regarded for their professionalism by their colleagues and other members of the local and state bars across North Carolina.

With a culture deeply rooted in the core values of Teamwork, Reputation, and Client Services, we’re focused on serving you—in the courtroom and beyond.

Lilia S. Marek

Firm: Rougeux & Associates
Location: New Braunfels – TX

• 595 S. Castell
  New Braunfels
  Texas 78130

Gary F. Lynch handles complex and class litigation on behalf of employees and consumers.  In his 29 years of practice, Gary has established a national practice in the areas of employee wage rights, privacy rights, data and cyber-security, and consumer protection.  In 2012, Gary served as Counsel of Record for the plaintiff-respondent in the United States Supreme Court case captioned Symczyk v. Genesis, a wage and hour collective action which addressed the ability of a defendant to moot a plaintiff’s claim.  In 2018, Gary served as lead counsel for the plaintiffs in the Pennsylvania Supreme Court case captioned Dittman v. UPMC, an employee class action in which the PA Supreme Court recognized an employer’s duty to reasonably safeguard electronically-stored employee data.

As a founding partner of Carlson Lynch, Gary has handled more than 100 class actions, in numerous federal and state courts throughout the country involving federal and state wage and hour laws, as well as various consumer protection and data privacy claims. Gary has achieved numerous multi-million dollar recoveries on behalf of plaintiff classes and has obtained significant favorable court decisions in the wage and hour, data privacy and cyber-security areas.  Gary has been selected by various federal courts to serve as lead counsel in multi-district litigation, including In re Equifax Data Security Breach, In re Home Depot Data Security Breach, and In re FedLoan Student Loan Servicing.   Gary is a frequent local and national lecturer on wage and hour issues, as well as privacy and data security.

In Gary’s words: “These days, individual citizens entering the American marketplace, whether as employees or consumers, often find themselves in a completely powerless bargaining position. While policy makers have attempted often to level the playing field on which goods, services and labor are traded, these governmental policies, which are intended to restrain business from acting in a fundamentally unfair manner, remain ineffective unless and until they are meaningfully enforced. In my law practice, I view my role as assisting that enforcement process. I represent the “little guy” in the American marketplace. Given that my one grandfather worked in a steel mill and the other in a coal mine, my job is consistent with both the heritage of my family and the Western Pennsylvania region of our country where I was born and raised, where I raised my children, and where I continue to live. I believe in what I do.”

Carlson Lynch

Carlson Lynch is a small firm with a big purpose – to employ the same level of sophistication that the country’s largest law firms muster on behalf of their institutional clients on behalf of individual consumers and employees who might otherwise lack the means to purchase that level of sophistication in the legal marketplace. Carlson Lynch, a national “boutique” law firm with sixteen attorneys and offices in Pittsburgh and San Diego, traces its roots to, and is premised upon, the tension between our country’s unparalleled promise of capitalism and the collateral damage that is wrought when the titans of industry and finance fail to follow the rules of the marketplace. Carlson Lynch was conceived as a law firm to provide a voice for those individuals who are harmed when capitalism shrugs.

Attorneys at Carlson Lynch litigate complex class-action matters involving consumer fraud, data breach, privacy and cyber-security, labor and employment, disability access, and wage and hour laws, in federal and state courts throughout the country. The firm is a nationally-recognized leader in the privacy and cyber-security area, and has positioned itself as one of the nation’s top law firms pursuing the rights of the disabled with regard to public accommodation accessibility.