Sheppard Mullin issued the following announcement on Aug 16.
Sheppard Mullin is pleased to announce that partner Samantha C. Grant has been elected Chair-Elect of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Labor and Employment Law. Grant is the first woman of color elected to that position.
She assumed the role on August 13 at the conclusion of the ABA Annual Meeting in San Francisco. She will become Section Chair in August 2020 and will serve a one-year term. With more than 20,000 members, the Section of Labor and Employment Law is one of the ABA’s largest and most active sections.
“It’s an incredible honor to be elected as Chair-Elect of the Section of Labor and Employment Law,” said Grant. “My involvement with the Section has enriched and grown my practice and provided me the opportunity to collaborate with attorneys around the globe to address matters of importance to labor and employment lawyers, our clients and our governments.”
As a partner in Sheppard Mullin’s Labor and Employment practice group, Grant represents employers in administrative, arbitration and trial proceedings in labor and employment matters, including single-plaintiff, class and collective actions. She has extensive experience litigating discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, breach of contract, fraud, defamation, trade secret, covenants not to compete, and unfair competition cases, among others. She also advises clients on litigation avoidance strategies and local, state and federal compliance matters, as well as conducts management and workforce training. The insight and experience she gained while on a two-year secondment, as in-house employment counsel for a Fortune 50 company, was invaluable in her becoming a particularly pragmatic outside counsel.
Grant is also Vice-Chair of the Minority Corporate Counsel Association’s Advisory Board and a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Among other accolades, the Daily Journal has named her to its lists of “Top Labor & Employment Lawyers in California” and “Top Women Litigators in California” and the Los Angeles Business Journal has recognized her as one of the “Most Influential Minority Lawyers.” She frequently speaks and writes on developments related to labor and employment law, alternative dispute resolution, diversity and inclusion, and ethics. Samantha received her Honors B.A. from the University of Toronto and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law.
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