About Jocelyn Burton

Jocelyn Burton is a Martindale-Hubbell AV rated attorney with over 21 years of experience. For over eleven years, Ms. Burton was an Assistant United States Attorney in the United States Attorney’s Office of the Northern District of the California. During her tenure there, she served as both deputy chief and chief of the civil division. As civil chief, she was the first or second line supervisor to 19 attorneys, 6 paralegals and 19 other support staff and she was responsible for managing the civil division and the approximately 1500 civil cases pending annually. Ms. Burton handled hundreds of civil affirmative and defensive cases for federal departments and agencies. She was counsel of record in cases resulting in over twenty published decisions in federal court. In addition, Ms. Burton litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In her practice at various size law firms and the federal government, Ms. Burton has litigated numerous cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age, race, religion, disability, sex, national origin, as well as harassment and retaliation claims.

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY’S OFFICE – NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
Civil Chief, 2001-2003, Deputy Civil Chief, 1998-2001, AUSA, 1994-1998, 2003-2005

Attorney of record in cases resulting in over twenty published decisions;Litigated hundreds of cases in federal district court;Litigated over 80 civil appeals before the United States Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals;Handled numerous cases involving claims of various types of discrimination, including age discrimination, race discrimination, religious discrimination, disability discrimination, sex discrimination and national origin discrimination;Handled numerous retaliation and harassment cases, including sexual harassment, racial harassment, national origin harassment and religious harassment; andReceived commendation from the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice for successfully litigating Fair Housing Act and disability rights actions on behalf of victims of discrimination, 2003.
KILPATRICK STOCKTON LLP
2005-2008 Of Counsel

Litigated class action wage and hour cases;Litigated a number of employment discrimination actions; andCounseled employers on a variety of employment issues.
SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA
2008-2009 Chief Attorney

Supervised a staff of approximately 33 attorneys and other professionals who were responsible for providing legal research to the court and assistance to self-represented litigants.
MARRON, REID & SHEEHY
1990-1994 Associate

THELEN, MARRIN, JOHNSON & BRIDGES
1988-1990 Associate