Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney in Sacramento, CA

Attorney Laura C. McHugh is a shareholder and partner with the Duggan McHugh Law Corporation in Sacramento, California. A highly rated attorney with 23 years of legal experience, Ms. McHugh focuses her practice primarily on labor and employment law and defending the rights of employers facing litigation for matters involving discrimination, harassment, overtime and wage disputes, class actions, and other serious work-related grievances.

Regarded as a leader in her field, Ms. McHugh also counsels business owners, corporate managers and other professionals in all areas of employment law to help them remain in compliance with all applicable statutes and regulations in an effort to reduce their risks and liability. Along with her notable success as a litigator, she has achieved equal success serving as mediator and arbitrator for hearing and administrative proceedings before California and federal employment boards.  She has argued before the California Supreme Court and Courts of Appeal in cases that have resulted in precedential, published decisions.

Ms. McHugh graduated magna cum laude in 1989 from University of California at Santa Barbara, and she earned recognition for her thesis work through the school's senior honors program. She then attended Santa Clara University School of Law, serving as editor for the Santa Clara Law Review before obtaining her Juris Doctor in 1995.

The State Bar of California admitted her to practice that same year, and she is also admitted to practice before all of California's U.S. District Courts, the Supreme Court of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court. She also serves pro hac vice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii and Arizona.

Highly active in her legal community, Ms. McHugh is a member of Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada, the Women Lawyers of Sacramento and the Sacramento County Bar Association Employment Law Section. She is also a founding member of WomenUp, an organization devoted to mentoring and inspiring professional women in the greater Sacramento area.