Cynthia M. Germano

Partner

Riverside
3750 University Avenue, Suite 400
P.O. Box 1028

TEL: (951) 826-8232
FAX: (951) 686-3083
Cynthia.Germano@bbklaw.com

Cynthia Germano is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group of Best Best & Krieger LLP.  Her practice focuses on litigation concerning employment and civil rights laws, including wrongful termination, harassment and discrimination claims based on sex/gender, race, age and disability.  She represents public clients, including cities and their police departments and fire departments, water districts, and other local agencies, as well as private clients, in both state and federal court. Her experience includes administrative proceedings, jury and non-jury trials, appeals, arbitrations and mediation.

Ms. Germano is currently the practice group leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group.  She regularly participates as a presenter in labor and employment law seminars.  These seminars have included a mock trial on sexual harassment, and presentations on discipline and termination of employees, liability for discrimination and harassment claims and other current labor issues.   Ms. Germano joined Best Best & Krieger LLP in 1990 as a first year associate.  She graduated from Whittier College, magna cum laude, with a double major in political science and religion. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in 1990 where she was the recipient of the three year Fritz Burns Scholarship and served on the Entertainment Law Journal.  While on the Journal she published “Do You Promise to Love, Honor and Equitably Divide Your Celebrity Status Upon Divorce,” Loyola Entertainment Law Journal (1985) 153.

Ms. Germano was active in the Riverside Youth Service Center, a non-profit organization which provides counseling and other services for young people and their families, from 1993 through 2005, when it merged with another local non-profit to better serve its constituents.  She served as the President of the Y.S.C. Board of Directors from 2000 through 2004.  She is also a member of the Leadership Riverside Class of 2001-2002.  Leadership Riverside is a program sponsored by the Greater Riverside Chambers of Commerce, which identifies individuals with proven leadership abilities and provides a forum for their further development.  She also has provided service to the community as a volunteer of the Inland Empire Latino Lawyer Legal Clinic and a volunteer in the Adopt-a-Student program at Central Middle School for more than 3 years.  In addition, she served on the Board of Directors of Riverside Hospice from 1995 to 1997 and was in charge of the Hospice program for the confined and elderly.  Ms. Germano also currently serves on the Governmental Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 1990

Education

• JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, CA
• BA, Whittier College

Professional Affiliations

• Governmental Affairs Committee of the Chamber of Commerce