Before launching Medina M^cKelvey LLP, Brandon M^cKelvey was a partner in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP (a top-tier international employment law firm with over 700 attorneys) where he co-led the California Class Action Group, created a popular employment law blog, authored wage and hour and employment law treatises, and regularly spoke on California employment law topics.

Today, his practice is focused on offering clients business-centric solutions to high-stakes, complex employment lawsuits. He has represented hundreds of California businesses in employment lawsuits all over the state of California, with a focus on wage and hour class and PAGA actions. Brandon has counseled Fortune 500 companies, large privately held companies, public agencies, and medium and small businesses on California employment law compliance, with a focus on California’s wage and hour laws.

A strong advocate for client service and effective communication, Brandon has developed multiple tools to help clients quickly evaluate their cases, improve their legal compliance, and protect themselves from future lawsuits.

Until starting a successful solo practice in January 2013 that grew into Medina M^cKelvey, Alex Medina spent nearly his entire career with large, international firms in Los Angeles and Sacramento — most recently DLA Piper.

He’s skilled at quickly immersing himself in the applicable law of a given case as well as at learning his clients’ particular business and industry. With nearly 20 years of litigation experience, he’s successfully represented some of the largest companies in California and the United States in multi-million dollar lawsuits. A skilled oral advocate, he’s quick on his feet, knows his way around a courtroom, and doesn’t lose his temper.

Alex has been happily married to his wife of more than 17 years. He’s also the proud dad of four ball-throwing, Lego-building, vegetable-avoiding boys.

One of the first cases that Tim Nelson worked on was a nationwide antitrust class action. From that moment, Tim found his calling as a class action litigator.

Tim Nelson has been practicing law in California for over 15 years with an emphasis on employment law, class and representative actions, and complex litigation. Before joining Medina M^cKelvey, he worked at two prominent national law firms, Kaye Scholer LLP and Seyfarth Shaw LLP.

At Medina M^cKelvey he focuses on wage and hour class and collective actions, employment defense litigation, and representative actions brought under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). He can quickly evaluate PAGA claims and provide guidance to employers on ways to efficiently defend, resolve, and prevent these extortion-style lawsuits.

Tim prides himself on understanding each client’s business and offering solutions that are best suited for the particular needs of the client. He learns businesses quickly to understand how employment laws and lawsuits impact the bottom line. He then works efficiently to develop the most economical and common-sense solution.

Tim loves spending time with his wife of more than 10 years and his son and daughter. He helps coach his son’s Little League team and is involved in his children’s school.

Allison has been a litigator for more than 20 years representing clients throughout California in a wide range of employment and complex business disputes. Her practice focuses on defending employers, in addition to individual managers and executives, facing lawsuits involving claims of employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, defamation, breach of contract, wage and hour violations, and wrongful termination. As an experienced trial lawyer, Allison has a unique perspective at the outset of litigation, enabling her to help businesses minimize exposure and resolve employment disputes in a cost-effective manner. When needed, she is ready to aggressively defend her clients through trial or arbitration.

Allison also regularly counsels and advises her clients regarding their employment practices, including reasonable accommodations and the interactive process, discrimination and harassment prevention, privacy issues, disciplinary actions, protection of trade secrets, and other personnel matters.

Chantelle Egan offers a fresh approach to compliance and risk mitigation as the leader of Medina McKelvey’s advice and counsel practice group. Partnering with companies in all stages of their growth trajectory, Chantelle does not simply focus on the nuances of the law but rather integrates each company’s unique culture, values, and business needs into her practical assessments and advice. Her expertise extends throughout the entire employment life cycle from onboarding through termination, with expansive experience in performance management, harassment, discrimination, diversity and inclusion, workplace investigations, and pay equity. Chantelle is nimble, offering proactive guidance to help employers navigate often unexpected workplace employment issues and conflict.

Before joining Medina McKelvey, Chantelle worked at large international law firms and most recently was a partner at Seyfarth Shaw, co-chairing its workplace crisis response and investigations practice group. She continues her work at Medina McKelvey as a neutral third party investigator, in addition to providing internal workplace investigations and pre-litigation crisis management counseling. Chantelle has conducted countless investigations in a wide range of industries, ranging from tech start-ups to trucking, with many of the investigations involving senior executives and board members. Her expansive experience litigating the adequacy of investigations influences how she approaches investigations to ensure they are neutral, thorough, and defensible.

Chantelle started her professional life as an educator, who moonlighted as an off-off Broadway actor in New York. Even today, Chantelle brings those skills to her current practice, offering dynamic and interactive trainings and one-on-one coaching.

For the last 10 years, Rabi has honed his litigation and investigation skills in a variety of areas ranging from complex commercial disputes, products liability, and securities and compliance. Rabi also worked as a United States Air Force Judge Advocate General, prosecuting criminal cases. In both the military and California courts, Rabi has tried cases to verdict, counseled numerous clients in adverse actions and employment issues, deposed witnesses, and managed multi-layered investigations of fraud, harassment, and securities violations. Before practicing law, Rabi served for eight years in the Air Force as a Special Operations Navigator and an RC-135 maintenance officer.

He now joins Medina M^cKelvey from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, one of the top law firms in the world. At Orrick, Rabi counseled clients from Fortune 100 companies, tech startups, and small businesses, shielding them from liability and negotiating many of their complex cases against regulatory agencies to favorable settlements. He uses this skill set to advise California businesses in the multifaceted nuances of the California Labor Code.

Doug Leach joined as a trusted and experienced Wage Hour/Support Counsel. He will be working to bring peace to California businesses through his mindful and caring approach to issues, cases, and most importantly, people.

Before pursuing law, Doug worked for 25 years as a business operations executive at Hewlett-Packard. At HP, he was responsible for building new organizations, growing them from the ground up and directing the integration of operational teams across more than a half dozen mergers and acquisitions.

After leaving his leadership role at one of the largest high-tech divestitures in history, Doug decided to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming an attorney.

Doug loves spending time with his wife of 30 years and their ever-growing family of six children and three grandchildren. Doug enjoys training for half marathons, landscaping, learning architectural design, and reading comic books. He is also an unashamed Cleveland Browns fan.

Kyle’s journey to the practice of law began in the halls of justice. Before becoming an attorney, Kyle spent nearly 13 years in legal administration, 11 of those with the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California. At the District Court, Kyle held a variety of administrative positions, most notably as the Courtroom Deputy to Magistrate Judge Carolyn K. Delaney for nearly seven years.

During his time with the court, and while balancing his roles as husband and father of four, Kyle continued to pursue his educational goals, obtaining his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from William Jessup University and his law degree from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. While at McGeorge, Kyle was a member of the Traynor Honor Society, received a Witkin award for legal research and writing and served as a teaching assistant to Professor Edward Telfeyan in his legal research and writing course. He was a member of the Moot Court Honors Board, won top prize at the 2017 National Cultural Heritage Moot Court Competition in Chicago, served as a Primary Editor on the law review board, and received the 2018 Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award for the evening division. Kyle was also a student member of the Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court for the 2017-2018 academic year.

After law school, Kyle continued his stead with the District Court, where he spent the next two years as a judicial law clerk to Chief United States District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller. As a judicial law clerk, Kyle developed an expertise in federal procedure and engaged in a wide variety of complex legal matters related to substantive state and federal law.

Expertise

Lindley began her career as an associate in the Orange County office of Latham & Watkins where she focused on intellectual property matters, environmental law, and complex business litigation. Lindley was also employed as Associate Counsel for K. Hovnanian Homes in Irvine, California, and worked on various real estate and employment law matters.

Following her time at Latham & Watkins, Lindley was an associate with Payne & Fears in Irvine, California, where she focused on employment and business litigation matters. At Payne & Fears, Lindley prepared multiple cases for trial, took and defended multiple depositions, prepared dispositive motions on a regular basis, mediated cases, and successfully took cases to trial where defense verdicts were awarded.

Lindley has extensive knowledge of state and federal employment laws, and provides employment and HR counseling, as well as employment litigation services. Lindley regularly prepares DFEH and EEOC response letters, employee handbooks, and personnel policies. She also has ample experience in sexual harassment training, harassment and other types of workplace investigations, and human resources training.

Education

Lindley graduated summa cum laude from the University of Southern California in 1998, where she was the valedictorian for the School of Public Policy and Management. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002, where she graduated in the top 1/3 of her class.