Janine M. Braxton

Janine Braxton is a senior of counsel in the Labor and Employment Practice Group at Meyers Nave. She advises and represents employers with a wide scope of claims before state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies. With a practice emphasis on class action wage and hour employment defense, including PAGA claims, Ms. Braxton regularly defends employers with complex employment matters. She also has extensive experience defending single plaintiff claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, and other labor code violations. Ms. Braxton routinely defends employers in actions filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC); the California Civil Rights Department (CRD) (formerly known as the Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH)); and the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE).

Prior to joining Meyers Nave, Ms. Braxton was a partner at a Labor and Employment defense firm in Northern California. Before transitioning to full-time employment defense, she spent several years as a workplace investigator at Van Dermyden Maddux Law Corporation, where she gained extensive experience navigating complex and often sensitive workplace complaints. Ms. Braxton earned her undergraduate degree from University of California, Davis with a major in English and minor in Philosophy. She subsequently attended Lincoln Law School of Sacramento.

Ms. Braxton currently serves on the California Lawyer's Association's Labor and Employment Executive Committee and previously served as the California Young Lawyers Association Liaison to the CLA Labor and Employment Executive Committee. She also served as a board secretary for the Northern California Chapter of the National Labor and Employment Relations Association (NorCal LERA) for several years in addition to sitting on her local county bar Labor and Employment Board for several years.