Associate

Los Angeles

Direct: 213.891.5161

Office: 213.891.0700

mlopez@buchalter.com

Bar Admissions

California

Languages

Spanish

Overview

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Michelle Lopez is a member of Buchalter’s Labor and Employment practice group in the Firm’s Los Angeles Office. Ms. Lopez represents employers in litigation involving claims of employment discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, and retaliation.  She also routinely represents clients in class action and representative PAGA cases involving wage-and-hour allegations, including failure to pay regular and overtime wages, meal period and rest break violations, misclassification issues, piece-rate pay agreements, and reimbursement claims.

Focusing her practice primarily on employment and consumer protection class actions, Ms. Lopez also has ample experience representing both employees and consumers.  Additionally, she previously interned in the Washington, D.C. office of Sanford Heisler Sharp, and for the Novo Nordisk pharmaceutical company in Princeton, New Jersey.

Admissions

  • California
  • U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Education

  • Syracuse University College of Law, J.D.
  • San Francisco State University, B.S., Political Science

    and served as a Legislative Intern for the United States Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi.

  • Los Angeles County Bar Association

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