MEMBERS OF FIRM
Barbara A. Lawless (Member) born Buffalo, New York, October 29, 1946; admitted to bar, 1972, California. Education: Marymount College (B.A., 1968); London School of Economics; Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California (J.D., 1972). Author: "Wrongful Termination From Employment," CTLA Forum, April, 1982; Wrongful Discharge, The Employee's Duty of Good Faith," TRIAL, December, 1982; Lecturer: Continuing Education of the Bar, 1982, 1988-1986, 1998; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association Wrongful Termination Seminar (Chair), 1982, 1991-1996. Moderator and Lecturer, CTLA Wrongful Termination Program, 1990-2000. Labor or Employment Law Section of State Bar "Effective Jury Trial Techniques for Wrongful Discharge and Discrimination Cases, 1985. Top Ten Finalist, 2002 California Consumer Attorney of The Year Award. Named As, One of the San Francisco Bay Area's Top Employment Lawyers By The San Francisco Recorder (2004); Northern California Super Lawyer, 2006. Member: Bar Association of San Francisco; State Bar of California; Consumer Attorneys of California (Board, 1992); California Employment Lawyers Association (Board, 1990-1998); National Employment Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1993). Practice Areas: Wrongful Termination Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Sexual Harassment.Email: Barbara A. Lawless
Therese M. Lawless (Member) born Buffalo, New York, June 1, 1961; admitted to bar, 1987, California and Massachusetts. Education: Cornell University (B.S., 1982); George Washington University (J.D., 1986). Order of the Coif. Notes Editor, George Washington Law Review, 1985-1986. Clerk to the Honorable Warren J. Ferguson, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1986-1987. Trial Lawyer of the Year, SFTLA, 2000. Top Ten Finalist, 2002 California Consumer Attorney of The Year Award. Named as: One of the San Francisco Bay Area's Top Employment Lawyers By The San Francisco Recorder (2004-2005); Northern California Super Lawyer, 2006. Member: Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations; State Bar of California; San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Board, 1993-2005; President, 2004; San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year, 2000); Consumer Attorneys of California (Board, 1997-2004); Trial Lawyers For Public Justice; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; California Employment Lawyer Association; National Employment Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Wrongful Termination Law; Employment Discrimination Law; Sexual Harassment.Email: Therese M. Lawless
ASSOCIATE
Sonya L. Smallets (Associate) born Norristown, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1974; admitted to bar, 2003, California. Education: Swarthmore College (B.A., 1996); University of California at Berkeley (J.D., 2001). Phi Beta Kappa; Order of the Coif. Editor in Chief, Berkeley Women's Law Journal, 2000-2001. Author: "Jo Anne Frankfurt and Sonya Smallets, Disability Discrimination Under the FEHA: The Impact of the Prudence Kay Poppink Act (Former A.B. 2222)," 2001 CAL. EMP. L REP 59; "Mark. S. Rudy and Sonya Smallets, The Current State of California Retaliation Law: A Plaintiff's Perspective," 2000 CAL. EMP. L. REP. 265; "Sonya Smallets, Recent Developments, Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: A Victory for Gay and Lesbian Rights?," 14 Berkeley Women's L.J. 136 (1999). Law Clerk: Honorable Claudia Wilken, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2002-2004; Honorable Sidney R. Thomas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, 2001-2002. Member: San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association; Consumer Attorneys of California. Practice Areas: Wrongful Termination; Employment Discrimination; Sexual Harassment.Email: Sonya L. Smallets