Justin Johnson is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office. His practice includes all areas of general business and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on labor and employment law and class action defense in state and federal courts and before state administrative agencies. He has quickly acquired substantial experience in these practice areas and realized a great deal of success.
Mr. Johnson's experience encompasses work on jury trials and arbitrations, taking and defending depositions, drafting and arguing case dispositive motions, drafting class certification oppositions and class settlement approval papers, and presiding over mediations in the successful defense of individual and class cases. In the employment arena, Mr. Johnson has employed these skills to successfully defend employers against claims for wage and hour violations, discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, trade secret misappropriation, and failure to accommodate. Mr. Johnson has also assisted in the successful defense of companies in the healthcare, insurance, direct marketing, financial service and manufacturing industries in class action, unfair competition, breach of contract and fraud cases in state and federal court.
Outside of work, Mr. Johnson has been a mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters of America since 2008, and has served on the Board of Directors of the National Teen Leadership Program since 2010.