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| Practice Areas | Employment Law; Employment Litigation | | | Education | University of San Diego, J.D., 1989, University of Michigan; Michigan State University, B.A., Political Science, 1981 | | | Admitted | 1989, California, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit; U.S. District Court, Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California | |
| Memberships | Queen's Bench Bar Association; State Bar of California (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section); State Bar of Nevada (Member, Labor and Employment Law Section); American Bar Association (Member, Equal Employment Opportunity Committee); James J. McFetridge American Inn of the Court; Family Services Agency of San Francisco (Advisor, Board of Directors). | | | Born | Lincoln Park, Michigan, August 30, 1959 | | | Biography | Donna M. Rutter is a partner in the firm's San Francisco office. Ms. Rutter practices in the areas of wage and hour class actions, wrongful discharge, discrimination, harassment and retaliation litigation before federal and state courts and agencies, exclusively representing employers in all aspects of employment law matters. She has a special niche practice where she has been retained to conduct high-level and sensitive independent investigations. She has also served as an expert witness on the validity of an internal investigation. She has extensive jury and bench trial experience in State and Federal Court and has tried to verdict 12 cases. She is one of a handful of attorneys in California who has actually taken a wage and hour class action to trial. Order of Barristers. Member: Appellate Moot Court Board, 1988-1989; National Team, 1988-1989. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Award for Civil Procedure. Author: "Judicial Disqualification in California: Legal Ways of Benching the Bench," Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues, 1988. | | | ISLN | 901915724 | |
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