Laura Zabele

Laura’s representative experience includes the following:

Litigation

• Achieving a full defense award in arbitration against a former executive’s gender discrimination, harassment, and breach of contract claims under New York law
• Successfully opposing an application for temporary restraining order seeking to void a company’s employee non-solicitation covenants under California law
• Defeating certification of a 5,000+ member putative class alleging pay equity and other gender discrimination claims under the Equal Pay Act, Title VII, and Oregon state law*
• Achieving summary judgment on religious and disability discrimination and wrongful termination claims stemming from an employee’s refusal of a COVID-19 vaccine mandate*
• Defeating class certification and achieving summary judgment of wage and hour claims under the California Labor Code and PAGA*
• Defeating motions for conditional certification of Fair Labor Standards Act collective actions based on off-the-clock work*
• Achieving early dismissal with prejudice of a Fair Credit Reporting Act class action

Transactions

• Seven Point Equity Partners on its strategic partnership with Frazier Aviation
• Carlyle on its strategic investment in Entertainment 360
• Vacatia on acquiring The Berkley Group and Daily Management
• Apollo on acquiring a majority stake in The State Group
• Virgin Orbit on its chapter 11 plan

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham