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Leslie joined Ogletree Deakins in 2007 as part of the merger of Ogletree Deakins and Lewis Fisher Henderson & Claxton, a labor and employment law firm with offices in Tennessee, Mississippi and California.  Leslie also served as in-house counsel at a financial institution representing the bank in a broad range of litigation matters, including trial work as well as monitoring outside counsel for the bank as both plaintiff and defendant in breach of contract, real property disputes, commercial transactions, construction defect, wrongful termination and related employee disputes. Leslie continues to litigate employment matters at Ogletree Deakins, representing a wide range of clients in both single plaintiff and class action, wage and hour matters. Leslie uses her expertise to advise clients on a broad range of employment issues, with an emphasis on auditing employment practices, including wage and hour issues, leave issues, disability and accommodation issues, accommodating flexible workplace arrangements, discrimination and harassment issues and trade secret and unfair competition.  Leslie prepares responses to administrative complaints in the areas of harassment and discrimination, whistleblowing and wage and hours charges.  Leslie also has extensive experience providing training in many areas, including harassment, discrimination, disability and accommodation, wage and hour issues, workplace investigations and the relationship between federal and California employment law.