Kate Gold
Partner
Proskauer
With over 25 years of experience representing clients in a range of industries, across all areas of employment law, partner Kate Gold is a versatile litigator with experience in all types of employment-related suits facing California and national employers. Her expertise includes class and collective actions, discrimination, retaliation and harassment, non-compete and wage/hour matters. Gold also regularly conducts high-level workplace investigations and is a trusted advisor to clients on reductions in force and compliance with state and federal employment laws and regulations, including those arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gold’s recent accomplishments include her work for Arrowhead Products in a wage and hour class action involving 1,200 class members. Gold secured a favorable resolution for the client.
Nina Huerta
Co-Chair, Board of Directors and Managing Partner of Los Angeles Office
Locke Lord LLP
In 2000, Nina Huerta moved to Los Angeles to pursue her legal education at USC and was the first in her immediate family to pursue law. She joined Locke Lord as a first-year associate and was elected to partnership in January 2012. She was appointed office managing partner for Los Angeles in June 2016 and became one of the first Latinas to serve in this role for any major law firm. Huerta also serves as co-chair of the firm’s Board of Directors.
Huerta has made a significant impact for clients amid the COVID-19 pandemic as a co-leader of Locke Lord’s COVID-19 Task Force, which provides a coordinated response to clients’ range of needs amid the pandemic and maintains the firm’s COVID-19 Resource Center. As a labor and employment partner, she focuses her practice on employment litigation, counseling and advice.
Roland M. Juarez
Partner
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Roland Juarez is known for handling high-stakes labor and employment cases for some of California’s largest and most high-profile employers in the service, manufacturing, retail and aerospace industries, successfully defending clients against the most challenging wage and hour, discrimination and non-compete claims facing employers in California and across the nation.
Juarez’s innovative courtroom strategies have secured impressive victories for his clients, ranging from using creative arguments concerning jurisdiction to substantially limit client exposure in a matter concerning a California military base; protecting a client’s competitive advantage by applying California’s “trade secret exception” for a manufacturer of well-known personal hygiene products; and obtaining trial wins for an advertising agency with major implications for the industry itself.
Dana Kravetz
Firm Managing Partner
Michelman & Robinson, LLP
As its firm managing partner, Dana Kravetz has positioned Michelman & Robinson, LLP, a national law firm headquartered in Los Angeles, as a go-to firm for clients in the hospitality, advertising and digital media, banking and financial services, cannabis, entertainment and music, and insurance spaces, among others. Now in its 21st year in business, the firm – under Kravets’ decade-plus-long leadership – has repeatedly been recognized for excellence.
At his core, Kravetz is a sought after employment lawyer who represents some of the most admired companies in L.A.: Riot Games, AECOM, Fairmont Hotels & Resorts, and YMCA Metropolitan of Los Angeles, to name a few. As of late, these and many other clients have relied upon his advice and counsel in connection with employment-related fallout due to COVID-19.
