DLA Piper LLP (US)

Employment; Emerging Growth and Venture Capital; Global Governance and Compliance; Industrials; Healthcare

Partner

As a trial attorney and litigator, Holly Lake has a breadth of experience defending clients across industries not only in single/multiple plaintiff cases but also defending employers in wage-and-hour class, collective and private attorney general representative actions under California laws and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Title VII and the Fair Employment and Housing Act. She acts as a partner to her clients, making it her business to understand their needs and goals, and then developing a legal strategy that's unique to the case at hand. Her approach has resulted in success before the Court of Appeal, trial victories and summary judgment wins.

She is also an advisor to her clients, partnering on all matters related to employment. Her experience includes offering advice and counsel on: OFCCP compliance and affirmative action program development; DEI initiatives; S-SEG strategies; pay equity analyses; strategies related to personnel movement and adverse impact; and day to day advice related to the management of personnel.

Global Advisory Board Member, Women in Law Empowerment Forum LLC,; Member, Law360 Employment Editorial Advisory Board; National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), faculty member, teaching trial advocacy at the North West Regional Trial Training Program in Seattle, in 2009, 2010 and 2012 − "Building Trial Skills: Southern California," for practicing attorneys in Southern California − "Effective Advocate Training Program," for practitioners in dependency court funded by the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Grant to teach trial skills to attorneys in California; Civil Referee Assisted Settlement Hearing Program of the Los Angeles Superior Court, Volunteer Settlement Officer; Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference Lawyer Representative, July 2012-June 2016; Alumni Association for the University of California at Berkeley, Board of Directors, 2005-2009 – Vice President, 2007-2008

J.D., New York Law School; M.P.H., San Jose State University; A.B., University of California at Berkeley