Susan Chelsea

Ms. Chelsea has over 30 years of experience representing businesses and individuals in a wide variety of legal matters involving both employment law, litigation, counseling, transactions and strategic planning. Ms. Chelsea strives to provide a wide range of legal services for small to mid size companies. Ms. Chelsea has resolved matters via jury and bench trials. binding arbitration, mediation and settlement. Specialties: Employment law including counseling (hiring, firing, reasonable accommodations, harassment and discrimination claims), workplace investigations, drafting policies, procedures, and agreements (employee handbooks, pay plans, compensation agreements, independent contractor agreements, non-competes), and employment litigation (wage and hour, harassment and discrimination, misclassification claims). General business litigation with extensive experience in construction contract disputes, government contract claims (including bid, size and status protests and set-aside program consultation),employment law (including litigation and counseling), real estate (including negotiating and documenting purchases and leases, commercial unlawful detainer, and lender liability), commercial disputes including application of Uniform Commercial Code and Carmack Amendment, and Song-Beverly and Magnuson Moss claims.