Practice Area:Business, Discrimination, Employment, Partnership Disputes, Real Estate, Sexual Harassment, Wage & Hour, Workplace, Wrongful Termination
Linda Guthmann Krieger grew up in Chicago, Illinois and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of Illinois. She received her Juris Doctor from UCLA, graduating in the top twenty percent of her class.
Linda has extensive experience representing clients at trial, arbitration and mediation, and has a record of favorable outcomes. She acts as corporate counsel for several small to medium sized businesses, advising them on day-to-day employment issues. Linda completed training by the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution from Pepperdine School of Law and has been a mediator for cases in both state and federal court. She is also a third-party neutral investigator assisting employers with internal employee complaints.
Linda is a long-term member of the Settlement Officer Panel for U.S. District Court, Central District of California, and was a member of the mediation panel for Orange County Superior Court. In addition, she has been Chair of the Federal Nominations Committee and Chair of the Work and Family Issues Committee for Women Lawyers of Los Angeles. She was the president of Women’s Business Council, part of the Long Beach Chamber of Commerce, for the 2008-2009 term, and was a board member of the Downtown Long Beach Associates from 2009-2015. She was also on the board of the Long Beach Bar Foundation and a board member of Women Lawyers of Long Beach. She is on the Executive Committee for the Long Beach chapter of Bruin Professionals. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Long Beach Bar Association for many years, including acting as President in 2019.
Education
University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law, J.D., 1990
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, M.A., Sociology, 1987
