Ms. Julie A Pace, Attorney

Julie Pace has significant experience counseling and representing businesses in a broad range of employment, litigation, construction, corporate, and government investigations, regulatory, and administrative matters. She prepares employment handbooks and policies, guides employers through difficult HR issues, she has handled more than 1,000 I-9 and E-Verify compliance investigations, and has defended employers in more than 1,000 OSHA, investigations, including more than 350 fatality cases. She has experience with independent contractors and alleged misclassification issues and defends claims of sexual harassment, employment discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower, and wrongful discharge, and matters involving the EEOC, ACRD. OSHA, ICE, OFCCP, DOL, NLRB, ADA, FMLA, ERISA, WARN, PPA, CARES Act, SIGPR Audits, COVID-19, ACA, Davis-Bacon, wage and hour laws, FAR, SCA, and government contracts. She regularly provides training to companies and conducts investigations. Her corporate experience includes guiding businesses with corporate formalities, governance, and acquisitions, ranging from family businesses to nine-figure transactions. She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being named one of Arizona’s 10 most influential lawyers by Arizona Business Magazine.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Attorney	Messner Reeves	Phoenix, Arizona	2022-2023
Attorney	Gammage Burnham PLC		2019-2022
Senior Member	The Cavanagh Law Firm	Phoenix, Arizona	2010-2019

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University	J.D.	Law School	1992
Arizona State University	B.S.		1983

State / Court	Date
Arizona	1992
9th Circuit
9th Circuit, US Supreme Court
US Supreme Court

• What Employers Need to Know About Immigration Law, I-9s, and E-Verify
  
  Update on New and Proposed State and Federal Laws and Interpretations
  
  Million Dollar Mistakes: Top DOL Wage and Hour Cases and What You Can Learn from Them
  
  DOL’s New Guidance on Independent Contractors
  
  Interplay of ADA, FMLA, Workers’ Compensation and Paid Leave Laws
  
  Conducting Compliance Audits: Wage and Hour, I-9s, OSHA Safety, and COVID-19
  
  Drug and Alcohol Free Workplace Policies in the Age of Medical and Recreational Marijuana
  
  Responding to an EEO Charge
  
  Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), Wage & Hour, and New Federal Legislation
  
  Co-editor-in-chief, Arizona Human Resources Manual Federal Employment Law: An Employer’s Guide, third through 18th editions, a 600+ page book published by American Chamber of Commerce Publishers, Chicago.
  
  Co-editor-in-chief, Model Policies and Forms for Arizona Employers, a book published by American Chamber of Commerce Publishers, Chicago.
  
  Co-editor-in-chief, I-9s, E-Verify and Immigration Compliance, a book published by American Chamber of Commerce Publishers, Chicago.
  
  Editor and contributor, Arizona Employment Law, published by the State Bar of Arizona.
  
  Co-Author, Placing SB 1070 and Racial Profiling into Context, and What S.B. 1070 Reveals about the Legislative Process in Arizona, Arizona State Law Journal, Summer 2011, Vol. 43, Issue 2.
  
  Co-Contributor, Legal Briefs on Immigration Reform from 25 of the Top Legal Minds in the Country, 2010.
  
  Enforcement of Tribal Law in Federal Court: Affirmation of Indian Sovereignty or a Step Backwards Towards Assimilation? Arizona State Law Journal 24 (Spring 1992)
  
  Co-editor, Native American Graves and Repatriation Act Arizona State Law Journal (24 Spring 1992)

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