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Top Women Lawyers

May 7, 2014

Elena R. Baca

Paul Hastings LLP Los Angeles Specialty: Employment


Baca has spent much of the last several years defending companies against plaintiffs claiming to be suing her clients on behalf of the government.


In one case, she and her team beat back a lawsuit by alleged whistleblowers who brought a "qui tam" action under the federal False Claims Act against a large medical technology company. Ruhe v. Masimo Corp., CV11-734 (C.D. Cal., filed May 13, 2011).


In another, she defeated a wage-and-hour su...

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