Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney in Sacramento, CA

Attorney Laura C. McHugh is a shareholder of Duggan McHugh Law Corporation in Sacramento, California. A highly rated attorney with over 25 years of legal experience, Ms. McHugh provides her clients with effective solutions to their workplace needs, whether it is an aggressive litigation defense to a hotly-contested employment dispute, or practical day-to-day guidance on workplace issues including discipline and discharge, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, leaves of absence, disability accommodation, wage and hour, prevailing wage, the Private Attorney General Act (PAGA), meal period and rest break compliance, or trade secrets and unfair competition issues.

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 has appeared pro hac vice with the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii and Arizona.

Highly active in her legal community, Ms. McHugh serves in a number of professional associations, including: board member and chairperson of the Employment Law Committee of the Association of Defense Counsel of Northern California and Nevada; member of Defense Research Institute; member of Women Lawyers of Sacramento; and member of the Sacramento County Bar Association Labor and 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.