Barbara is a seasoned employment attorney with over two decades of experience providing strategic legal counsel and litigation defense to employers across a broad range of industries, including healthcare, agriculture, manufacturing, retail, education, service industries, government, and nonprofit sectors. She is experienced in representing clients in litigation, administrative hearings, and appeals, and serves as a trusted advisor delivering day-to-day guidance on employee relations, internal investigations, and human resources best practices.
Barbara brings a distinctive perspective to her practice, shaped by her prior experience in leadership roles in Human Resources and her tenure as General Counsel for a leading dairy manufacturer in California. This combination of extensive experience defending employers in litigation and serving as in-house counsel gives her a unique, dual-sided understanding of the legal and operational challenges employers face, allowing her to deliver practical, business-minded counsel.
Barbara holds a Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the University of Detroit School of Law. She is licensed to practice law in California and Michigan and holds the Workplace Investigator Certificate from the Association of Workplace Investigations (AWI) and the HRCI Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification.