Gridley Lawyers

Jennifer Duggan specializes in employment law and litigation. She brings more than 24 years of experience representing employers of all sizes. Jennifer founded Duggan McHugh Law Corporation in 2013 with a focus on representing employers to proactively minimize their risk of employment lawsuits, and to make sure that, in the event of a legal claim, they are in the strongest possible position to defend themselves. Jennifer and her team have successfully defended wage and hour class action lawsuits, PAGA claims, as well as individual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims of all kinds, contract and tort-based employment litigation, and unfair competition...

35+ years representing business and business owners in a wide variety of transactional and litigation matters. I act as outside "general counsel" to help my clients navigate legal issues and help grow their business.

Pomona College, BA 1970
Stanford Law School, JD 1975

Please come to see me before you need me. Always free consultations. You will work one-on-one with me. Outside of the office I spend a lot of time gardening and with my pets-a Basset and an American Shepard, which is a smaller version of the Australian Shepard. I also have 7 cats, six are Siamese-Balinese type and one old tiger striped I rescued. I moved to this area in 1999 from the Bay Area where i grew up.

Karen Matcke Crosby Attorney / Mediator P.C. 35+ years of legal practice and 15+ years as a mediator. WHY MEDIATION CAN BE SUPERIOR TO COURT By Karen Matcke Crosby (2021) Court litigation exposes parties to great public exposure, expense and long delays in court proceedings. Litigants have little or no control over the procedural process. How a dispute arose in the first place, is given short shrift, failing to consider the parties’ intentions, experience in negotiations (or lack thereof), personality, ego, culture, norms, morals, bullying, customs, or values. What is heard in court is the representing attorney’s version of his client’s legal...

I have represented injured workers with claims for workers' compensation and Social Security Disability for over 25 years. Our firm also handles disability retirement claims.

Roberto Jimenez, Jr. was born and raised in Stockton, California, the center of the Central Valley. He started his legal career in 2019 at a prominent law firm in Stockton, representing employees and small businesses in addition to tackling a wide range of other legal matters. Following his time at the Stockton law firm, Mr. Jimenez’s experience and knowledge achieved him recognition and employment by one of United States’ largest and well-known employment litigation law firms in Sacramento. At the large law firm, Mr. Jimenez defended large nationwide businesses in a wide range of employment disputes. With this wealth of...