Alexa Graumlich
Associate
Alexa Graumlich is an experienced employment attorney who advises and defends employers on a wide range of workplace issues. She partners with clients to navigate complex employment laws, mitigate risk, and develop practical solutions to workforce challenges. Alexa represents employers in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and administrative matters.
Alexa's practice includes defending employers in single-plaintiff employment disputes involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disability accommodation, leave-related claims, and wrongful termination, as well as complex wage-and-hour class actions and California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) matters. She regularly counsels employers on compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws, helping them address workplace issues proactively and avoid litigation whenever possible. Her work in providing strategic litigation defense and employment counseling helps employers manage risk and focus on their business objectives.
Alexa represents employers across a broad range of industries, including technology, nonprofit organizations, healthcare, food and beverage, hospitality, retail, financial services, and manufacturing.
Practice Highlights
Wage-and-hour litigation
Representing employers in complex wage-and-hour class, collective, and representative actions involving meal and rest period compliance, off-the-clock work, overtime and regular-rate calculations, expense reimbursement, wage statement claims, employee classification, gratuities, and other alleged violations of federal and state wage-and-hour laws.
Single-plaintiff litigation
Defending employers in single-plaintiff actions alleging discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, and wrongful termination. Alexa has experience in all phases of litigation, including initial fact investigation, written discovery, depositions, motion practice, and trial.
Employment advice
Counseling employers through all stages of the employment relationship, from hire to termination. Partnering with employers to draft policies and navigate difficult personnel issues to prevent litigation.
Class Action
Single-Plaintiff
Pro Bono
Admitted to Practice
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California, 2017
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U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, 2019
Education
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J.D., Stanford Law School, 2017
- Senior Editor, Stanford Law and Policy Review
- Gerald Gunther Prize for Legal Research & Writing
- Judge Thelton E. Henderson Prize, Immigrants' Rights Clinic
- Pro Bono Distinction
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B.A., Political Science and History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2013, summa cum laude
- Phi Beta Kappa
- UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy, Washington, D.C.
Memberships & Affiliations
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- Bar Association of San Francisco
Professional Recognition
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- Named "One to Watch" by Best Lawyers in Litigation - Labor and Employment, 2026-2027
Background
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- Associate, 2017-2021; Summer Associate, 2016 – O'Melveny & Myers LLP, San Francisco
- Advanced Clinical Student Attorney, Stanford Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Stanford, Calif., 2016-2017
- Judicial Extern, Hon. Charles R. Breyer, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, San Francisco, 2015