Marjorie Soto Garcia is a partner in the firm’s Global Employment + Labor Group. She advises employers on a broad range of labor and employment matters, including wage and hour and employment litigation and compliance, traditional labor issues, complex transactions, and workforce-related issues involving artificial intelligence and emerging technologies.

Marjorie represents employers in employment-related disputes in state and federal courts, including defending actions involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, class and representative actions involving wage and hour claims, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims, and Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) allegations. She also represents employers in collective bargaining matters, union election proceedings, and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

A significant focus of Marjorie’s practice involves counseling employers on workplace issues relating to artificial intelligence, including the use of AI tools in hiring, payroll, timekeeping, monitoring, workforce and performance management, and reductions in force across all 50 states. She also regularly counsels employers on AI bias audits, workplace governance, and bespoke workplace policies and training.

Fluent in Spanish, Marjorie also advises clients on Spanish-language workplace policies and regularly works with Spanish-speaking witnesses and parties throughout litigation, investigations, and labor matters.

Marjorie frequently speaks on labor and employment law issues, with a focus on workplace technology and artificial intelligence.

Representative Experience

• Obtained dismissal of an FLSA nationwide class action alleging bias claims in connection with wage and hour policies on behalf of a large American multi-brand restaurant operator.
  
• Obtained dismissals of multiple statewide California wage and hour class actions and PAGA actions including at the pleadings stage.
  
• Defeated motion for class certification of an FCRA class action on behalf of a national client and plaintiff’s subsequent appeal of the class certification denial.
  
• Secured federal and state dismissals of multimillion-dollar FCRA class actions on behalf of an international client.
  
• Successfully appealed and reversed an order denying a motion to compel arbitration in the Second District Court of Appeal of the California Courts of Appeal on behalf of a food services client.
  
• Achieved dismissals and withdrawals of multiple unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB, including novel challenges to operational decisions, for a tech and media company.
  
• Succeeded in complete dismissals of unfair labor practice charges before the NLRB for an international retail client.
  
• Obtained the dismissal of NLRB unfair labor practice charges challenging return to office plans on behalf of a media company.