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Meghan Féronie Loisel is our latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Katie Freeman
12 Apr

Our latest featured speaker is Meghan Féronie Loisel from Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe LLP!

Meghan is speaking at our upcoming 20th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts (CA) program on April 30 and May 2, 2024. This boot camp will walk you through your case in Federal Court from start to finish. You’ll learn the rules and tasks, strategies and tactics, and the skills and techniques you must have to become a more effective and successful litigator in Federal Court and to be a more effective and successful litigator in general. Meghan was previously a speaker at our 19th Annual Federal Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts (in California), and our 18th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp.

Meghan Féronie Loisel joined Rudy Exelrod Zieff & Lowe LLP in 2016 because she wanted to represent employees who stand up for their rights. Meghan specializes in helping employees holds their employers accountable for workplace discrimination and retaliation. She also works to ensure employers honor their contractual commitments to pay employees the wages and benefits they are owed. Meghan’s litigation practice includes both individual cases and class actions in court and arbitration.

During law school, Meghan focused on employment law and worked as a law clerk representing low-income workers at Legal Aid at Work. After completing a litigation fellowship with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Reproductive Freedom Project in New York City, she returned to the Bay Area and worked for Santa Clara County as a Social Justice and Impact Litigation Fellow and then as a deputy county counsel. As public employee and union member herself, Meghan gained meaningful insight into public employee representation. She also gained defense experience by defending the County and its employees in employment, civil rights, and tort cases. Meghan relies on this balanced view of employment litigation to provide her clients with even handed assessments of their cases.

Meghan graduated from New York University School of Law and is a member of the California Bar and New York Bar.

We are excited to have her join us!

Courtney Abrams is our Latest Featured Speaker!

Posted on by Trong Mai
09 Oct

Our latest featured speaker is Courtney Abrams from Courtney Abrams, PC!

Courtney will be speaking at our upcoming 18th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp: The Nuts and Bolts (CA) program on October 13, 2023 . The program is also scheduled for October 27, 2023 with Northern CA judges and faculty. Courtney has spoken several times at ours seminars, most recently spoke at our 17th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp program, where she received compliments on her breakdown of good and bad motions, her beneficial advice throughout the presentation, as well as her terrific teaching style.

Thank you for joining the program, Courtney!

Courtney is the owner of Courtney Abrams, PC, where she specializes in employment representation. Courtney litigated for nearly ten years before starting her own practice offering representation to individuals who have experienced unlawful employment practices and estate planning clients.

Additionally, Courtney has been quoted in Forbes and Variety, and from 2014-2019, she was recognized as one of the top Women Attorneys by Los Angeles Magazine and named to the Southern California Rising Star list, an honor received by no more than 2.5 percent of lawyers in California. In 2020 and 2021, Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement selected Courtney as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in the category of Labor and Employment law. 

During law school, Courtney worked for the ACLU of Southern California on federal cases involving wrongful deportation, mental health and prison reform, and she clerked in the Office of the Los Angeles County Public Defender. Courtney also served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Terry Hatter, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, and clerked for civil rights firm Hadsell, Stormer, Keeny, Richardson and Renick (currently Hadsell, Stormer, Renick, and Dai).

We are looking forward to her promising presentation!