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, retaliation and trade secret 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. Representative Matters Ms. Rutter has defended employers during jury and bench trials in the following business and employment matters: · Lofting v. Steinway Piano, et al.
· Shafiq v. Salvation Army
· Aguilar v. Avis Rent-A-Car
· Dotson v. Avis Rent-A-Car
· Weyerhauser Inc. v. Alonzo
· Cummings v. Kaiser Foundation Hospital
· Valpoon v. Kaiser Foundation Hospital
· Baker v. Ikon
· May v. CSU Monterey
· Ortiz v. Zomax
· Kailer v. ATP
· Vienna Hall v. Cinema 7, Inc. (wage and hour class action) Other Distinctions · Nominated by fellow members of the State Bar as a Super Lawyer in Northern California 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 · AV-Rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 2005 · Licensed to practice in California and Nevada Professional and Civic Involvement · American Bar Association, Equal Employment
- Opportunity Committee · Queen's Bench Bar Association · State Bar of California (Labor and Employment Law Section) · Nevada State Bar (Labor and Employment Law Section) · James J. McFetridge American Inn of the Court, Master of the Inn · Family Services Agency of San Francisco - Advisor to the Board of Directors · Ms. Rutter is the Northern California Chair of the Women Lawyers Alliance (WLA), which is a network of other prominent women lawyers in private practice throughout North America. |