About Anne Garrett
With over twenty-five years of experience as a labor and employment lawyer, Anne Garrett has conducted numerous workplace investigations at worksites ranging from large public agencies and Fortune 100 companies to smaller non-profits and family-owned businesses in areas such as discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, fraud, and other areas of legal compliance. She has participated in the investigative process from multiple vantage points: as an investigator; as a lead investigator overseeing a team; and as acting company counsel managing investigations by internal and external investigators. On a pro bono basis, Ms. Garrett has worked with domestic violence survivors for over a decade. She received the Los Angeles County Bar Association Award for Outstanding Public Service in 2016.
Ms. Garrett earned her Juris Doctor degree at UCLA School of Law and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University. After clerking for the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew, U.S. District Court, Ms. Garrett spent over ten years as a labor and employment lawyer at O’Melveny & Myers, then moved to the De Cardenas Law Group, APLC, where she acted as chief employment counsel for clients in manufacturing and other industries. Ms. Garrett now focuses her practice on workplace investigations. She is an Association of Workplace Investigators (AWI) Certificate Holder. As an active AWI member, she has provided formal continuing legal education training to AWI’s U.S. and international members, and she is a former chair of the AWI Weekly Committee.
The Law Office of Anne Garrett is certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC), as well as a Small Business by the state of California.
