Experience 

Bronwyn Pollock is an experienced litigator who has appeared before numerous federal and state courts and arbitrators.  Her practice is focused on complex civil litigation, particularly class-action defense, employment counseling and litigation, and real estate and insurance matters.  She has represented clients in a wide array of industries, including financial services, real estate, retail, health care, media, advertising, insurance, telecommunications, and education.

Bronwyn advises and defends employers in many areas of employment law, including wage-and-hour compliance, privacy, wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual and other forms of unlawful harassment, retaliation, reductions in force and business closings, unfair business practices, and noncompete and nonsolicitation provisions.

Real estate is another significant focus of Bronwyn’s practice.  She advises and defends financial institutions, lenders, property owners, asset managers, developers, and school districts in real property matters, including partnership, leasing, foreclosure, construction, receivership, attachment, insurance, and ADA disputes.  Her clients have included ING Clarion, Prudential Real Estate Investors, TIAA-CREF, KBS, Westfield America, Inc., Aetna Life Insurance Company, UBS Realty Investors LLC, Wachovia Capital Finance, ORIX Real Estate Capital, and a number of California school districts.

Bronwyn joined Mayer Brown in 2000.

Notable Engagements 

• Currently represents a health care company in a putative statewide employment class action case alleging exempt-status claims and an individual action alleging wrongful termination and discrimination.
• Currently represents a multi-media marketing and advertising company in putative statewide employment class actions alleging employee expense reimbursement and misclassification claims and individual actions alleging wrongful termination and wage-and-hour claims.
• Represented Wal-Mart and Sam’s Club in wage-and-hour cases throughout California, including Savaglio v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (Alameda County Superior Court), a statewide meal-period class action tried before a jury in Alameda County, California.
• Represented a national mortgage bank and lender in putative statewide employment class actions alleging wage-and-hour claims and several individual actions alleging discrimination and wrongful termination.
• Represented a national electronics retailer in defense of putative consumer class actions related to rebate promotions.
• Represented Westfield America, Inc. and its affiliates, which leased the retail mall at the World Trade Center, in the $7 billion property and $1 billion liability insurance coverage litigation resulting from the tragic events of September 11, 2001, in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Represented insurers in a complex coverage dispute involving the insurability of alleged intentional wrongdoing by their insureds.
• Represented an engineering and construction contractor in a complex construction fraud action and in connection with obtaining insurance coverage under commercial crime policies for federal defense contracts.
• Represented property owners in a $100 million coverage dispute with Zurich American Insurance Company and affiliated entities in the matter of Steadfast Insurance Company v. Santa Clarita, L.L.C., et al.

Education 

Georgetown University Law Center, JD, 2000; Senior Editor, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy • University of Southern California, BA, cum laude, 1996; Dean’s List

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