Mara Curtis is a partner in the Labor & Employ-ment Group of Reed Smith. Her practice focuses on counseling and litigating wage and hour matters. At only 39, 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. Curtis has played lead roles 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 and the first published decision by the California Court of Appeals upholding the dismissal of a claim brought under PAGA on the grounds that the PAGA letter failed to assert the fact and theories underlying the claim.
