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Partner

Lawyer Overview

Mark Kemple has extensive experience in all aspects of employment litigation, including wage and hour class and individual claims, federal and state discrimination claims, wrongful termination, and misappropriation of trade secret claims. Mark also has wide and extensive experience in unfair competition and consumer protection actions — topics on which he has spoken in a variety of forums.

Mark has handled disputes for companies of all sizes and has tried numerous lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the United States as well as argued appeals in three federal circuits and several state courts of appeal. For instance, Mark has been counsel of record in recent years for General Electric, PepsiCo, TRW, Mentor Corp., Washington Group International, Wal-Mart, Verizon Wireless, Trammell Crow Company, Albertsons, and the Los Angeles Unified School District, among other entities.

As part of his ongoing commitment to public service, Mark has been lead counsel in a series of publicized lawsuits involving aliens held in U.S. administrative detention, resulting in three published decisions from the U.S. Courts of Appeal. Mark has written and spoken on these and related topics and has been published in the Southern California Law Review. Mark is a director of the Orange County Bar Foundation and chairs the Charitable Fund-Raising Committee for the Orange County Marathon.

Before entering law school, Mark worked as a producer/editor for Cable News Network in Washington, D.C. After his judicial clerkship, he joined the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced general business litigation until joining Jones Day.

Areas of Practice

• Labor & Employment
• Class Action Employment Litigation
• Federal and State Wage-Hour Counseling & Litigation
• Single & Multiple Plaintiff Employment Litigation
• Noncompetition, Confidentiality, Trade Secret & Employee Raiding

Representative Cases

• 32nd District Agricultural Association v. Nederlander Organization, Sup. Ct. Orange County
• Albertsons, Inc. v. United Food And Commercial Workers Locals 135, 324, 770, 1036, 1167, 1428 and 1442, Sup. Ct. Orange County
• Arthur Carrasco, M.D. v. MedPartners, Inc. and The Talbert Medical Group, (Cal. Sup. Ct., Orange Cty.)
• Barile v. Boston Market Restaurants, Case No. 05 CV 1360, U.S.D.C., S.D. Cal.
• Bauman v. Applied Medical Resource Corporation, Sup. Ct. Orange County
• Dibel, et al. v. Jenny Craig, et al.
• Fernandez v. West Hills Hospital, Sup. Ct., L.A. County
• Helms v. Consumerinfo.com, U.S. D.C., C.D. Cal.
• Kimoto v. McDonald's Corporation, No. CV-06-3032 (C.D. Cal. August 18, 2008)
• McGuirk v. Verizon Wireless, Orange County Superior Court
• Perkins v. Verizon Wireless, Sup. Ct. L.A. County
• Pitchford v. Los Angeles Unified School District, Sup. Ct. L.A. County, Cal. Ct. of Appeal
• Reiner v. Wal-Mart, Sup. Ct. Orange County, U.S.D.C., C.D. Cal.
• Rippee v. Boston Market Restaurants, Case No. 05 CV 1359, U.S.D.C., S.D. Cal.
• Salisbury v. Michaels Stores, Inc., Sup. Ct. San Diego County
• Southern California Medical Corporation, et al. v. Michael Maguire, M.D., et al. and Southern California Medical Corporation v. CareMore Medical Group, et al. [consolidated] (Cal. Sup. Ct., Orange Cty.)
• Suministros Medicos Sanitarios, S.A. v. Mentor Corporation, Sup. Ct. Santa Barbara Court, California Court of Appeal
• Tarkington et al., v. Albertsons Inc., Cal. Sup. Ct. L.A. County
• The Savant Group, Inc. et al. v. PepsiCo U.S.D.C. C.D. Cal.
• United States ex. rel. Bagley v. TRW, Inc., U.S.D.C., C.D. Cal.
• United States Surgical v. Applied Medical Resources Corporation, et al., U.S.D.C. C.D. Cal.
• Washington Group International, Inc. v. Raytheon Company

West Practice Categories

Collective Bargaining, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Labor Arbitration, Labor Disputes, Labor Law, Labor Legislation, Labor Relations Boards & Proceedings, Unfair Labor Practices, Unions, Wage & Hour Laws, Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

Bar Admissions

• California

Education

• U of Southern California

Published Works

• Brinker, Brinkley, and Beyond: Surveying California's Wage-Hour Field of Battle, 2009
• ALERT: California Supreme Court Rejects the Narrow-Restraint Exception and Invalidates Noncompete Agreement, 2008
• ALERT: California Appellate Court Holds that Meal Periods Must be Made Available to Employees; California Labor Commissioner Follows Suit, 2008
• 2006 California Employment Law Legislative Update, 2006
• 2005 California Employment Law Legislative Update, 2005
• 2004 California Employment Law Legislative Update, 2004

Address

555 South Flower Street
Fiftieth Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071-2300

Phones

1.213.243.2195 (Business Phone)

Faxes

1.213.243.2539 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com