Contra Costa County Employment Lawyers
Compare 162 top rated California attorneys serving Contra Costa County.
![Glicel E. Sumagaysay]( "Glicel E. Sumagaysay")
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Glicel E. Sumagaysay
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
(888) 201-8282
1990 N. California Blvd.
Suite 870
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Free ConsultationEmployment
Alliant International University
The Law Office of Glicel Sumagaysay handles employment matters as follows:
*Federal employee, public entity employee, and private employee representation in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC"), federal court, Department of Fair Housing and Employment (“DFEH”), and state courts;
*Claims include wrongful termination; retaliation; discrimination on the basis of disability, race, gender, and other protected statuses;
*wage and hour matters with the Department of Labor Standards and Enforcement (“DLSE”) and courts;
*small business employer compliance with California and federal law.
![Erik J Christensen]( "Erik J Christensen")
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Erik J Christensen
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 3 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals and Business
University of California Hastings College of the Law and University of California - Irvine
Erik is rated one of California's rising stars in the field of Labor and Employment Law by the American Institute of Legal Advocates. He is now an associate at Littler Mendelson, the world's top-rated Labor and Employment Law firm.
Erik is a graduate of UC Hastings, College of the Law, where he worked at the California Supreme Court and at the First District Court of Appeal, two of the most prestigious opportunities provided to law students in California. Erik also served as a law clerk for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Victim Impact Program (sometimes referred to as the “Special...
![Len Watkins]( "Len Watkins")
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Len Watkins
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Antitrust, Business and IP
University of San Francisco School of Law
A resident of Oakland, Len spent much of his legal career with prestigious, top-ranked, San Francisco law firms. Mr. Watkins brings the same level of expertise, and standard of excellence, to his practice in the East Bay. Focusing on consumer bankruptcy and business law, Mr. Watkins’ depth of experience and training include:
A Masters of Business Administration, concentrating on finance, from the University of California, at Davis
A stock brokerage license (inactive) from the National Association of Securities Dealers
A California Real Estate Broker’s license
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Norris & Norris (now...
![Christopher Light]( "Christopher Light")
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Christopher Light
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
(720) 330-2848
1990 N. California Blvd.
Suite #800
Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Employment and Personal Injury
California Western School of Law
Mr. Light firmly believes in the power of empathy and humanity. His strength of empathy and unique personal experience with tragedy has allowed him to connect with clients who’ve suffered their own profound losses. Mr. Light is honored to represent and advocate for individuals and families suffering from the universe of challenges that inherently follow a traumatic brain injury.
Nobody expects or can anticipate what follows a brain injury, even a “mild” trauma. Growing up, Mr. Light was reminded on a daily basis of the strength, determination, love, patience and understanding necessary to endure the aftermath of a life-altering event....
![Jon Paul Webster]( "Jon Paul Webster")
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Jon Paul Webster
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business and Real Estate
John F. Kennedy School of Law and California State University - Sacramento
I am a former police officer and deputy district attorney in Contra Costa County. I received my Bachelor's Degree from California State University Sacramento and later went on to law school at John F. Kennedy University. As principal attorney, I guide the firm’s staff and manage major cases and matters on behalf of individual and business clients.I have tried numerous cases to verdict and have appeared before the California Court of Appeal, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal.
Our firm primarily focuses on business litigation with a strong concentration of assisting small businesses with wage and hour claims. Other...
![Rhonda Darlene Shelton-Kraeber]( "Rhonda Darlene Shelton-Kraeber")
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Rhonda Darlene Shelton-Kraeber
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Employment and Business
University of California Hastings College of the Law
I have been practicing all aspects of employment law for more than 20 years, including representation of both employers and employees. I assist with all types of employment contracts, wage and hour issues, employment discrimination issues including sexual harassment, employee manuals, workplace safety, wrongful termination, discipline issues, and so on. And when a lawsuit cannot be avoided, I will also handle your litigation needs.
![Mr. Steven L. Derby]( "Mr. Steven L. Derby")
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Mr. Steven L. Derby
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
After 22 years as a trial attorney, I have decided to limit my practice to furthering the cause of disability access and ending disability discrimination in the workplace, at home and in public places. If you are disabled temporarily or permanently, you have special rights but no government agency to enforce them. If you think you have been the victim of discrimination, call us now for a free consultation.
![Jordan Jay Yudien]( "Jordan Jay Yudien")
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Jordan Jay Yudien
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Employment, Business and Real Estate
Washington Univ School of Law
When you need an attorney with high-level experience and an aggressive litigation style, then Yudien Law Firm, P.C. is here for you. Located in Walnut Creek while serving the San Francisco Bay Area and the surrounding cities, our firm is dedicated to providing the best legal counsel and representation in a variety of specialties including: business, real estate, and labor law. We believe that you deserve a dedicated and experienced local San Francisco Bay Area lawyer to protect your interests, and we stand firmly in our commitment to professional ethics in each and every case we accept. If you need...
![Hillary Johns]( "Hillary Johns")
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Hillary Johns
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEmployment, Business, Entertainment & Sports and IP
Ms. Johns is a civil trial lawyer who has tried more than one hundred cases to verdict. She graduated from Occidental College in 1990 and Golden Gate University School of Law in 1993 where she graduated with Dean’s List and class honors. She is licensed to practice law in California, the California Central and Northern U.S. Federal District Courts, and in the District of Columbia. She is fluent in Spanish and trained in German and French.
Ms. Johns practices in the areas of civil litigation, business law, torts, employment law and entertainment law. She is an AV rated...
![Mark Lain Venardi]( "Mark Lain Venardi")
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Mark Lain Venardi
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Employment, Maritime and Personal Injury
UC Hastings COL
Mark Venardi was born in 1962 in Seattle, Washington. He was raised in Peoria, IL, a Midwest blue collar town. He enlisted in the United States Coast Guard and proudly served from 1980 through 1985. He spent the first two years on a sea going tug performing search and rescue and marine law enforcement from the Grand Banks to the Windward Passage aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Tamaroa, which was the Coast Guard vessel that performed the rescue in “The Perfect Storm.”
![John Ward Schilt]( "John Ward Schilt")
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John Ward Schilt
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Construction and Personal Injury
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
![Douglas A. Prutton]( "Douglas A. Prutton")
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Douglas A. Prutton
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Personal Injury
Univ of Illinois COL and University of Illinois College of Law
Mr. Prutton graduated with high honors in 1979 from Michigan State University with a B.S. in Forestry. He received his law degree in 1982 (J.D. cum laude) from one of the top schools in the country, the University of Illinois College of Law. From 1982 - 1985 he practiced law with Baxter & Hammond in Grand Rapids, Michigan representing insurance companies and corporations. From 1985 - 1987 he represented similar interests while an associate with Low, Ball & Lynch in San Francisco.
In 1987, Mr. Prutton opened his own law office in the Bay Area, switched sides...
![Beth Wolf Mora]( "Beth Wolf Mora")
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Beth Wolf Mora
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Civil Rights and Elder
Golden Gate University School of Law
![John Francis Martin]( "John Francis Martin")
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John Francis Martin
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 50 years of experience
Employment, Animal, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
San Francisco Law Sch
![Guy Ellery Louie]( "Guy Ellery Louie")
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Guy Ellery Louie
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Employment, Animal, Business and IP
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
![Rand L. Stephens]( "Rand L. Stephens")
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Rand L. Stephens
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Consumer
![Carla Vanessa Minnard]( "Carla Vanessa Minnard")
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Carla Vanessa Minnard
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 27 years of experience
Employment
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
![Eric Olaf Nieman]( "Eric Olaf Nieman")
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Eric Olaf Nieman
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 35 years of experience
Employment
Golden Gate Univ School of Law
Kevin Robert Allen
Contra Costa County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Employment and Consumer
Santa Clara University School of Law
![Devin Coyle]( "Devin Coyle")
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Devin Coyle
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Civil Rights
UCLA School of Law
Oakland, California-based civil rights lawyer representing employees and tenants in cases involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination.
![Vincent Tong]( "Vincent Tong")
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Vincent Tong
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Employment, Business, IP and Trademarks
Santa Clara University School of Law
Vincent Tong is an award winning, community oriented lawyer. He is the founder of TONG LAW, an employment business law firm located in beautiful downtown Oakland, California. Vincent exclusively represents employees in employment litigation and businesses in business-to-business disputes. In his business transactions practice, Vincent counsels individuals on forming and growing their social ventures. Connect with Vincent online at www.tong-law.com.
![Bryan Jeffrey Schwartz]( "Bryan Jeffrey Schwartz")
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Bryan Jeffrey Schwartz
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals and Civil Rights
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Bryan Schwartz is an Oakland, California-based attorney dedicated to helping employees protect their rights in the workplace. He has fought prohibited discrimination, retaliation, and harassment, obtained reasonable accommodations for disabled employees, vindicated whistleblowers' rights, and ensured that corporations pay workers all wages they are owed. He has successfully litigated individual and class action complaints nationwide, helping to recover millions of dollars for thousands of employees, forcing corporations and Government agencies to change their practices and punish wrongdoers.
Bryan Schwartz is also one of the few Bay Area-based attorneys with extensive experience representing Federal employees in their unique Merit Systems...
![Jonathan H. Siegel]( "Jonathan H. Siegel")
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Jonathan H. Siegel
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 45 years of experience
Employment
Golden Gate University School of Law
Jonathan Siegel, the founding partner of Siegel LeWitter Malkani has spent over thirty years representing employees. His experience runs the full range of cases from individual jury trials to class actions to arbitration and administrative hearings. Jonathan has enjoyed outstanding success in all forums, while building an enviable reputation as a formidable advocate, but one whose word can be trusted.
Jonathan has successfully tried individual cases to juries, judges and arbitrators. He has received substantial six and seven figure jury awards in discrimination cases related to age (Tetzchner v. Unitank - Contra Costa), pregnancy (Byer v. Haider - San Francisco) and...
![Peter Scott Rukin]( "Peter Scott Rukin")
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Peter Scott Rukin
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
Employment and Civil Rights
New York University School of Law
As a partner with San Francisco's Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP, Peter Rukin represents Bay Area clients in a wide array of complex litigation matters, including employment, wage and hour, and business disputes. Mr. Rukin has built a reputation as a thoughtful and strong advocate for his clients, whatever their disputes may be. Mr. Rukin specializes in complex litigation, with a focus on wage and hour and equal employment opportunity claims. Since 2003, as class counsel he has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of thousands of California employees and consumers. Peter also represents clients with respect...
![John Francis Hyland]( "John Francis Hyland")
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John Francis Hyland
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Employment and Civil Rights
Golden Gate University School of Law
John Hyland is a partner with Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP. He practices exclusively in the area of employment law. John was Of Counsel with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the firm’s San Francisco office where he advised and represented companies in State and Federal court actions covering all areas of employment law, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, disability law, employee privacy, employee leaves, and wage and hour issues. John regularly conducts training seminars and presents on a wide array of employment law issues. Law & Politics Magazine selected John as one of its Northern California Super Lawyers...
![Jody I. LeWitter]( "Jody I. LeWitter")
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Jody I. LeWitter
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
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University of Michigan Law School
"I just believe there ought to be a way to achieve justice in the workplace, and I don't mind fighting for it!"
Jody LeWitter is a partner at Siegel LeWitter Malkani and has been an attorney in private practice for 30 years. She is passionate about representing employees in discrimination and wrongful termination cases and is known for her vigorous advocacy of employees. She has had great success in court, negotiations/mediations and in arbitrations, and has been recognized by other lawyers as a "go to" employment lawyer for her determination and innovative strategies.
Jody has represented employees from all walks of life...
![Dylan Hughes]( "Dylan Hughes")
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Dylan Hughes
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
Employment, Consumer, Personal Injury and Products Liability
UC Hastings COL
Dylan Hughes is a partner at Gibbs Law Group and of counsel to Girard Gibbs LLP specializing in the prosecution of class actions. He represents plaintiffs in cases involving defective products, telecommunications, credit cards, product liability, credit repair, employment misclassification and wage and hour disputes under state and federal laws. Mr. Hughes has extensive experience prosecuting complex automobile-defect cases and helped achieve recoveries on behalf of class members in the In Re General Motors Dex-Cool Cases (settlement of $50 to $800 cash reimbursements per class member vehicle repair) and In Re General Motors Cases, JCCP No. 4396, a certified...
![Pamela Kong]( "Pamela Kong")
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Pamela Kong
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Employment, Civil Rights and Landlord Tenant
Golden Gate University School of Law
![Arthur William Lazear]( "Arthur William Lazear")
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Arthur William Lazear
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 44 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
Arthur Lazear has practiced law for more than 40 years, helping to obtain successful results for worthy clients nationwide. Mr. Lazear has prosecuted some of the biggest class actions ever litigated in employment law, but has never abandoned his level of personal attention to each client, which is the firm’s hallmark.
Mr. Lazear’s father was a janitor, an immigrant from Ukraine who worked nights in a tireless effort to provide his children the hope of a better life, that they might realize the American Dream. The example set by his father inspired Mr. Lazear’s lifelong commitment to protecting and enforcing the...
![Randall Aiman-Smith]( "Randall Aiman-Smith")
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Randall Aiman-Smith
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer
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I was fortunate. Despite never finishing high school or college, I was able – albeit with a lot of hard work – to gain admission to, and to excel at, one of the finest law schools in the country: U.C. Berkeley’s School of Law. While I was there, I was privileged to be an editor for the California Law Review and a Member of the Moot Court Board, advising on brief writing and appellate advocacy for other students. After I left law school, in my early years of practice, I taught legal writing and appellate advocacy at University of California,...
![Spencer C. Young]( "Spencer C. Young")
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Spencer C. Young
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Free ConsultationOffers Video ConferencingVideo ConfAlameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 16 years of experience
Employment, Business, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Golden Gate University School of Law
Spencer practices employment, civil rights and personal injury law. He is dedicated to representing employees in employment disputes and individuals and their families in personal injury cases.
Since 2005, Spencer has litigated discrimination, wrongful termination, wage and hour, retaliation, and other employment disputes, such as contract breach and commission cases. He also litigates vehicle accidents, premises liability, wrongful death, and civil rights claims. His legal experience dates back to 1996. He has appeared in Northern District Federal Courts, California State Superior Courts, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Merit...
![Latika M. Malkani]( "Latika M. Malkani")
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Latika M. Malkani
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Employment and Appeals
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Latika Malkani joined Siegel LeWitter Malkani in 1996, and since then has fought to preserve and enforce the rights of women and men working in a variety of professions. Latika's advocacy has included tireless representation of employees seeking justice and improved conditions in the workplace. Latika has a proven record of successful results, and has helped hundreds of employees establish better working conditions, negotiate severance and post-separation packages, as well as obtain fair and just compensation through enforcement of state and federal laws. Latika believes that no employee should be made to suffer inequality or humiliation in order to earn...
![Robert Salinas]( "Robert Salinas")
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Robert Salinas
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Landlord Tenant
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
I am an accomplished California attorney. I represent employees and tenants in a broad range of Employment, Landlord-Tenant and Civil Rights matters.
Dedicated to exceptional advocacy, I am diligent in fighting for the rights of my clients. I am genuine, experienced, and committed to justice.
I am also active in the community, currently volunteering at both Centro Legal and the Western Service Workers Association where I provide pro bono assistance to low-wage workers.
![Annie B. Banh]( "Annie B. Banh")
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Annie B. Banh
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 4 years of experience
Employment, Civil Rights and Landlord Tenant
Golden Gate University School of Law
![Fulvio Francisco Cajina]( "Fulvio Francisco Cajina")
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Fulvio Francisco Cajina
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Products Liability
Cornell University
I was born in Latin America and grew up in San Francisco. A product of the Bay Area, I studied economics at UC Berkeley before moving to Washington, DC, where I worked at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve. In 2003, I embarked on my legal studies at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Upon graduation, I worked as a corporate associate in Manhattan at a boutique international law firm. There I had the opportunity to work on a wide array of corporate transactions, from financing the construction of a hotel in NYC, structuring investments...
![Janelle J. Smith]( "Janelle J. Smith")
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Janelle J. Smith
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 10 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Business
University of San Francisco School of Law
I help clients with their employment, business, and start-up needs. I also represent clients involved in civil litigation. Please contact me to find out how I can help you with your legal needs.
![Laura Herron Weber]( "Laura Herron Weber")
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Laura Herron Weber
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
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UC Hastings COL
I represent employees in their disputes with their employers, and victims of personal injury. I take the time to get to know the unique story of each client, and understand how termination, injury, or other unlawful conduct has affected their life. I represent women who have been terminated because of pregnancy or because they have taken time off to care for their children. I represent older workers who have been terminated after many years of loyal service. I also help clients who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents or other incidents of negligence.
![Jessica Riggin]( "Jessica Riggin")
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Jessica Riggin
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Employment
Columbia Law School
Jessica is a partner at Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP and specializes in litigating employment law cases on behalf of employees. From violations of wage and hour laws to sexual harassment and discrimination, Jessica has represented both individuals and groups of people in class actions. She also advises executives in pre-litigation matters such as severance agreements and employment agreements. If you have an employment law issue in the Bay Area, please contact her office today and set up a free consultation.
![Christina Margaret Kotowski]( "Christina Margaret Kotowski")
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Christina Margaret Kotowski
Alameda County, CA Employment Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Employment
UC Hastings COL
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