About

Reina G. Minoya serves as Counsel in the Sacramento office of Klinedinst PC. She is Co-Chair of the firm’s Employment and Labor Practice Group, and is also Chair of the firm’s Writing Committee. In addition to employment law, Ms. Minoya's areas of practice focus on business litigation, general liability, and international business law. Ms. Minoya is licensed to practice law in the states of California and Hawaii. Ms. Minoya represents both domestic and international clients in various disputes, and also acts as outside general counsel to various corporate clients. Representative clients include national restaurant chains, retail outlets, entertainment companies, and movie theater chains, and various international manufacturing companies. Ms. Minoya also represents employers on a wide variety of state and federal employment topics and counseling issues. Her defense of employers has encompassed many different claims on issues such as harassment, discrimination, wage/hour violations and wrongful termination. She has also counseled employers on pre-litigation matters such as failure to accommodate, harassment/discrimination issues, misconduct investigations, employee handbooks, and workers' compensation issues. She is a frequent speaker on various employment and labor law issues. Ms. Minoya received her Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, graduating with a concentration in International Legal Studies. While in law school, she was a member of both the Mock Trial Competition Team and the William C. Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team, as well as an active board member of the Student Bar Association. Ms. Minoya is fluent in Japanese and French, and worked as a law clerk to a judge for the Circuit Court of Hawaii, First Circuit. Ms. Minoya is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the California State Bar, the Sacramento County Bar Association, the Society for Human Resource Management, and the Legal & Legislative Team of the Sacramento Area Human Resources Association.

Practices Areas

Litigation

Employment and labor

Language

English

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