Julie Holden is Special Counsel on the Class Action Counsel team and is based in Connecticut. She is responsible for partnering with trial teams to conduct the fact and legal investigation and exposure assessment for class, collective, and representative actions, including PAGA matters. Julie prepares a full evaluation of the case based on the needs of the client and trial team. The assessment includes an analysis of the client’s wage and hour and/or other employment policies and practices, fact witness interviews, and an evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses of the client’s case, including opportunities for remediation. She also partners with data analysts to conduct damages modeling and exposure assessments. Julie drafts answers and evaluates matters for potential removal to federal court, and because of her knowledge of the factual and legal issues of the matter, remains involved in the litigation through opposition to class certification and settlement.
Julie has worked as an attorney focusing on California employment and general business litigation for more than a decade. She started her career at a law firm in Los Angeles, where she represented businesses in a variety of high-stakes and complex litigation. Her practice included employment, securities, contracts, and investor disputes, handling all phases of litigation through, and including, trial. Julie later moved in-house and served as Assistant General Counsel for a Southern California-based group of companies, where her practice centered on managing the company’s litigation portfolio and partnering with human resources to handle employment-related matters. Julie served as a law clerk for the Connecticut Superior Court, and as an Assistant Director of Career Development at the University of Connecticut School of Law.
