Jennifer Lipski
Top rated Employment Litigation attorney in Woodland Hills, California
Practice Areas:
Employment litigation,
Appellate,
Employment & labor,
Discrimination,
Wrongful termination
Education Qualification:
Pepperdine University School of Law
Practice Areas:
Employment litigation,
Appellate,
Employment & labor,
Discrimination,
Wrongful termination
5855 Topanga Canyon Blvd Suite 300Los Angeles, California, 91367
First Admitted: 2010, California
Professional Webpage: https://www.jmllaw.com/attorney/jennifer-a-lipski.shtml
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2019
- Member, Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA)
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2017
- Member, California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA)
- U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California, 2015
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California, 2011
- California state Bar, 2010
Pro bono/Community Service:
- Habitat for Humanity
Honors/Awards:
- Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations, 2018 - 2020, Up-and-Coming 50: 2020 Women Southern California Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- Super Lawyer, 2022
- Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations, 2019 - 2020, Up-and-Coming 100: 2020 Southern California Rising Stars, Super Lawyers
- Rising Star - 2016 to the present. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. This selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations, Southern California Rising Star, Super Lawyers
Educational Background:
- University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, Business Management and Pre-Law, Honors: Received the President’s Award for Excellence and the University’s Provost Scholarship; Graduated cum laude, with Honors, Class of 2007
Scholarly Lectures/Writings:
- How to navigate various complications presented by workers’ compensation claims, SSDI and EDD claims, labor board claims, and bankruptcy claims, when preparing for mediation of an employment law case, Co-author, Common pitfalls and landmines in mediating employment claims, The Advocate Magazine. (Advocate is the largest magazine in the United States for plaintiffs' trial attorneys. Advocate is owned by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and published for the benefit of plaintiffs' trial attorneys in, 2019
- Allocation of settlement proceeds and the tax consequences must be understood when negotiated with institutional defendant. In addition to all of the other factors one has to be prepared for in the mediation process, allocations of settlement proceeds and their tax consequences must be understood and often negotiated with institutional defendants. Many large defendants are aggressively attempting to reduce recoveries of plaintiffs and their counsel by insisting on draconian tax withholding and characterizations of settlements. This article will provide an overview of the different types of damages the settlement may allocate payments between, the tax consequences of those allocations, and the best ways to maximize the net settlement proceeds and minimize the negative tax consequences to your client. ***NOTE that tax laws changed not long after the article was published, and some of the information in the article may no longer be accurate. Clients should always consult a tax attorney or certified tax professional for professional tax advice pertaining to the taxation of any settlement or judgment they obtain, Co-author, Tax considerations in settling the case at mediation, The Advocate Magazine. (Advocate is the largest magazine in the United States for plaintiffs' trial attorneys. Advocate is owned by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and published for the benefit of plaintiffs' trial attorneys in, 2017
Other Outstanding Achievements:
- Unpublished appellate opinion (Opinion dated Nov. 29. 2022) in Russell v. Five Star Home Health, Inc., et al., Appeal No. B307230. Successfully briefed and argued on behalf of the plaintiff-employee, Evelin Russell, who was the Respondent in the appeal. The defendants, Appellants Five Star Home Health, Inc. and Anthony Nieves, had brought a motion to compel arbitration in the superior court, which I successfully opposed. Defendants appealed from that order denying their motion to compel arbitration. On behalf of Ms. Russell, I argued that the superior court had properly exercised its discretion in denying the motion to compel arbitration, given that the defendants' significant delay in bringing their motion to compel arbitration just weeks before the initial date scheduled for trial was effectively a waiver of their right to arbitrate. The Court of Appeal agreed with our arguments and upheld the trial court's denial of the defendant's motion to compel arbitration. The case was thus sent back to the superior court to proceed to trial. , 2022
- Published appellate opinion (Opinion dated Feb. 18, 2021) in Brown v. LAUSD, Appeal No. B294249. Successfully briefed and argued before the California Court of Appeal, Second District. The lower court had sustained the defendant-employer's demurrer to Mrs. Brown's complaint, thereby resulting in a dismissal of her entire action. Plaintiff appealed. The appeal resulted in a partial reversal of the judgment, with the appellate court agreeing with Plaintiff that the trial court had erroneously dismissed the plaintiff-employee's claim for failure to accommodate her physical disability, where Plaintiff had alleged that she suffered from symptoms and physical manifestations of electromagnetic hypersensitivity ("EHS") which caused her to have difficulty working as a teacher on campus after the District had installed and activated hundreds of access points all over campus as part of their new wi-fi coverage on campus. Plaintiff had further alleged that she requested various reasonable accommodations, that the District had granted some of them, but that the District then gave her the runaround and ultimately failed to follow through with implementing some of the promised accommodations. The Court of Appeal thus determined that LAUSD's actions "do not align with those of an employer taking positive steps to accommodate the employee's limitations", and returned the case to the superior court for litigation of Plaintiff's failure to accommodate cause of action against LAUSD. , 2021
- Unpublished appellate opinion (Opinion dated Dec. 27, 2017) in Merritt v. Equinox Fitness Woodland Hills Inc., et al., Appeal No. B266534. I briefed the appeal and argued it before the Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District, Division Three. Except for affirming the trial court's summary adjudication on Plaintiff's request for punitive damages, the appellate court reversed the trial court's judgment in all other respects, i.e., Plaintiff's causes of action for disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, failure to engage in the interactive process, wrongful termination in violation of public policy, and declaratory and injunctive relief. The reversal revived Plaintiff's case and the matter was remanded to the Los Angeles County Superior Court to be set for trial, 2017
- Unpublished appellate opinion (Opinion dated Sept. 28, 2017) in Estrella v. BT Catering, Appeal No. B280601 - Successfully briefed and argued before the Second District Court of Appeal. The appellate court affirmed the trial court's order denying Defendant relief from the default judgment. The appellate court also affirmed the trial court's finding that Plaintiff's statement of damages provided sufficient evidence to support the damage award, and that any "mistake or surprise" was the result of Defendant BT Catering's counsel's litigation strategy. Judgment was affirmed for our client, Plaintiff Hector Estrella, 2017
- Unpublished appellate opinion (Opinion dated Aug. 18, 2016) in Tran v. Integra LifeSciences, et al., Appeal No. G051620 - I successfully argued before the Fourth Appellate District Court of Appeal for the appellate court to affirm the trial court's denial of Defendants/Appellants' Motion to Compel Arbitration. The Court of Appeal affirmed the trial court's order and the case was remanded back to the superior court for litigation, 2016
- Unpublished appellate decision (May 26, 2015): Barry v. Kohl's Department Stores, Inc., Appeal No. B252275. I wrote the briefs for the appeal and then argued before the California Court of Appeal for the Second District, Division Two. The Court of Appeal reversed the trial court's judgment entered following the trial court's order granting the defendant's motion for summary judgment. The Court of Appeal found that Plaintiff had presented a triable issue of fact as to whether the defendant's stated reason for the termination of Plaintiff's employment was pretextual, therefore, the trial court's order granting summary adjudication of Plaintiff's causes of action for disability discrimination, failure to prevent discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination in violation of the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), and wrongful termination in violation of public policy, 2015
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