Cindi L. Ritchey

Cindi Ritchey has more than 15 years of experience representing clients in employment litigation. She primarily focuses on complex wage and hour class actions and representative actions under state and federal laws, including actions under the California Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). She also has extensive experience defending employers in single and multiplaintiff employment lawsuits, including lawsuits involving Title VII, ADA, FMLA, and California antidiscrimination law, unfair competition claims, wrongful termination, and employment-related tort and contract claims, as well as administrative agency actions. Cindi offers clients in-depth experience advising employers on issues such as compliance with state and federal wage and hour laws, antidiscrimination laws, leave laws, noncompete agreements, and wage and hour matters and also has experience conducting training for employers on preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.

Cindi has been named 10 times as a Southern California "Rising Star" in the area of employment law, an honor reserved for the top 2.5 percent of up-and-coming lawyers under age 40 in Southern California.

Prior to law school, Cindi worked as a paralegal specialist in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she participated in investigations of potentially anticompetitive mergers in the area of telecommunications and assisted in investigations of telecommunications industry compliance with the Telecommunications Act of 1996.