Lawyers

LISA E. AGUIAR

Partner — San Jose

EXPERIENCE

Lisa E. Aguiar focuses her practices on labor and employment law issues.  She advises and counsels businesses and governmental agencies on all aspects of their relationship with their employees from hiring, through compensation issues, management problems and termination of the relationship.  She has negotiated and drafted severance agreements, employment contracts, proprietary and confidentiality agreements, and technology policies.  She provides legally mandated and other employment training to her clients.  When necessary she represents her clients in litigation brought by employees or former employees.  She has wage and hour class action experience and has participated in all forms of alternative dispute including mediation, arbitration and early neutral evaluation.

Ms. Aguiar also represents her property management and real estate clients in all aspects of fair housing laws.  She provides advice and counsel and litigation services to her clients related to requests for accommodation made by tenants and has successfully litigated and settled cases involving allegations of failure to accommodate disabilities.

Ms. Aguiar has served as a panelist and lecturer for employment law training programs and seminars on a variety of topics including wage and hour issues, preventing harassment and discrimination, leave issues, and hiring, firing and managing the employment relationship. 

Recent Matters

• Successful defense of a City for a wrongful termination lawsuit brought by police officer;

• Settlement, to the clients' satisfaction, of multiple wage and hour class actions brought against construction contractors;

•  Defense of multi million dollar overtime and bonus claim brought by four former employees of a multi national manufacturing company;

• Successful settlement of a million dollar lawsuit brought by a former tenant against the owner of the property and the property management company alleging failure to accommodate mental disabilities.

• Represented a service and retail company against claims of defamation, wrongful termination and unfair business practices brought by former manager.