Overview
Marjorie C. Soto Garcia provides strategic advice to clients in labor union and organizing matters, single plaintiff and class action employment litigation and workplace compliance. She also regularly defends employers in state and federal lawsuits alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, wage and hour violations, violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) actions and unfair labor practice charges under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).
Marjorie is bilingual, speaking fluent English and Spanish, as she frequently interfaces with witnesses and parties and drafts written communications in both languages.
Before practicing law, she was a multicultural recruiter for various Ivy League and other top-tier colleges and universities, where she helped make a college education accessible to students of diverse and underrepresented backgrounds by educating them on the aspects of the college application. She also led small/corporate and major gift fundraising and donor stewardship efforts for non-profit organizations, receiving a certification from The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.
Results
- Lead labor counsel for tech and media company in securing multiple collective bargaining agreements (2024)
- Lead labor counsel for tech and media company in securing a dismissal and withdrawals of multiple unfair labor practice charges including novel challenges to operational decisions (2024)
- Represented international client in complete dismissals of unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (2021)
- Represented media company in obtaining dismissal of NLRB unfair labor practice charges challenging return to office plans
- Represented national client in defeating class certification of Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) class action
- Represented international client in federal and state dismissals of multi-million dollar FCRA class actions
- Represented large American multi-brand restaurant operator in dismissal of national class action alleging bias claims in connection with wage and hour policies
Recognitions
- Top Lawyers Under 40 Award, Hispanic National Bar Association, 2022
Community
- Law360, Employment Authority Labor Editorial Advisory Board, 2024
- Stanford Professional Women of Los Angeles, board member
- Hispanic National Bar Association, member
- Mexican American Bar Foundation, board of trustees
- California Minority Counsel Program, ambassador
- National Employment Law Association, member
- Latina Lawyers Bar Association, member
Credentials
Education
University of California – Los Angeles School of Law, JD, 2016
Stanford University, BA, 2009
Admissions
California
Courts / Agencies
US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
US District Court for the Central District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the Southern District of California
US District Court for the Eastern District of California
California Supreme Court
Languages
Spanish
English
