Joseph T. Ortiz

Associate

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

TEL: (951) 826-8291
FAX: (951) 686-3083
Joseph.Ortiz@bbklaw.com

Mr. Ortiz is an associate attorney with the firm in the labor and employment practice in the firm's Riverside office.  An experienced trial lawyer, Mr. Ortiz has successfully tried cases before state and federal courts, administrative agencies, and arbitration tribunals on claims of all types of employment discrimination and harassment, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, and breach of contract.

Mr. Ortiz's experience includes representing management in business and employment matters of all kinds, such as representing management in state and federal courts in cases involving claims of wrongful termination, claims of discrimination and harassment on the basis of sex, sexual orientation, race, national origin and disability, and related claims of fraud, negligent misrepresentation, breach of implied employment contract, interference with prospective economic advantage, unfair competition, breach of contract, civil rights, and various forms of unfair business practices.  Mr. Ortiz has also represented management before federal and state administrative agencies including the NLRB, EEOC, U.S. Department of Labor, California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, State Labor Commissioner, and the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board (“WCAB”) (before the WCAB, California Labor Code Section 132a discrimination and “Serious & Willful” claims only).

Mr. Ortiz also advises employers on issues ranging from the drafting of employee handbooks, employment and severance agreements, consultant agreements, independent contractor agreements, and employment policies of all types; provides in-house training on sexual and other types of harassment; and provides consultation on all types of employment discrimination, wage and hour issues, affirmative action, and sensitivity and diversity concerns.

Mr. Ortiz was also a Judicial Law Clerk, for The Honorable Bruce Willis, of the Minnesota Court of Appeals. 

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 2002

Education

• JD, University of Minnesota
• BA, University of California, Los Angeles