California Employment Lawyers

Danica is a long-time workers' rights lawyer who has dedicated her career to representing unions and employees in discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing and wage theft cases. She has practiced in federal and state court, before federal and state labor boards, in arbitrations, and in negotiations and bargaining with employers, litigating both single plaintiff and class and mass actions. She has taken more than a dozen cases to trial as first-chair counsel and lead cases resulting in six, seven, and eight figure recoveries.

A few matters that she is particularly proud to have worked on include an eight figure settlement against a major California employer for withholding employee wages in retaliation for union organizing, the reinstatement of an African American employee persecuted on racial grounds during the COVID-19 pandemic by his public entity employer, the drafting of state legislation aimed at protecting employees’ wages and benefits during strike actions, and a lawsuit challenging Colorado's usage of incarcerated workers as slave labor in its private prison system.

Before joining Franklin Law, Danica worked at Leonard Carder, a union-side labor firm representing some of the most prominent and militant unions on the West Coast, and Outten & Golden, a nation-wide plaintiffs' side employment firm, where she litigated class and single plaintiff cases on behalf of workers.

In her free time, she enjoys reading and writing fiction, and organizing musical and literary events.