Julie A. Pace is a partner in the Litigation Department and a member of the Labor, Employment & Immigration Group.

Ms. Pace concentrates her practice in the fields of employment, OSHA, health care, and construction. She is a litigator, defending sexual harassment, employment discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower, wrongful discharge suits, and EEOC charges. She handles matters involving ICE, OFCCP, DOL, NLRB, and is well-versed in wage and hour laws. She frequently conducts investigations and provides training to managers and employees, including I-9 audits and training.

Ms. Pace also counsels employers on non-compete contracts, confidentiality agreements, employee discipline, drug testing, accommodation of disabled individuals, leaves of absences, workplace violence, safety policies, and other human resource policies and procedures, contract disputes, business torts, trade practices and construction. She regularly prepares and reviews employee handbooks and safety manuals.

For over fifteen years, Ms. Pace has regularly represented companies in OSHA proceedings and has handled hundreds of OSHA matters and over 45 fatalities in the workplace. She has been working on fall protection issues since the fall protection standard went into effect in 1995.

Ms. Pace has served as a Judge Pro Tem in the Arizona Court of Appeals. She was a law clerk for the Honorable Joe W. Contreras, Arizona Court of Appeals from 1992-93. She was also a legal extern for the Honorable Robert C. Broomfield, United States District Court, District of Arizona, in 1990.

Ms. Pace is an active member of the American Bar Association, Arizona Bar Association, Maricopa County Bar Association, National Women Lawyer’s Association and the Arizona Women Lawyer’s Association.

Ms. Pace is the co-editor-in-chief of Arizona and Federal Employment Law: An Employer’s Guide, a 500 page book in its seventh edition, published by the Arizona Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Pace is a well-known, professional speaker and trainer, with a training DVD called “Respect” that is marketed nationally. She regularly speaks at national conventions for the accounting, hospitality, and home building industries as well as various OSHA conferences. Ms. Pace speaks at approximately 20 seminars per year.

Ms. Pace has been actively involved in the Phoenix community for many years. Her community leadership includes being co-chair of the statewide coalition of business, labor, religious and civil rights groups that opposed anti-employer immigration ballot initiatives and serving as chair of the committee that sponsored a new Arizona Cardinals football stadium. Ms.Pace is also the Chair of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce and Industry's Immigration Policy Committee.

Ms. Pace is a graduate of Arizona State University (B.S., magna cum laude 1983) and Arizona State University College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1992) where she served as symposium and articles editor of the Arizona State Law Journal and received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Service to the College of Law.

A detailed listing of Ms. Pace’s recent speaking engagements, professional memberships, and community and civic involvement follows on the next page.

Practice Area Focus
Labor, Employment & Immigration
Litigation

Additional Practice Areas
Construction
Health Care

Licensed To Practice In
Arizona 1992
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona, 1992
U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit 1995
U.S. Supreme Court, 1997

Education
Arizona State University College of Law J.D. 1992
Arizona State University B.S. 1983

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