Jocelyn Burton

Jocelyn Burton is a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney with over 21 years of experience. For over eleven years, Ms. Burton was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of the California. During her tenure there, she served as both deputy chief and chief of the civil division. As civil chief, she was the first or second line supervisor to 19 attorneys, 6 paralegals and 19 other support staff and she was responsible for managing the civil division and the approximately 1500 civil cases pending annually. Ms. Burton handled hundreds of civil affirmative and defensive cases for federal departments and agencies. She was counsel of record in cases resulting in over twenty published decisions in federal court. In addition, Ms. Burton litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In her practice at various size law firms and the federal government, Ms. Burton has litigated numerous cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age, race, religion, disability, sex, national origin, as well as harassment and retaliation claims. Specialties: employment discrimination, severance agreements, employee contracts, harassment claims, wrongful terminations, and wage and hour claims