Claudette Wilson
Director
Ms. Wilson is a Partner with the law firm Wilson, Turner & Kosmo LLP. Her business litigation practice focuses primarily on employment related litigation. Ms. Wilson previously served as in-house counsel for HomeFed Bank in San Diego and was also associated with San Diego’s Luce, Forward, Hamilton and Scripps LLP. Her litigation practice includes wage and hour class actions, Business and Professions Code section 17200 claims, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, trade secret violations and other types of employment-related matters. She regularly counsels employers on employment-related issues, including avoiding claims, reductions in force, disciplinary actions and terminations. Ms. Wilson represents businesses of all sizes and in a wide variety of industry sectors. Ms. Wilson has significant trial experience in state and federal courts in a wide range of employment matters, including disability and age discrimination, wrongful termination, failure to hire, defamation, breach of contract, and trade secret theft. She has sought and defended claims for injunctive relief involving trade secrets and non-compete agreements, has handled government agency hearings and trials, and argued employment issues before the California Court of Appeal and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Ms. Wilson was honored to be designated as one of San Diego's Top Employment Lawyers by the San Diego Daily Transcript in 2005 - 2009, and selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (2007 - 2009), Labor and Employment Law Specialties. Ms. Wilson was also designated as a Super Lawyer and chosen as one of the Top 10 Lawyers overall in San Diego County by Law and Politics magazine in 2008 and 2009. Ms. Wilson is a past President of the Association of Business Trial Lawyers San Diego Chapter and is a Master in the Louis M. Welsh American Inn of Court. Ms. Wilson received her B.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego (1978) and her J.D. degree from the University of California, Davis School of Law (1983).
Ms. Wilson was also designated as a Super Lawyer from 2008 through 2011 and chosen as one of the Top 10 Lawyers overall in San Diego County by Law and Politics magazine in 2008 and 2009.
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