Mary Allain

Mary Allain is an experienced employment litigator who now focuses her practice exclusively on providing strategic advice and counsel to the firm’s clients. Mary advises employers on a wide range of workplace issues, including performance management, disability accommodations and leaves of absence, separations and reductions in force, and wage and hour compliance. Mary enjoys partnering with clients to identify and address emerging workplace issues and evolving regulatory trends. She is particularly adept at implementing arbitration programs, conducting comprehensive employment practice audits, developing pay plans, and navigating workforce reductions. Mary also conducts workplace investigations, develops written policies and standard operating procedures, and updates employee handbooks for employers across a wide range of industries.

Prior to focusing her practice on counseling work, Mary successfully defended employers in a wide range of single-plaintiff cases, representative matters, and class actions involving wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour disputes, and PAGA claims. Mary now leverages her significant PAGA expertise to conduct early evaluations of potential representative matters and develop strategies to successfully defend against these matters.

Mary also serves as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law, where she enjoys mentoring future attorneys. Outside of her legal practice, Mary serves as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer with Voices for Children, advocating on behalf of children in the foster care system and helping ensure their best interests are represented in court and beyond.

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