M. Nicole Beckley

Nicole works closely with clients to provide employment matter counseling, utilizing her broad background counseling on issues related to worker classification (including contractor and contingent workforce issues), employment policies, employee handbooks, employment agreements, required notices and postings, leaves of absence and disability accommodations, performance management, discrimination and harassment, and reductions in force. She defends employers in labor and employment matters, including individual plaintiff and representative action litigation, wage and hour litigation, and agency charges, audits, and investigations. Nicole also advises companies with respect to employment due diligence matters in the merger and acquisition context.

Nicole regularly represents clients in the entertainment, financial services, aerospace, legal, media, medical, retail, restaurant, technology, and transportation industries. She also closely follows developments in California and Washington employment law and works to ensure clients are aware of impactful changes.

Nicole maintains an active pro bono practice, through which she routinely provides counsel to community-based nonprofit organizations and educational institutions, regularly supporting these organizations in risk mitigation, handbook and policy updates, and providing general workforce counseling.

While in law school, Nicole served as the managing editor of Volume 51 of the University of San Francisco Law Review. She also was a legal intern for the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic where she advocated for human rights, participated in resolution drafting sessions, and presented before the 34th Human Rights Council in Geneva, Switzerland. Nicole continues to advocate for human rights through her pro bono work and civic engagement.