The Huntington Beach and Westlake Village Lawyers at McMillion & Hirtensteiner, LLP are ready to help you with just about any type of legal issues you or your business may face in California. Our Huntington Beach and Westlake Village Attorneys represent a myriad of clients from all over the State. Our lawyers, with offices in Los Angeles County and Orange County, are equipped with the latest technology, making the geographic location of our clients in California almost irrelevant. With handhelds, laptops, and the latest in legal technology, we effectively represent clients, large and small, across Los Angeles County, Orange County, and the rest of California.

PARTNERS:

JANINE S. McMILLION, Esq.

Ms. McMillion has developed a substantial business clientele of both private and public clients. Ms. McMillion has an extensive practice in labor and employment cases in both State and Federal Courts. She has successfully defended both corporate and government clients in discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, and wage-and-hour class-actions. With the ever changing environment of employment cases, Ms. McMillion has been extremely successful in resolving complicated employment cases in early mediation and arbitration, and very often in summary judgment.

She also provides continuous sexual harassment training for clients as well as preparing employment manuals and advising clients with respect to employment related matters such as wage and hour law, prevention of sexual harassment and litigation, day to day issues, and policies and procedures.

Ms. McMillion, a former prosecutor for the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, also has extensive experience at trial in criminal and civil litigation, representing clients in front of state and federal agencies such as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Opportunity Commission, as well as administrative discipline hearings on behalf of government entities.

In 2005, Ms. McMillion was selected as a "Rising Star" by Southern California Super Lawyers, an honor bestowed upon only the top 2.5% of up and coming attorneys under 40 years of age. Ms. McMillion is also very active in her community and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation of Orange County.

Ms. McMillion holds a J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law, and a Bachelor of Science in International Business Finance from the University of Southern California.

SHANNON M. HIRTENSTEINER, Esq.

A graduate of Pepperdine University, Ms. Hirtensteiner received her Bachelor of Arts in 1996 with a Major in Political Science and a Minor in History and her Juris Doctor in 1999. During law school, Hirtensteiner was a recipient of the Howard A. White Scholarship and competed in the Fall Individual Advocacy Tournament and the Vincent S. Dalsimer Moot Court competition.

She served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Andrew J. Wistrich of the United States District Court in the Central Judicial District. During her undergraduate work, she ran cross country for Pepperdine and also studied in Heidelberg, Germany through the Year-in-Europe Program.

Ms. Hirtensteiner has experience in the following areas of litigation: employment, general liability defense, products liability, premises liability, construction defect, business and copyright; family law matters; and transactional work.

Hirtensteiner volunteers as a coach for the mock trial team at Trinity Pacific Christian School. An avid runner, she continues to volunteer as the Assistant Coach for the Pepperdine Women's Cross Country team. Ms. Hirtensteiner won the 2007 decision, Hansraj Parmar v. County of Los Angeles, et al., from the Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District. Ms. Hirtensteiner also authored “Proposition 187 and Equal Protection” as featured in the Los Angeles Daily News, the San Diego Union Tribune, and the Contra Costa Times.

ATTORNEYS:

ALEXANDRA J. GUGLIUZZA, Esq.

Ms. Gugliuzza is a graduate of the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Ms. Gugliuzza obtained her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles in 1999. Ms. Gugliuzza was a member of the 1999 Loyola Moot Court Team actively competing in national competitions on behalf of the Law School. Additionally, Ms. Gugliuzza interned at the California Department of Corporations Enforcement Division specializing in Securities Fraud.

Prior to joining McMillion & Hirtensteiner, LLP, Ms. Gugliuzza gained extensive legal experience working for a large employment and insurance defense firm. Ms. Gugliuzza was instrumental in providing seminars to clients on various issues including risk prevention and strategies for avoiding workplace harassment. Ms. Gugliuzza also has a well-established background in business and corporate law gained through her tenure as in-house counsel for a large U.S.-based electronics distributor. Ms. Gugliuzza’s collective work experience has provided her with knowledge in the following areas of practice: general liability defense; products liability; premises liability; labor and employment; real estate; business contract and licensing; corporate policy; corporations; copyright and trademark; and collections.

RUTH L. SEROUSSI, Esq.

Ruth Seroussi represents corporate clients and financial institutions in both state and federal courts. Specifically, she represents California and nationwide employers in the mortgage lending, retail, apparel, manufacturing, hospitality and entertainment industries in all aspects of employee relations, including: preparing employment policies and handbooks, negotiating and preparing employment and severance agreements, training managers and supervisors in discrimination and harassment issues, and defending employers in discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, unfair competition and misappropriation of trade secrets matters. She also provides advice and counsel on day-to-day personnel issues. Additionally, Ms. Seroussi has extensive experience representing mortgage lenders and restaurants in wage and hour class actions and unfair competition laws of California and other states. Ms. Seroussi received her B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations in 1992 from Cornell University and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 1995, where she was an editor of the Environmental Law Journal, among other things.

E. THOMAS DUNN, JR., Esq., Of Counsel

E. Thomas Dunn, Jr. received his J.D. degree in 1984 from Southwestern University in Los Angeles and a B.A. in the Honors History Program from Biola College in 1977. Recently, Mr. Dunn was the Senior Judicial Attorney at the California Court of Appeal, Fourth District, Division Three, where he served as Lead Appellate Counsel in the Chambers of Justice William W. Bedsworth for almost four years. Prior to joining Justice Bedsworth's staff, Mr. Dunn was a Senior Deputy District Attorney for the County of Orange and a Deputy Attorney General for the State of California.

Mr. Dunn is recognized for his special skills as an appellate lawyer, notably a victory in the United States Supreme Court with Hicks v. Feiock (1988) 485 U.S. 624. He also has numerous published opinions to his credit, including In re Feiock (1989) 214 Cal.App.3d 141 and Tobe v. City of Santa Ana (1995) 9 Cal.4th 1069.

Mr. Dunn has served as an Associate Professor at Orange County University School of Law and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Whittier Law School, Trinity Law School, and Western State University College of Law. He has also has served as a member of the House of Representatives Rules Committee staff in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Dunn has been named Attorney of the Year by the Constitutional Rights Foundation of Orange County, and his written works have been published on both the state and national level. He is the author of several chapters in California Criminal Law: Procedure and Practice, published annually by Continuing Education of the Bar and has been listed in Who's Who in American Law every year since 1998. Mr. Dunn holds certifications as a specialist in both Appellate Law and Criminal Law by the State Bar of California Board of Legal Specialization.