Angela J. Reddock-Wright

Reddock-Wright is the founder and managing partner of Reddock Law Group, a boutique employment and labor law firm focused on workplace issues. She opened the doors in 2011 following a phase of her career spent as an employment litigator.

“I’ve always been entrepreneurial,” she said. She transitioned her litigation practice toward workplace and Title IX investigations and to employment and labor law mediation, arbitration and expert witness services. She also developed a niche practice in the area of hazing and bullying matters in secondary and higher education institutions. “I was a fierce advocate, but I don’t represent clients any more in individual litigation,” she said. “I wanted to move to a role where I could service the lawyers I had worked for.”

Reddock-Wright said she uses her traditional litigation skill set to resolve disputes in the alternative dispute resolution process. She is a certified workplace and Title IX sexual investigator who has been selected by the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, as an expert in workplace investigations and sexual harassment prevention law to help the group overhaul and rethink how they do preventive training for members and employees.

“After Harvey Weinstein came along and the #MeToo movement arose, there developed quite a cottage industry in these matters,” she said. “California law requires that workplace claims of harassment and discrimination be evaluated by an independent investigator hired by the accused company. We don’t provide legal advice but rather present a report concerning violations of company policy. Business is good. I’m busy. Harvey Weinstein brought greater light to these issues, but unfortunately there have always been those who engage in discrimination or harassment in the workplace.”

More than half of her firm’s recent cases involve sexual harassment, racial discrimination or gender discrimination investigations, she said. Reddock-Wright co-manages the project labor agreement for the new football stadium under construction in Inglewood where the Los Angeles Rams and the Los Angeles Chargers will play. The project generates thousands of jobs, an economic boost to the region.

Because California has traditionally been a pro-labor state, the stadium project, like many other large construction jobs, has a big union workforce. As a private project, the developers weren’t required to hire union workers. “But they chose to as part of being good corporate citizens doing business in LA,” she said.

“As a woman of color I think I’m particularly sensitive to workplace issues,” Reddock-Wright said. “And as a former litigator, I understand how worst-case scenarios if employers don’t get things right. Changing workplace cultures is quite fulfilling. I love what I do.”

— John Roemer