Brooke S Purcell

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Sheppard Mullin
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Deposed plaintiffs in various matters.
  Managed investigations by the United States Department of Labor Wage
  Hour Division
  municipal entities.
  Prevailed in a wage
  hour action brought to hearing at the California Division of Labor St
  ards Enforcement (DLSE) against an international technology company.
  Negotiated favorable settlement
  full release of numerous cases, including wage
  hour cases at the DLSE
  various discrimination, harassment, retaliation
  wrongful termination matters.
  Briefed successful Motion to Dismiss in a state-wide meal
  rest break case in the Eastern District of California against national food processing company, which postured the case for favorable settlement.
  Developed strategy for
  managed the collection of declarations of putative class members in state-wide meal
  rest break case venued in the Eastern District of California.
  Obtained multiple insufficient evidence findings from the California Department of Fair Employment
  Housing (DFEH).
  Successfully defeated motion to strike counterclaim in trade secret
  breach of contract matter.
  Prepared successful motion to transfer venue in discrimination
  harassment matter for national grocery store chain.
  Deposed numerous medical experts in various discrimination cases.
  Defended person most knowledgeable depositions for retail, technology
  manufacturing companies.