Rachel L. Romanello

Partner

Los Angeles
633 West Fifth Street
Suite 4000
Los Angeles, California 90071

Phone: 213.680.5058
Fax: 213.250.7900
Email: [email protected]

Ms. Romanello specializes in employment litigation and general employment counseling in the following areas:

• Sexual Harassment Litigation
• Wrongful Termination Litigation
• Employment Discrimination Litigation
• Retaliation Litigation
• Wage and Hour Law Litigation
• Employment Counseling

Ms. Romanello has been practicing law since 2005. She began her career doing medical malpractice work in Chicago, Illinois, where she went to law school. In 2008, she moved to Los Angeles and passed the California Bar. She has been working at Lewis Brisbois since December 2008 and has been specializing in the area of Employment and Labor Litigation since 2009. She was made Partner in 2013.

Ms. Romanello has experience in all aspects of employment litigation including defending employers in matters brought before the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement. She conducts independent investigations of workplace harassment, discrimination and retaliation, and defends employers through all stages of litigation. Ms. Romanello has extensive experience in drafting law and motion, responding to discovery, taking and defending depositions, arguing substantive and dispositive motions, and attending and participating in mediations and arbitrations. Ms. Romanello has obtained summary judgment awards and has second-chaired two trials and one arbitration. Most recently, in 2013, Ms. Romanello second-chaired an arbitration which involved a large employer and five individual respondents and involved claims relating to sexual harassment and constructive termination. She actively participated in arbitration by drafting pre and post hearing briefs and examining several witnesses and respondents at the arbitration hearing. Ms. Romanello and her Partner successfully defended all of the claims with an award in favor of all respondents.

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