Margarita is a skilled labor and employment attorney with prior in-house legal experience at a Fortune 50 financial services company in Washington, D.C.
She counsels employers to comply with federal, state and local laws in taking workforce actions, such as hiring, progressive discipline, terminations, requests for religious or ADA accommodations, managing FMLA (including intermittent) leave, and mitigating co-employment issues. Margarita represents clients in workforce disputes at jury and bench trials, hearings, arbitrations, mediations, and administrative proceedings before federal, state and local agencies.
Margarita is a native Spanish speaker and also advises her clients on compliance with immigration issues, including H1-B and family-based visas, labor condition applications, and conducting I-9 audits.