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Michele Beilke

Michele Beilke

Work Department

Labor and Employment

Position

Partner

Career

Ms. Beilke is a partner in Hunton Andrews Kurth’s Labor and Employment group. She has extensive experience efficiently and successfully litigating single-plaintiff discrimination and multi-plaintiff cases in state and federal courts.  She also has considerable national jury trial and arbitration experience.

She litigates state and national wage and hour class actions, and PAGA actions.  Ms. Beilke truly partners with her clients as an extension of the Human Resources Department by providing advice and counsel on complicated write-ups and terminations, California and FLSA wage and hour compliance issues, FMLA, CFRA and ADA leave accommodations and leave policies, WARN requirements, and non-solicitation and non-compete agreements. She prepares responses to EEOC and DFEH administrative charges and has represented employers in connection with Department of Labor audits. She has experience arbitration experience which includes two to three trials a year.  Her practice also includes speaking to in-house attorneys, human resources professionals and supervisors, conducting sexual harassment training for employers, drafting employment agreements and developing and implementing workplace policies.

Ms. Beilke is admitted to practice before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the US District Court for the Central, Northern and Southern Districts of California.

Memberships

Admitted to the California State Bar

Education

JD, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, 1997 BA, Political Science, Law & Society Minor, University of Southern California, 1992

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