Katherine Forster and Margaret Maraschino Named to 2024 Leaders of Influence List by the Los Angeles Business Journal

The Los Angeles Business Journal has once again named Munger, Tolles & Olson partners Katherine Forster and Margaret Maraschino to its 2024 Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys list, which recognizes the very best employment and labor litigators and trial attorneys in the region.

The publication considers the leading employment attorneys in Los Angeles “to have their finger on the ever-changing pulse of labor legislation, what changes have come to the labor law landscape in recent times, the new rules of hiring and firing and the various trends that they have been tirelessly monitoring and managing for their clients.”

The Los Angeles Business Journal lauded Ms. Forster, a seasoned employment practitioner and litigator, for her decades of experience and recent representation of Activision Blizzard and two subsidiaries in a government action brought by the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) for systemic sexual harassment allegations. In that case, “aggressive litigation strategy secured a legal ruling limiting the time period for which CRD could pursue claims, persuaded CRD to drop its pattern-and-practice claims of sexual harassment and led to a settlement for half of what companies facing similar claims had paid.”

Ms. Maraschino remains a rising star in the California employment law world and was recognized by the publication for her range of experience leading the defense in cases against national and California companies against wage-and-hour class and collective actions, discrimination claims and termination challenges. She also provides strategic advice to major companies on a broad range of employment matters. “Among her recent matters has been prevailing in an appeal before the Ninth Circuit in late 2023 [and] protecting an arbitration victory for Morgan Stanley.”

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Read the Los Angeles Business Journal’s profiles on Ms. Forster and Ms. Maraschino.