Labor and Employment Practice Group Deputy Chair Marissa Alguire has been named among the 2025 Leaders of Influence: Thriving in Their 40s by the Los Angeles Business Journal. The publication selects honorees for this highly competitive recognition based on their professional achievements, community leadership, milestones, and recent notable accomplishments.
Marissa represents employers in all aspects of employment-related business matters and litigation in state and federal courts, and in arbitration. Her practice focuses on the defense of management in class action, multi-plaintiff, and single plaintiff lawsuits in claims of harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, wage and hour violations, and PAGA issues. She also defends clients in proceedings before the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor, and the Employment Development Department. Marissa works with employers in various sectors, including technology, entertainment, hospitality, manufacturing, retail, and healthcare.
She also advises clients on employment policies and procedures, internal investigations, accommodation requirements, leaves of absence, wage-and-hour compliance, employment-related agreements, terminations, discipline, reductions in force, disability access laws, and manager and employee training.
Marissa has earned numerous honors and distinctions for her work. She was recognized as 2025 Law Firm Visionaries by LA Times Studios, and The Legal 500 recommends her for Labor and Employment – Labor and Employment Disputes. Super Lawyers magazine named her a “Rising Star” for Employment & Labor in California, and she is a previous honoree of Los Angeles Business Journal's "Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys."