Ginger L. Grimes joined Goldstein Borgen Dardarian & Ho as a Social Justice Fellow in 2016 and became a partner in 2024. Her practice focuses on class and collective wage and hour cases, consumer class actions, and voting rights. Ms. Grimes volunteers as a supervising attorney for Legal Aid at Work’s Workers’ Rights Clinic. Ms. Grimes was selected by SuperLawyers as a Rising Star in 2022 through 2024.
Education
- J.D., cum laude, University of California, Irvine School of Law, 2015
- B.A., cum laude, Critical Theory and Social Justice, Occidental College, 2011
Bar and Court Admissions
State of California, 2015
State of Hawaii, 2016
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Awards
Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition (National LGBT Bar Association), Second Place (2015)
UC Irvine School of Law Pro Bono High Honors (2015)
UC Irvine School of Law 3L Trail Blazer Award (2015)
Faculty Award (highest performance): Legal Profession; Advanced Torts; Immigrant Rights Clinic
Professional Associations and Memberships
- California Employment Lawyers Association
Prior Employment
- The Hon. Daniel R. Foley, Intermediate Court of Appeals for the State of Hawaiʻi, 2015 –2016.
Representative Cases
Spruill v. Vox Media, Inc. and Bradley v. Vox Media, Inc., Nos. 1:17-cv-01791-CRC and 1:19-cv-00160-CRC (D.D.C.): class and certified FLSA collective action settlement of $4 million for state and federal wage and hour claims of misclassified independent contractor sports journalists and editors.
Flowers v. Twilio Inc., No. RG16804363 (Alameda Cnty. Super. Ct.): certified class action on behalf of California consumers alleging violations of California’s Invasion of Privacy Act resulting in $10 million settlement.
Yumori-Kaku v. City of Santa Clara, 17CV319862 (Santa Clara Cnty. Super. Ct.): judgment following a bench trial concluding that the City of Santa Clara violated the California Voting Rights Act by maintaining an at-large election system that diluted the votes of Asian American voters and directing the City to transition to district-based elections; affirmed on appeal in 2020; see 59 Cal. App. 5th 385 (2020).
McBain v. Behr, No. RG 17855986 (Alameda Cnty. Super. Ct.): class and collective action settlement of $5 million for exemption misclassification of sales representatives.
Representative Publications
Voting Rights Litigation May Become A Contradiction in Terms, (with Anne P. Bellows) Daily Journal (Nov. 23, 2022).
Practicing Law Institute (PLI) Employment Law Yearbook, “EEO Class Actions” chapter editor (with Laura Ho and William Jhaveri-Weeks) (2017 & 2018) (with Laura Ho) (2019).
Wage and Hour Laws: A State-by-State Survey, BNA treatise, 2017 Supplement (California chapter) (with Laura Ho and Katharine Fisher).
Expert Analysis, Flawed Commentary Can’t Stop Trans Rights Momentum (with Raymond Wendell), Law360 (June 20, 2017).
Note, Masking the Reemergence of Immutability with “Outcomes for Children,” 5 UC Irvine L.Rev. 683 (2015).
Support Our Vets: Why the DOJ Should Adopt a Place of Celebration Rule, JURIST – Dateline (Sept. 28, 2013).
Representative Speaking Engagements
National Employment Lawyers Association Spring Seminar, “The Changing Face of Wage & Hour Litigation,” Co-panelist on “Proving Time Worked in the Information Age,” March 24, 2023.
Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, “A Workers’ Rights Evening,” Co-panelist, September 29, 2022.
UC Irvine School of Law, “Workers’ Rights Panel,” Co-Panelist, March 29, 2022.
County of San Diego Independent Redistricting Commission, “Best Practices for Outreach to Communities of Interest,” Co-presenter, February 25, 2021.
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government, “2021 Redistricting: New Rules for California Local Government,” Co-panelist on “Strategic Insights and Practical Lessons,” September 17, 2020.
Legal Aid at Work, “Litigation Training – State Court Trials,” Co-panelist, August 3, 2020.