Karen Gabler

Innovative Thinking | Practical Solutions For almost 30 years, management employment attorney Karen Gabler has facilitated business growth as well as employment law protection for her clients. Karen develops innovative workplace strategies to provide practical, cost-effective and creative solutions to clients’ business and employment challenges and defends employers and management from employee claims. Karen serves as an employment law expert for hundreds of businesses of all sizes and industries, providing legal and human resources counsel on a myriad of workplace issues. She conducts management and staff trainings, audits clients’ employment practices to ensure legal compliance and investigates employee misconduct. Karen develops workplace policies, disciplinary and evaluation memoranda, employment agreements, leave of absence correspondence, wage and hour forms and other employment documentation for businesses. When litigation is unavoidable, Karen aggressively defends her management clients against employee claims in all administrative and civil forums. Karen is a frequent speaker, conducting monthly employment law seminars for business owners, managers and human resource professionals. Karen’s honors include being named a Southern California “Super Lawyer” every year since 2012. She also has been selected in multiple years as one of the “Top 50 Women in Business” and “Who’s Who in Professional Services” by the Pacific Coast Business Times, as well as a “Most Trusted Advisor”, "Top Attorney in Innovation Leadership" and a “Top Attorney in Client Service” by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. An active community leader, Karen has been an officer or director of numerous business and philanthropic organizations and has been recognized for her commitment to community service. Karen practiced law in Honolulu for the first five years of her legal career. She has taught employment law and employment litigation at the Pepperdine University School of Law.