Maria Rodriguez
USA Guide 2024
Band 3 : Labor & Employment
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About
Provided by Maria Rodriguez
Practice Areas
Maria C. Rodriguez advises US and international corporations with regard to employment law compliance and mergers and acquisitions, and defends employment cases and class action litigation. She is a trusted advisor to clients helping them avoid or resolve disputes and protect resources through proactive and strategic planning. Maria is experienced working with clients in the sports, media and entertainment, technology, food and restaurant, airline, transportation and distribution, healthcare and fashion industries.
Maria advises on and defends against class, collective, representative and individual claims arising under state and federal employment laws such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), the California Family Rights Act (CFRA) and the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Her litigation experience includes wage-and-hour, harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, breach of employment contract, unlawful business practices, non-solicitation, trade secrets and other employment-related cases. She has successfully litigated dismissals by way of, early motions to dismiss, summary judgment and leveraging cases early to produce nuisance value resolutions. At trial, she has produced wins in multiple-plaintiff wage-and-hour, retaliation, discrimination, and wrongful termination cases and achieved a defense verdict in a high-profile, eight-week jury trial involving UNRUH civil rights claims brought by 26 plaintiffs against eight defendants.
Maria has extensive knowledge in the complexities involved in doing business in California, across the United States, and abroad, and her fluency in Spanish supports her work with Spanish and Latin America based clients. She defends employers in proceedings before governmental agencies, such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, the California Labor Commissioner, the US Department of Labor, the Department of Justice, and city and state government agencies that enforce employment.
Maria serves as the global co-head of McDermott’s Employment Practice Group.
View more at: https://www.mwe.com/en/team/r/rodriguez-maria-c
Professional Memberships
Los Angeles County Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section, executive committee member
Cuban-American Bar Association, former president
Women In Film, executive member
CAN-Do, board of directors,
Natasha Watley Foundation, board of directors
Personal
JD, Loyola Law School Los Angeles; BA, University of California, Los Angeles
Chambers Review
USA
Maria Rodriguez takes on a range of employment law disputes, including defending against discrimination claims on behalf of clients such as entertainment companies.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"The thing that differentiates her is that she is not afraid to think outside the box. She is open-minded and will develop novel ideas."
"We love working with Maria. Her knowledge and skill set are best in class. She's practical and very easy to work with."
"Maria is very responsive, she engages in creative thinking and she has contacts around the world."
"The thing that differentiates her is that she is not afraid to think outside the box. She is open-minded and will develop novel ideas."
"We love working with Maria. Her knowledge and skill set are best in class. She's practical and very easy to work with."
"Maria is very responsive, she engages in creative thinking and she has contacts around the world."