John Giovannone is a partner at CD Law and leads the firm’s Labor & Employment, Consumer Protection and Class Action Practice Groups.
Prior to joining the firm, John spent twenty years practicing at three large international and regional firms, including over five years as a partner at a Legal 500 Top 20 law firm and nearly seven additional years as a partner at large California-based firm.
John has spent his entire multi-decade career litigating Labor & Employment and Class Action disputes, while also providing experienced advice and counsel to his clients. He represents employers, employees, executives, and consumers. He has litigated and won multiple court trials and private arbitrations, has taken hundreds of depositions, has represented clients at innumerable mediations and settlement conferences, and regularly appears before the National Labor Relations Board on traditional labor matters.
John has successfully litigated statewide and nationwide class and collective actions (as well as individual lawsuits) pertaining to Unfair Competition Law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, Harassment/Discrimination/Retaliation laws, the California Labor Code including the California Private Attorneys’ General Act (PAGA), and many other laws.
John is a regular volunteer faculty member with the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, a published author and regular speaker on many issues pertaining to California law, a volunteer board member of the Southern California Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, a former volunteer board member of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, and a former college athlete. John is married to his wife, Lauren, and they have three teenage children, Emma, Izzie, and Jack. When John is not at work, he is attending one of his kids’ many sporting or theatre events, or at Dodger Stadium cheering on his LA Dodgers.
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John R. Giovannone is a partner in the Los Angeles office where he represents employers in the full range of employment law matters, from single plaintiff to classbased wage/hour, contract, discrimination, harassment, and licensing litigation, and including traditional labor proceedings as well
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