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Michele L. Maryott

Michele
Maryott

Partner

CONTACT INFO

mmaryott@gibsondunn.com

TEL:+1 949.451.3945

FAX:+1 949.475.4668

Orange County

3161 Michelson Drive, Irvine, CA 92612-4412 USA

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PRACTICE

Litigation Class Actions Global Trial Labor and Employment

BIOGRAPHY

​Michele L. Maryott is Partner in Charge of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Orange County office. She is a member of the firm’s Litigation Department and its Labor and Employment and Class Actions Practice Groups.

Ms. Maryott’s practice focuses on business litigation, with particular emphasis on employment litigation, class actions and complex commercial disputes. She has litigated a wide range of labor and employment matters, including defending employers against wage and hour and discrimination class actions, and retaliation, sexual harassment, wrongful termination and whistleblower claims in federal and state courts, as well as in administrative proceedings and arbitrations. Her recent successes include defeating certification of a putative class of more than 70,000 employees in a wage and hour class action brought against a major healthcare company, which was unanimously affirmed by the California Court of Appeal in a published opinion.

In addition to handling employment matters, Ms. Maryott also represents clients in a wide variety of commercial litigation, including consumer class actions and other disputes involving environmental and toxic torts, acquisition-related disputes, unfair business practices and business torts. As trial counsel, Ms. Maryott has obtained numerous defense verdicts as well as multi-million dollar awards on behalf of clients in a variety of industries.

Ms. Maryott joined the firm after earning her law degree summa cum laude from Pepperdine University School of Law, where she served as Editor in Chief of the Pepperdine Law Review. She graduated summa cum laude from Westfield State College in 1994, with a bachelor of science degree in business administration and mass communication. Ms. Maryott is currently a member of the Board of Advisors of Pepperdine University School of Law and also serves on the Board of Directors of the Orange County Chapter of the Association of Business Trial Attorneys. She has also served as a volunteer deputy district attorney for the County of Orange, representing the People in multiple trials and other criminal proceedings.

EDUCATION

Pepperdine University - 1997 Juris Doctor

Westfield State University - 1994 Bachelor of Science

ADMISSIONS

California Bar

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Firm News - August 15, 2022 | Lawdragon 500 2022 Names 20 Gibson Dunn Partners Top Employment Lawyers
Firm News - June 29, 2022 | Jesse Cripps, Michele Maryott and Katherine Smith Named Among California’s Top Employment Lawyers for 2022
Firm News - November 15, 2021 | Fourteen Gibson Dunn Partners Named Top Employment Lawyers
Client Alert - July 16, 2021 | California Supreme Court Announces New Formula for Calculating Premium Payments for Failures to Provide Meal Periods or Rest Breaks
Client Alert - January 12, 2021 | 2020 Year-End California Labor and Employment Update
Firm News - December 11, 2020 | Eleven Gibson Dunn Partners Named Top Employment Lawyers
Firm News - July 15, 2020 | Catherine Conway and Michele Maryott Named Among California’s Top Employment Lawyers for 2020
Client Alert - March 16, 2020 | U.S. Employment Law Considerations for Companies Responding to COVID-19
Firm News - November 26, 2019 | Michael Flynn and Michele Maryott Named Among Most Influential in Orange County
Firm News - August 26, 2019 | Scott Edelman and Michele Maryott Named Among National Law Journal’s 2019 Winning Litigators
Firm News - July 10, 2019 | Three Gibson Dunn Partners Named Among California’s Top Labor & Employment Lawyers for 2019
Firm News - April 2, 2019 | Six Gibson Dunn Partners Named Top Employment Lawyers
Firm News - July 18, 2018 | Jesse Cripps and Michele Maryott Named Among California’s Top Labor & Employment Lawyers
Client Alert - July 6, 2018 | Update on California Immigrant Worker Protection Act (AB 450)
Firm News - June 21, 2018 | Gibson Dunn Partners Named Top Employment Lawyers
Firm News - May 2, 2018 | Four Partners Named Among California’s 2018 Top Women Lawyers
Firm News - February 15, 2018 | Michele Maryott and Theane Evangelis Named Litigators of the Week
Webcasts - July 24, 2017 | Webcast: Navigating Employment Issues: Sexual Harassment, Sex Discrimination and Other Potential Pitfalls in The Workplace
Webcasts - May 10, 2017 | Webcast: Labor & Employment Developments in the Trump Administration
Webcasts - December 17, 2015 | Webcast – Recent Developments in Equal Pay Laws – What Employers Need to Know
Client Alert - June 21, 2011 | U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Ninth Circuit and Holds That Employment Class Action Against Wal-Mart Cannot Proceed
Client Alert - January 14, 2010 | Employer Perils in the Social Networking Age
Client Alert - July 13, 2009 | California Supreme Court Rules on Class Certification Issues Regarding Unfair Competition Law and Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act Claims
Client Alert - April 27, 2009 | The Trial on Paper: Key Considerations for Determining Whether to File a Summary Judgment Motion
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