MARA CURTIS
Partner
Reed Smith LLP
Mara Curtis is a partner in the Labor & Employment Group of Reed Smith. Her practice focuses on counseling and litigating wage and hour matters. At only 38, Curtis has already distinguished herself as one of the nation’s leading lawyers in wage and hour law for cutting-edge industries, particularly the gig-economy, transportation, health care and retail sectors. She has played a lead role in many of the most significant wage and hour cases of the recent past – many of which involve high-risk operational, classification and/or business model challenges that make them fundamentally different from other employment litigation – including obtaining the first published decision by the Ninth Circuit.
Overall, Curtis has handled more than 100 class/representative actions over her young career, and she is currently lead counsel on more than 25 class/representative action lawsuits in California, including nine in the transportation industry.
