Lawyers / Professionals

Ms. Horton partners with employers to meet their labor and employment law needs. She has experience litigating or advising employers on the following issues: discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract (commissions, equity incentive plan), non-compete agreements, trade secrets, reasonable accommodations, leaves of absence, labor unions, wage and hour, layoffs, affirmative action and employee benefits litigation, including litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). She represents and advises companies regarding labor union matters, including collective bargaining agreements, labor union arbitrations, unfair labor practice charges, union avoidance and organizing campaigns.

Ms. Horton conducts high-level investigations and occasionally interviews witnesses in Spanish. Recently, she traveled within the United States and to China, India and Sweden to train a client's managers on how to conduct effective ethics and compliance investigations. She has trained hundreds of managers on employment law issues.

She represents employers in state and federal court actions, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), state human rights commissions and the National Labor Relations Board. She handles individual and multiplaintiff litigation, as well as putative collective and class actions. She defends against lawsuits initiated by the EEOC. Outside of the employment arena, she has defended against a wrongful death claim and a Stored Communications Act claim.