Jill A.Porcaro
Partner
Labor & Employment
jporcaro@seyfarth.com
Jill focuses her practice on wage and hour class action litigation, complex litigation, and labor and employment law counseling.
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Jill has worked with employers to review their wage and hour practices, conduct workplace investigations, and provided employee anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training. She has worked with national employers in various industries, including retail, pharmaceutical, health care, insurance, staffing, security, communications, entertainment, trucking, airline, manufacturing, hospitality, and financial. Jill has also represented public sector clients.
Jill has chaired jury and bench trials, represented clients at class certification hearings and evidentiary hearings, and represented employers in arbitration. She has also chaired administrative hearings before the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, and prepared briefs for Sarbanes-Oxley proceedings before the Department of Labor. Jill has prepared EEOC and DFEH position statements on behalf of employers.
Jill often speaks at seminars on a variety of topics, including wage and hour law, wrongful termination, unlawful harassment, discrimination, and reasonable accommodation of disabilities. Jill has performed pro bono work on behalf of parents adopting special needs children and has authored handbooks for nonprofit organizations.
Jill has chaired jury and bench trials, represented clients at class certification hearings and evidentiary hearings, and represented employers in arbitration. She has also chaired administrative hearings before the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, and prepared briefs for Sarbanes-Oxley proceedings before the Department of Labor. Jill has prepared EEOC and DFEH position statements on behalf of employers.
Jill often speaks at seminars on a variety of topics, including wage and hour law, wrongful termination, unlawful harassment, discrimination, and reasonable accommodation of disabilities. Jill has performed pro bono work on behalf of parents adopting special needs children and has authored handbooks for nonprofit organizations.
- JD, Loyola Marymount University School of Law
Dean's List Honors (1995-96; 1996-97)
- BA, University of California, Los Angeles
- California
- Colorado
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
- US District Court, Southern District of California
- Colorado Supreme Court
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- Chapter Contributor, “Chapter 7 - Defending Opt-Out Class Actions Under State Wage and Hour Laws,” Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, ALM Law Journal Press (2012). Definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation.
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Jill focuses her practice on wage and hour class action litigation, complex litigation, and labor and employment law counseling.
More About Jill
Jill has worked with employers to review their wage and hour practices, conduct workplace investigations, and provided employee anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training. She has worked with national employers in various industries, including retail, pharmaceutical, health care, insurance, staffing, security, communications, entertainment, trucking, airline, manufacturing, hospitality, and financial. Jill has also represented public sector clients.
Jill has chaired jury and bench trials, represented clients at class certification hearings and evidentiary hearings, and represented employers in arbitration. She has also chaired administrative hearings before the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, and prepared briefs for Sarbanes-Oxley proceedings before the Department of Labor. Jill has prepared EEOC and DFEH position statements on behalf of employers.
Jill often speaks at seminars on a variety of topics, including wage and hour law, wrongful termination, unlawful harassment, discrimination, and reasonable accommodation of disabilities. Jill has performed pro bono work on behalf of parents adopting special needs children and has authored handbooks for nonprofit organizations.
Jill has chaired jury and bench trials, represented clients at class certification hearings and evidentiary hearings, and represented employers in arbitration. She has also chaired administrative hearings before the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, and prepared briefs for Sarbanes-Oxley proceedings before the Department of Labor. Jill has prepared EEOC and DFEH position statements on behalf of employers.
Jill often speaks at seminars on a variety of topics, including wage and hour law, wrongful termination, unlawful harassment, discrimination, and reasonable accommodation of disabilities. Jill has performed pro bono work on behalf of parents adopting special needs children and has authored handbooks for nonprofit organizations.
- JD, Loyola Marymount University School of Law
Dean's List Honors (1995-96; 1996-97)
- BA, University of California, Los Angeles
- California
- Colorado
- US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
- US District Court, Southern District of California
- Colorado Supreme Court
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- Listed in Southern California Super Lawyers for Employment Litigation (Thomson Reuters) (2009-2020)
- Co-Author, "Paid Leave and Coronavirus Considerations — Colorado Emergency Paid Sick Leave Rules in Effect," Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 12, 2020)
- Chapter Contributor, “Chapter 7 - Defending Opt-Out Class Actions Under State Wage and Hour Laws,” Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, ALM Law Journal Press (2012). Definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation.
- Co-Presenter, "The Nitty Gritty on COMPS Order #36: Just How Rockier Is It For Colorado Employers?," Webinar, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 19, 2020)