Aimee Kircher

Aimee N. Kircher is a Partner in the Employment Law practice group of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani. She represents business entities and management throughout California on employment matters and serves as outside general counsel for property management organizations. Aimee’s employment counseling practice focuses on risk mitigation and litigation prevention, as well as strategic human resources solutions for employers throughout California on hiring practices; harassment, discrimination and retaliation prevention; performance management; proper classification of employees; wage and hour compliance; leaves of absence; interactive process requirements and reasonable accommodation analysis involving protected disabilities in the workplace; strategic planning and restructuring; employment-related due diligence in asset/stock sales; corrective action and terminations. She has extensive experience preparing employment agreements, settlement agreements and releases, employee handbooks and other employment-related policies. Aimee also performs, oversees and trains management on effective workplace investigations. She has specific experience auditing workplace practices and advising organizations with small, inexperienced or start-up human resources teams that have large human resources challenges or lack basic infrastructure. Aimee’s practice focuses on the investigation, negotiation and resolution of pre-litigation employment claims and administrative charges; and employment-related mediation/ dispute resolution. She also provides, on behalf of her clients, oversight of insurance defense counsel and/or outside litigation counsel assigned to single plaintiff litigation defense, PAGA actions, and class actions. Before venturing into the law, Aimee was the Head of Human Resources and a member of the executive leadership team of a multi-state, multi-location group of companies supplying the marketplace with environmentally responsible lumber and timbers. Prior to that, Aimee gained valuable business operations experience in store operations management for a national retailer. This unique combination of legal, human resources and business operations experience has enhanced Aimee’s ability to link business strategies to employment and people strategies. She has spent her career operationalizing compliance with employment laws and business goals and has a strong track record of identifying and resolving complex people, legal, and operational issues in collaboration with other stakeholders.