Attorney Profile
D. Gregory Valenza
Gregory Valenza
San Francisco
California (CA)
Practice Areas:
Employment & Labor (50%), Employment Litigation: Defense (50%)
Employment & Labor
Employment Litigation: Defense
Law School:
New York Law School
Profile
Greg represents employers in lawsuits based on discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, and wage-and-hour claims. Greg also advises the firm's clients regarding the gamut of employment law issues. From reasonable accommodation to layoffs, wage-and-hour compliance to employment agreements, Greg helps clients comply with ever-changing and expanding federal, state, and local employment laws and ordinances. Greg graduated from New York Law School first in his class and received his Juris Doctor summa cum laude. Greg was an articles editor of the Law Review and received several awards, including moot court honors. Greg serves as a mediator for the San Francisco Bar Association's Early Settlement Program.
Selected To
Northern California Super Lawyers 2011
About Gregory Valenza
Admitted: 1992, California
Professional Webpage: www.shawvalenza.com/attorneys_bio.php?id=2
Honors and Awards:
- Six awards for high grade, American Jurisprudence Awards, 1991
- 3.89 cumulative average, Summa cum laude, NY Law School, 1992
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Member and then co-chair of State Bar Committee of Legal Professionals with Disabilities, 1995
- Volunteer mediator - Bar Assn. of SF Early Settlement Program, 2002
Verdicts and Settlements:
- Jury verdict, defense, Alameda County Superior Court. Three-plaintiff case alleging wrongful temrination in violation of public policy. Three-week trial., 2008
- We were successful in obtaining an arbitration award for injunction and damages against former employee who violated former employer's copyrights and misappropriated trade secrets., 2009
- Jury verdict for the defendant in retaliation lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court, 8/6/10, 2010
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