Attorney Danielle N. Riddles
Experience and Background
Attorney Danielle N. Riddles
Experience and Background
Danielle N. Riddles
Partner
Meet Danielle: Championing Justice in Employment Law
Danielle began working for civil litigation firms during law school.
After graduation and admission to the Bar, she worked as an attorney for a civil litigation firm and then as counsel representing public employees in investigations and adverse employment actions.
Knowing she wanted to practice employment litigation, Danielle joined Barritt Smith Miner LLP, where she worked for five years before partnering with founding partner Perry G. Smith to form sickandfired.com lawyers.
She continues to represent clients in discrimination, wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, and unpaid wage actions.
Danielle is dedicated to the relentless pursuit of justice for our clients.
Email: driddles@smithriddles.com
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Civil Litigation Experience
Danielle handles all aspects of civil litigation, including motion practice, drafting discovery responses and requests, interviewing and advising clients, taking depositions, and negotiating resolutions. She chaired a winning jury trial and various favorable arbitrations. With the same track record as the rest of the firm, Danielle has never lost a motion for summary judgment. She has also successfully defeated removal efforts and arbitration agreements to keep cases in, and also return cases to, California State Court, which we believe is more beneficial for our clients.
Creative Persuasion
In prior employment, Danielle persuaded representatives of State agencies to discard proposed policy changes that would have had adverse consequences on employees’ interests/rights.
While representing an elderly client in a dispute over Medicare, Danielle crafted novel arguments grounded in public policy and legislative intent that persuaded an appellate tribunal to reverse a lower tribunal. In doing so, she saved her client tens of thousands of dollars.
Academic Background
Danielle obtained her law degree with distinction from McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, where she was a Teacher’s Assistant, placed in the “Elite Eight” in an oral advocacy competition, was a finalist in a mock trial competition, and received multiple awards for course performance.
Danielle received her B.S. in Business Administration Management from California State University, Long Beach.
Experience Working in The Courts
During law school, Danielle worked as a Judicial Extern for Judge Kevin R. Culhane. Judge Culhane handled family law matters at the William R. Ridgeway Family Relations Courthouse and general civil litigation at the Sacramento County Superior Court. Danielle reviewed motions, researched legal issues, made recommendations, and drafted orders and rulings.
Community Legal Services
During law school, as part of McGeorge School of Law’s Elder Law Clinic, Danielle represented elderly members of the community. Danielle was given significant responsibility, even handling cases from start to finish under the supervision of an attorney admitted to the Bar.
Personal
If Danielle had her druthers, then you’d find her under the Christmas tree at Disneyland with her husband and boys.
Education
- McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific, J.D
- California State University, Long Beach, B.A.
Admissions
- State Bar of California
Testimonials
What Our Clients Say About Us
Danielle, Carie, and Perry are the best to work with! They showed so much compassion and care for my case. They kept me updated every step of the way and helped me understand the process of the case. I am very happy with my outcome of my case. Thank you again sickandfired.com lawyers
This was such a new experience for me and I'm glad I called on the right team to do what was needed. You guys made sure to calm my nerves and make this horrible process so easy. Thanks again for going above and beyond.
Danielle is the best of the best! So happy with the results from my case, highly recommended.
I wanted to say thank you all for what you’ve done and I really appreciate all the results of this. It will be very helpful for my life going forward. Please let all those that were involved I’m thankful to them for all the hard work they did for me.
I have a friend who needs an employment lawyer. Since you kicked my ass in an employment case, I thought of you.