Jocelyn Burton (ACBA) - Chicago


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Jan 10 2024 31 mins  


http://www.burtonemploymentlaw.com/

Jocelyn Burton is a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney with over 30 years of legal practice who has served as counsel of record in cases resulting in over twenty published federal court decisions. From 2012-2023, she has been named a Superlawyer in Northern California in employment law.

From 1994 to 2005, Ms. Burton was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of California. There, Ms. Burton handled hundreds of civil affirmative and defensive cases for federal

departments and agencies. In addition to the hundreds of cases that she litigated in federal district court, Ms. Burton litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Burton has litigated over 100 cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age, race, religion, disability, sex and national origin as well as harassment and retaliation cases.

During her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Burton served as both deputy chief and chief of the civil division. As civil chief, she was the first or second line supervisor to 19 attorneys, 6 paralegals and 19 other support staff and she was responsible for managing the civil division and the approximately 1500 civil cases pending annually.

Before and after her tenure at the United States Attorney’s Office, Ms. Burton worked at large and medium sized law firms. Ms. Burton founded Burton Employment Law in 2011. Ms. Burton has successfully litigated over one hundred matters for her clients.

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