International law firm Dorsey & Whitney LLP announced today that Gabrielle Wirth and Jason Wisniewski in the Firm’s Costa Mesa, California office have been named to Super Lawyers™ by California Super Lawyers.
Ms. Wirth’s successful trial experience in a broad range of employment disputes including wage and hour, whistleblower, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, and trade secret/noncompetition cases and her work with the corporate team on acquisitions and startups equip her to nimbly assess and provide legally compliant options, whether in the counseling or litigation defense role. She also represents employers before a wide variety of state and federal agencies including the EEOC, OFCCP, state human rights agencies, the Labor Commission, the Employment Development Department and OSHA.
Ms. Wirth is often requested to speak on a broad range of employment issues for a wide variety of corporate counsel and human resource organizations. She is a longstanding member of the Orange County Women’s Philanthropy Fund and an avid supporter of a variety of philanthropic causes in California and Montana. She is currently the head of the Southern California and Montana Labor & Employment departments at Dorsey.
Mr. Wisniewski has been assisting start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as mature companies, both public and private, in all aspects of their business and life cycle for over 12 years. He assists his clients in all aspects of financings, both public and private, and serves as outside general counsel to many of his clients where he advises them on corporate governance, SEC compliance and disclosure and other legal matters. He also regularly assists his clients with mergers and acquisitions, where he helps his clients structure, finance and negotiate acquisitions and dispositions of both private and publically held companies.
Over the course of his career, he has acquired significant experience representing companies, as well as investors, in the health and life sciences, software and technology, internet retailing and consumer product industries.
Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process is multi-phased and includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations.