Diana Friedland
Diana Friedland is a partner at Friedland Employment Law. Her practice focuses on employment litigation and counseling — advising California employers across the full employment relationship and advocating for them when disputes arise.
Diana has successfully resolved wrongful termination, harassment, and wage-and-hour matters in both federal and state court — including claims of discrimination on account of gender, sexual orientation and identity, race, age, religion, pregnancy, and disability, as well as claims for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, failure to properly pay overtime, minimum wage and commissions, background-check compliance, retaliation, and failure to provide statutorily mandated leaves of absence.
She has trial experience at both the federal and state levels, including in unpaid wage, unpaid overtime, missed meal-and-rest-break, trade-secret misappropriation, and breach-of-contract matters.
Diana regularly advises clients on employment-law compliance and drafts personnel policies, employee handbooks, and employment agreements — including severance agreements, confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, and independent-contractor agreements.
Prior to founding the firm, Diana practiced in the labor and employment group of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, regarded as one of the best global law firms.
Before beginning her legal career, she graduated at the top of her class from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and the University of Southern California. She served as a legal extern to the Honorable John T. Noonan in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and as an extern for the United States Attorneys' Office in Los Angeles.
During law school, Diana's academic achievements and writing earned her a position on the California Law Review's Board of Editors. She also served as Senior Articles Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law, which selected her senior thesis — "27 Years of 'Truth-In-Evidence': The Expectations and Consequences of Proposition 8's Most Controversial Provision" — for publication in its Spring 2009 edition.
In high school, Diana was a nationally ranked junior tennis player — ranked the 17th best player by the Southern California Tennis Association in the Girls' 16-and-under division, and that year represented Southern California as the top athlete competing in the USTA Zonals competition.
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