Sabrina Shadi is an experienced, full-service employment attorney, who represents management side clients of varying sizes and industries, including hospitality, manufacturing, transportation, retail, technology and healthcare. She handles administrative agency investigations and claims, and litigates in state and federal courts regarding a broad range of issues arising from the employer-employee relationship. She has notable experience handling allegations of disability discrimination and failure to accommodate disabilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act and California law, as well as other equal employment opportunity related claims such as age, sex, race, national origin and religious discrimination and harassment claims. Sabrina also has significant experience representing clients in wage and hour matters, including class and representative Private Attorneys General Act actions. Additionally, she represents clients in matters relating to trade secret misappropriation, unfair competition, workers’ compensation discrimination and Cal-OSHA issues. Sabrina also regularly advises buyers and sellers in transactional matters regarding employment law issues.
Sabrina further dedicates much of her practice to counseling employers on all aspects of personnel matters, including conducting background checks and other hiring practices, leave administration, performance management, terminations and workforce reductions, including WARN compliance. She also regularly provides training for clients and handles investigations of employee complaints, including sensitive investigations of high-level executives. Additionally, she regularly develops employee handbooks and policy and procedure manuals. Sabrina is also co-leader of the firm’s Employment Deal team.