Allison C. Eckstrom

Associate

Allison C. Eckstrom is an associate in Morgan Lewis's Labor and Employment Practice. Ms. Eckstrom advises clients on various wage and hour issues including exemption classification and meal/rest period law compliance. She has represented clients at both the trial and appellate levels, and has assisted clients in wage and hour matters in both state class action and federal collective action contexts.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Ms. Eckstrom was an associate at an international law firm, where she focused on complex commercial litigation. She also served as a judicial law clerk for Associate Justice Steven H. Levinson of the Hawaii Supreme Court for two years following law school.

Ms. Eckstrom earned her J.D. from Southwestern University School of Law in 2001. While in law school, Ms. Eckstrom served as a judicial extern for Judge Audrey B. Collins of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She also was a board member of the Southwestern University Law Review; a member of the Moot Court Honors Program; and a recipient of the Best Oralist Award at the 2000 National Rendigs Products Liability Moot Court Competition in Cincinnati, Ohio. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Eckstrom was a district sales manager for a national payroll and human resource management company. She earned her B.A., with honors, in both political science and law and society from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1996.

Ms. Eckstrom has pro bono experience as a volunteer with Public Counsel in Los Angeles, where she has assisted indigent immigrant children in obtaining safe guardians and legal residency in the United States.

Ms. Eckstrom is admitted to practice in California and before all California state courts; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit; and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Northern, and Central Districts of California.