SABRINA A. BELDNER
Partner and Department Chair
McGuireWoods
Sabrina Beldner is the driving force behind McGuireWoods’ highly successful California employment law practice and has served as chair of the 60-plus-lawyer national Labor & Employment Department since 2020. Beldner’s recent successes show why clients nationwide seek her out as go-to counsel to navigate high-stakes discrimination, wage-and-hour, and traditional labor litigation.
In August 2022, Beldner helped defeat class certification for a Fortune 500 retailer in a putative wage-and-hour class action. After reviewing the retailer’s opposition to class certification, the plaintiff voluntarily abandoned six of her proposed seven subclasses. The district court then denied certification on the grounds that the plaintiff couldn’t meet FRCP 23’s typicality and adequacy of representation requirements because, unlike the majority of putative class members he sought to represent, the plaintiff wasn’t bound by the retailer’s arbitration agreement and had no standing to challenge its enforceability or validity on behalf of other putative class members.
