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Wanda R. Dorgan 550 S. Hope Street, Suite 2350  Los Angeles, CA 90071 Telephone: (213) 996-4209 Fax: (213) 892-8322 Email:WDorgan@spcclaw.com

Attorney Biography

Wanda Dorgan leads the firm’s Labor and Employment Group and practices in Los Angeles. She has more than 20 years of experience as a management-side labor and employment lawyer, and has handled and counseled employers on a wide range of labor and employment issues. She has extensive experience in all phases of litigation before state and federal courts and administrative agencies such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and Department of Labor Standards Enforcement. She also advises individual clients on employment and severance agreements.

Ms. Dorgan’s numerous accomplishments are exemplified by a successful petition for certiorari to the United States Supreme Court on a case involving the Americans with Disabilities Act. In addition, her practice includes individual and complex class actions and mediation and arbitration of labor and employment disputes. She provides counseling to employers on prevention and defense of employment claims and litigation, discipline and discharge issues, and application of various employment laws including issues associated with the merger, sale, relocation, restructuring and downsizing of business enterprises.

Although most of her experience has been in private practice, Ms. Dorgan was also in-house at the Raytheon Company where she was responsible for labor and employment matters for the Western United States. In that capacity, she was counsel for four major defense divisions of the Company. She also assisted in a massive reorganization of the Company’s workforce (union and non-union) and plant closings following the merger of Raytheon Company with four major defense contractors.

Ms. Dorgan graduated in 1987 from Southwestern University Law School as one of the top 10 in her class. During law school, Ms. Dorgan worked in the chambers of the Honorable Arthur Alarcon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She began her career at Buchalter, Nemer where she was responsible for labor and employment matters and assisted in establishing the firm’s appellate department.

Ms. Dorgan is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United States District Courts for the Central and Northern Districts of California, and the California state courts.

Ms. Dorgan is a member of the Labor and Employment section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and is the past President of Dispute Resolution Services for the Association. She also served as a member of the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee and the Court’s Early Neutral Evaluation Committee. She has also served as Chairperson for the Professionals in Human Resources Association. She is a frequent lecturer on employment topics before the academic, business and legal communities.