Danielle Kaufman represents employers in employment litigation in California state and federal courts and in arbitration. Her practice includes single-plaintiff, class, and representative matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage-and-hour claims, restrictive covenants, trade secrets, and other workplace disputes. She has significant experience defending employers in sensitive and fact-intensive matters involving allegations of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and related claims.
Danielle serves as the primary day-to-day attorney on many of her matters and takes ownership of case strategy from pre-litigation assessment through resolution. She works directly with in-house counsel, human resources professionals, and executives to assess risk and develop litigation strategy. Her litigation experience includes taking and defending depositions, handling discovery disputes and court conferences, and briefing and arguing motions to compel arbitration, discovery motions, and dispositive motions. She has successfully obtained summary judgment in matters involving wage-and-hour, discrimination, and retaliation claims. She has also successfully defended employer cross-claims against an anti-SLAPP challenge, including through appeal, and negotiated favorable resolutions in matters involving multimillion-dollar demands.
Danielle also advises employers on terminations, employee discipline, leaves of absence, wage-and-hour issues, restrictive covenants, and other workplace matters. She represents employers before the California Civil Rights Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Her clients span a diverse range of industries, including transportation and last-mile logistics, technology and AI-enabled businesses, K-12 and higher education, private security, facilities services, hospitality, and restaurants.
In addition to traditional employment litigation, Danielle represents clients in trade secret and employee mobility disputes. She has litigated alleged trade secret misappropriation, post-sale non-compete obligations under California’s sale-of-business exception, and disputes involving non-compete and non-solicitation agreements in jurisdictions outside California. Her experience also includes affirmative claims arising from alleged misuse of an employer’s identity and trademarks.
Danielle earned her J.D. in 2018 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she completed a concentration in business and corporate law. During law school, she served as Managing Editor of the San Diego International Law Journal and competed as a member of the University of San Diego Appellate Moot Court team.
Outside the office, Danielle enjoys hiking, rooting for the Padres, and spending time with her family and Cavapoo.
