About Los Angeles Employment Lawyer Sana Swe

Before starting my own law practice, I spent more than ten years representing the interests of management in employment issues, ultimately becoming an equity partner in the Employment Law Department of Paul Hastings LLP. During my tenure at Paul Hastings, I achieved a successful jury trial, arbitration, and summary judgment record, as well as broad experience with mediation. I placed and continue to place great emphasis on counseling clients and in the early negotiation and resolution of disputes. I recognize the difficulty employers have in keeping abreast of changes in California law, as well as the challenges employees have in understanding their rights and remedies.

I resigned as a Partner with Paul Hastings in 2008, and opened my own law practice to include representation of both employers and employees. My firm's practice includes the representation of senior executives and highly-compensated professionals, as well as employees subject to unlawful employment practices. I provide a unique and valuable perspective to my clients, having analyzed and litigated employment disputes as a management-side lawyer for many years.

My practice areas include: wrongful termination; sexual harassment, racial harassment and other forms of harassment; whistleblower claims; retaliation; racial discrimination, gender discrimination, disability discrimination, national origin discrimination, pregnancy discrimination and age discrimination; disability accommodation; unpaid wages and wage and hour disputes; employment contracts; personnel training; personnel policies; noncompetition and non-solicitation agreements and litigation; negligent hiring; employment defamation; misrepresentation in hiring; fair employment practices; executive severance contracts; employment arbitration; employee discipline and investigations, and cases involving the Family Medical Leave Act, California Family Rights Act; California Fair Employment and Housing Act; Americans with Disabilities Act; Fair Labor Standards Act; Age Discrimination Act; Title VII Discrimination; Equal Employment Opportunity Law; and Reductions in Force.

Areas of Practice

• Civil Rights
• Age Discrimination
• Disability & Illness Discrimination
• Gay & Lesbian Rights
• National Origin Discrimination
• Race Discrimination
• Religious Discrimination
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Employment Law -- Employee
• Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employee
• Employee Rights -- Employee
• Employment Contracts -- Employee
• Employment Discrimination -- Employee
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employee
• Municipal Employment -- Employee
• Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employee
• Sexual Harassment -- Employee
• Wage & Hour Laws -- Employee
• Whistleblower -- Employee
• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employee
• Wrongful Termination -- Employee
• Employment Law -- Employer
• Americans with Disabilities Act -- Employer
• Employee Rights -- Employer
• Employment Contracts -- Employer
• Employment Discrimination -- Employer
• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- Employer
• Municipal Employment -- Employer
• Pensions, Benefits & Compensations -- Employer
• Sexual Harassment -- Employer
• Wage & Hour Laws -- Employer
• Whistleblower -- Employer
• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act -- Employer
• Wrongful Termination -- Employer
• Labor Law
• Wage & Hour Laws
• Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act
• Litigation & Appeals
• Class Actions
• Federal Appellate Practice
• Federal Trial Practice
• State Appellate Practice
• State Trial Practice
• US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• US Supreme Court

Litigation Percentage

• 50% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions

• California, 1994
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of California, 1994
• U.S. District Court Central District of California, 1994
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1994
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1994
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1994

Education

• Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California
  J.D.
  Honors: Magna Cum Laude
  Honors: Order of the Coif
  Law Review: Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, Member, 1992 - 1993
  
  
• Occidental College, Los Angeles, California, 1990
  B.A.
  Honors: With Honors
  Major: Political Science
  
  

Published Works

• California Equal Employment Opportunity Law, California Business Law Deskbook 2007 Edition, Thomson West
• The California Supreme Court Shields Employers from Liability for Adverse Actions Against Medical Marijuana Users, Bender's California Labor & Employment Bulletin, Vol. 2008, No. 3, Sana Swe and Rishi N. Sharma, 2008
• The California Supreme Court's Employment Law Docket Demonstrates, Yet Again, Just How Different California Employment Law Is From the Law in the Rest of the Country, Bender's California Labor and Employment Bulletin, Vol. 2008, No. 2, Sana Swe and Rishi N. Sharma, 2008

Representative Clients

• Investment Management
• Banking
• Biotechnology
• Manufacturing
• Aerospace
• Technology
• Retail
• Transportation
• Hospitals
• Restaurants

Honors and Awards

• Sayre MacNeil Scholar, Loyola of Los Angeles Law School (for Ranking within Top Five Percent of First-year Class), 1992 - 1994

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Children Affected by AIDS Foundation, 2004 - 2007
  Board Member
  
  
• National Kidney Foundation, 2002 - 2003
  Board Member
  
  

Past Employment Positions

• Paul Hastings LLP, Partner, Employment Law Department
• Paul Hastings LLP, Associate, Employment Law Department
• Irell & Manella, Associate, 1994 - 1997

Birth Information

• 1964, Rangoon, Burma