Mariyetta Meyers-Lopez focuses her practice on business litigation including bad faith insurance claims, real estate, errors and omissions claims, partnership disputes, and employment law.

Business Defense Know-How

Mariyetta has experience with all aspects of business and general civil litigation, including issues of contract, fraud, business torts, breach of fiduciary duty disputes between and within corporate entities, and securities litigation. She has significant experience in moving for and defending summary judgment motions. She has also successfully handled appeals in the California Court of Appeals.

Skill in Handling Employment and Human Resource Issues

Through her work on employment issues, Mariyetta has represented plaintiffs and defendants in state and federal employment discrimination/retaliations suits and wage and hour disputes, before state, federal, and appellate courts and before administrative agencies such as the EEOC and the MSPB. She has also drafted opinion letters on employee discipline, demotion, and termination and has presented a California bar approved CLE on the significance of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act to all employers.

Committed to Legal Education

A firm believer in providing legal education to others, Mariyetta has taught Torts, Legal Research and Writing, Contracts, and Civil Procedure as an adjunct professor of law at the California School of Law.

Examples of Mariyetta Meyers-Lopez’s recent successful representations include:

• Dismissal of action against defendant employer with court costs awarded to employer after successful demurrer eliminating some causes of action and a motion for undertaking demonstrating likelihood of success on the remaining causes of action
• California Court of Appeals reversal of grant of summary judgment to defendant appraiser after successful argument, that, despite lack of prior precedent directly on point, California law on negligent misrepresentation permits a finding of a duty of an appraiser to non-client purchasers of real estate
• Settlement for nominal amount after a successful demurrer and motion to strike filed in a labor and employment dispute
• Successfully moved for deemed admissions against defendant seller of real estate effectively eliminating all disputed issues of fact as to breach of contract and fraud at trial