Cameron W. Fox

Cameron W. Fox acknowledges her employment law practice is relatively heterogeneous. She defends employers in sexual discrimination cases, universities in student disciplinary matters, and corporations alleging trade secret violations.

The commonalities lie in what they require of her accumulated expertise.

"After two decades doing a lot of jury trial work, I have become very used to matters that are litigated in the public eye and how to handle communications and media," said Fox, a partner for Paul Hastings, LLP. "Employee activism and student activismt often center around similar protections. In my experience, employers and higher ed are working really, really hard to address issues that are important to those constituents, and get ahead on them. In this space, the needs of very different types of clients end up intersecting quite often as far as the skill sets needed."

Fox has been with Paul Hastings, LLP for almost 15 years, working out of Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Her roles within the firm include chair of its Los Angeles employment law department and national chair of its traditional labor practice group.

Fox recently represented Google in a complaint filed by the National Labor Relations Board about employee disciplinary decisions. Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. 20-CA-252957 (N.L.R.B., filed Dec. 5, 2019); 20-CA-253105 (N.L.R.B, filed Dec. 9, 2019); 20-CA-253464 (N.L.R.B., filed Dec. 16, 2019); 20-CA- 252802 (N.L.R.B, filed Dec. 3, 2019); 20-CA-252902 (N.L.R.B, filed Dec. 5, 2019); 20-CA-253105 (N.L.R.B., filed Dec. 9, 2019). Google fired four employees for allegedly accessing, then distributing details about sensitive government contracts. Other employees were later disciplined for sidestepping corporate security measures to distribute messages to staff worldwide. Google employees said the disciplinary actions were retaliation for labor organizing. The NLRB case before a San Francisco administrative law judge was resolved on undisclosed terms in March 2022.

Fox is also representing the University of Southern California in a pair of sexual harassment and misconduct cases. Kim v. Choong Park, University of Southern California, 21STCV14870 (L.A. Sup. Ct., filed April 20, 2021) and Whittier v. University of Southern California, 2:20-cv-09539 (C.D. Cal., filed Oct. 16, 2020). The former USC students assert the school should have done more to protect them from alleged misconduct. Both cases are ongoing.

- JenniferMcEntee