Ms. Wilson has been with the firm since its opening in 1991, and heads the employment litigation practice group. She has been counseling employers and representing companies in employment litigation for more than 20 years. Her litigation practice includes wage and hour class actions, Business and Professions Code section 17200 claims, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, trade secret violations and other types of employment-related matters. She regularly counsels employers on employment-related issues, including avoiding employment claims, reductions in force, disciplinary actions and terminations. Ms. Wilson represents businesses of all sizes and in most industry sectors.
Ms. Wilson has significant trial experience in state and federal courts in a wide range of employment matters, including disability discrimination, wrongful termination, wrongful failure to hire, defamation, breach of contract, and trade secret theft. She has sought and defended against claims for injunctive relief involving trade secrets and non-compete agreements, has handled numerous government agency hearings and trials, and argued employment issues before the California Court of Appeal and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Ms. Wilson was honored to be designated as one of San Diego's Top Employment Lawyers by the San Diego Daily Transcript in 2005, 2006 and 2007, selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2007 edition), Labor and Employment Law specialties. Claudette was also designated as a Super Lawyer by Law and Politics magazine in 2007. Super Lawyers are elected by fellow attorneys who vote for the top peers in their practice area. Claudette was named as a top Employment Lawyer and was chosen as both one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in San Diego County, and as one of the Top 50 Lawyers overall. Ms. Wilson is a past President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers San Diego Chapter and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. She was previously a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference and sat on the San Diego County Bar Association's Judicial Nomination Evaluation Commission.
Prior to her affiliation with the firm, Ms. Wilson served as In-House Counsel to HomeFed Bank, which followed her association in the litigation and employment practice groups at Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps.
Having studied in France, Ms. Wilson is fluent in French.
- Named by Southern California - San Diego Super Lawyers® as one of the top Employment Litigation: Defense attorneys, and one of the top 25 women attorneys in San Diego (2007)
- Co-Author with Lois M.
Kosch, "Other
Tort Claims," Wrongful
Employment Termination Practice (2nd Ed.),
Chapter 7, Continuing Education
of the Bar-California, 1997
- Speaker, San Diego SHRM 2008 Law Day (January 2008)
“An A to Z Guide on Religious Accommodation In the Workplace”
- Speaker, San Diego SHRM 2007 Law Day (January 2007)
"Challenges in Compliance - - Disability and Accommodation"
- Speaker, MCCA 5th Annual CLE Expo (March 2006)
"Tips for Preventing and Defending Against FLSA Class Actions”
- Speaker, SDEA 25th Annual Employment Law Seminar – Managing A Workforce in 2006 (February 2006)
"Wage & Hour Mistakes – California Employers’ Greatest Liability Risk”
- Speaker, San Diego SHRM 2006 Law Day (January 2006)
"How Not to Get Sued: Top 10 Mistakes Employers Make and How to Avoid Them"
- Speaker, Joint Los Angeles and Orange County Bar Associations, Corporate Counsel Sections, Meeting (September 2005)
"Identifying and Addressing Bias"
- Speaker, The Bar Association of San Francisco (June 2005)
"The New Whistle Blowers and Sarbanes-Oxley"
- Speaker, Association of Business Trial Lawyers Annual Seminar (October 2004)
"Whistleblowers Retaliation Claims"
- Moderator, American Bar Association, Section of Labor and Employment Law, Technology Committee (April 2003)
“Regulatory Compliance in An Electronic World”
- Participant, University of San Diego Executive Round Table (March 2003)
"Women in Leadership"
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