Top Rated Employment & Labor Attorney in Irvine, CA

Recognized as a knowledgeable and successful employment law attorney, Tina Locklear formed her law firm to protect the rights and interests of California employees.  She represents clients throughout Southern California in matters related to:

• Wrongful termination
• Age, race, religion, gender and disability discrimination
• Whistleblowing and retaliation
• Employee misclassification and failure to promote
• Wage and hour issues
• FMLA and COVID leaves
• Government workers

Tina also takes on cases for government employees -(referred to as Public Law), representing Federal, State, County and City employees, employees of JPAs, employees of school districts.  

An attorney exclusively devoted to employee rights, Ms. Locklear has procured millions of dollars in verdicts and settlements on behalf of her plaintiff clients. Some of her representative results include several Policy Limits settlements for discrimination and retaliation cases, a successful whistleblower retaliation case through a jury trial, and a 98% success rate in resolving client employment claims.   Her recent government law cases include a settlement that covered all wages and benefits through to retirement, and other cases for reinstatement and restitution for failure to promote and retaliation cases.   Her recent participation in the early administrative exhaustion process has helped avoid a wrongful termination.  She has represented low wage sweat shop workers in PAGA and multi plaintiff litigation, as well as executives in Fortune 100 cases. 

A valuable contributor to her legal community, Ms. Locklear is a longtime member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), and she volunteered to participate in CELA’s Legislative Committee, helping ensure California laws remain advantageous to employees. She is also a member of the Orange County Bar Association and the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association.

A motivational speaker, Ms. Locklear regularly addresses audiences and presents on topics pertaining to employment law. She also volunteers her time and is  President of Orange County People for Animals, a non-profit whose purpose is to raise awareness and stop institutionalized animal abuse.  She served in the past on the board of directors of LINC - a non-profit that developed low income and affordable housing for elders, transition aged youth, and the poor.

Law was her second career after spending 10 years in the real estate sector. She became an honors law graduate of Western State College of Law, Ms. Locklear obtained her Juris Doctor and was admitted to practice in California in 2000. During her time in law school, she served on the Student Bar Association, was editor of the Dictum Magazine, most importantly, served for 3 years on  and Western State's Law Review, all while working full time.