Danielle Pener

Alta Employment Law was founded in 2015 by Danielle Pener, who was seeking to provide personalized employment law advice and workplace investigations to California companies. In 2022, the firm pivoted to focus solely on workplace investigations. We service clients throughout California. Though each client we take on is paired with one investigator, we work closely together as a team, ensuring that all of our clients get the benefit of our combined experience and expertise.Danielle has been practicing employment law for over two decades. In addition to working at both large and small law firms, she served as in-house employment law counsel at a Fortune 500 company and a Bay Area technology company. Danielle's passion lies in investigations. She is fortunate to be able to bring all of her experience, skills and talents to helping employees and employers navigate the complexities of the modern workplace.Exclusive focus on investigations has allowed the firm to refine our process such that we are able to efficiently and effectively gather relevant facts regardless of a client’s sector or size. Danielle has investigated complaints in settings ranging from professional services to manufacturing, high tech to hospitality, at Fortune 100 companies, large and small privately-held companies, and nonprofit organizations. She also has a well-developed toolkit for managing complexities such as complaints that involve executives, witnesses represented by counsel, reluctant witnesses and situations involving multiple complainants.Throughout her career, Danielle has been recognized for being thoughtful and meticulous. Clients appreciate her skillful management of the investigation process, and referring attorneys recommend her to their clients based on the excellent quality of her work.Danielle is a member of the State Bar of California and the Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI). She is an AWI Certificate holder, leads AWI’s Workplace Investigation Basics seminars for those learning investigations, and has spoken at the AWI Annual Conference. Danielle formerly co-led the AWI Local Circle in San Diego and served on the AWI Annual Conference Committee. Danielle also holds inactive bar licenses in Missouri and Kansas. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from WashU with a double major in Political Science and Women’s Studies, and was in the top 20% of her class at UC Davis School of Law. www.altaemploymentlaw.com