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Over twenty-seven years of legal experience
Jocelyn Burton
Education:-
University of Chicago, J.D.
University of Texas at Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, MPA
Wake Forest University, B.A.
- Attorney of record in cases resulting in over twenty published decisions;
- Litigated hundreds of cases in federal district court;
- Litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals;
- Handled numerous cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age discrimination, race
- discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, sex discrimination and national origin discrimination;
Jocelyn Burton is the principal of Burton Employment Law. She has litigated over 100 employment matters for individuals, corporations, the federal government and local governments.
Scott Nakama
Education:-
Case Western Reserve School of Law, J.D.
- CALI Award for highest grade in torts Brief Writer and Oralist, Robert F. Wagner National Labor
- And Employment Law Moot Court Team
- Brief Writer, Willem C. Vis International Commercial
- Arbitration Moot Team Co-founder and Managing Editor, Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet
University of California at Berkeley, B.A.
Prior to joining Burton Employment Law in 2015, Scott Nakama was the founder of a start-up social media polling company.
Joel Moon
Education:-
Pepperdine University School of Law, J.D.
Certificate in Dispute Resolution
California State University, Fullerton, B.A.
- Class action wage and hour cases;
- Various types of employment discrimination cases, including race discrimination, disability discrimination, sex discrimination, and national origin discrimination; and
- Civil Rights cases.
Burton Employment Law, 2014
Associate
Joel Moon has been with Burton Employment Law since 2014. A psychology major, his particular interests include jury selection and alternative dispute resolution. He second chaired his first jury trial in 2015.








