Darci Burrell
Partner
Darci Burrell is a partner of Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP, a boutique employment law firm in Oakland, California. She represents individual and classes of plaintiffs in employment discrimination, wrongful termination, and wage & hour cases. Ms. Burrell has a particular interest in disability discrimination cases, women executives, and women in non-traditional employment. Ms. Burrell graduated from UCLA Law School in 1995. She began her legal career as the Ruth Chance Law Fellow with Equal Rights Advocates. Ms. Burrell has also worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as a staff attorney; a Civil Rights Attorney with the U.S. Department of Education; an Office for Civil Rights; an associate for Goldstein, Demchak, Baller, Borgen & Dardarian; and as a senior associate with the employment practice group of Boxer & Gerson LLP. Ms. Burrell is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association and a Super Lawyer. She speaks regularly on employment law issues. Ms. Burrell has both hosted webinars for CEB and contributed to CEB Practitioner. She is also a co-editor for the “Rutter Guide's Employment Litigation” treatise.
Jean K. Hyams
Trial Attorney and Mediator
Jean Hyams is a mediator affiliated with Sequitur Resolutions and a partner with Vinick Hyams LLP, where she focuses her practice on co-counseling cases that are headed into trial. A litigator for more than 30 years, Ms. Hyams is a founding partner of Vinick Hyams Trial Partners. Prior to VHTP, she spent fourteen years as a partner of a leading Bay Area employment law boutique, Levy Vinick Burrell Hyams LLP. Ms. Hyams holds a bachelor degree from Wellesley College in Political Science, and obtained her J.D. from University of California, Berkeley Law. Ms. Hyams served as President of the California Employment Lawyers Association, the largest organization of plaintiff-side employment lawyers in the country. CELA honored her in 2019 with the Joe Posner Award, the organization's highest accolade. Ms. Hyams has made the Super Lawyers "Top 100" list for Northern California ten times, including in 2023.
