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Amy V. Bianchini is a shareholder in Ogletree Deakins’ San Diego office. She focuses on representing employers on a wide range of single plaintiff employment issues including discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, misclassification, workplace violence issues, and wage and hour violations. Amy partners with her clients to provide strategic advice on employee separations, severances agreements, personnel policies, and employee requests for accommodations. Amy also performs workplace investigations for her clients.
Amy represents clients at all stages of litigation from administrative complaints though trial and arbitration. Some of Amy’s recent successes include achieving dismissal of a case after a Motion for Summary Judgment on behalf of a Fortune 100 client, second chairing a jury trial resulting in a favorable verdict for her client, and achieving a favorable settlements with a dismissal of class and PAGA claims after motions to compel arbitration for several clients. Amy has also successfully obtained restraining orders for clients in counties throughout California.
Amy attended the University of California, San Diego, where she was squad captain of the women’s epee fencing team, Southern California Intercollegiate Fencing Conference champion for the 2010-2011 season, and earned a silver medal at the 2010 U.S. National Championships in Division II.
Amy earned her law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law in 2014. While in law school, she was a student attorney with W&L School of Law’s nationally-recognized Black Lung Legal Clinic, where she successfully represented a client before an Administrative Law Judge. Her work resulted in the client receiving federal black lung benefits.
Prior to joining Ogletree, Amy was an associate at a California based law firm. She served as a judicial extern to the Hon. John A. Houston of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. She also served as a law clerk to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of California.
