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Practice Areas: Class Actions/Multi-District Litigation; Government Relations; Labor & Employment Law, Employee Benefits; Litigation (State & Federal)

Additional Information: Diana has 12 years experience in the corporate and nonprofit sectors, including litigation; administrative, regulatory and legislative advocacy; policy analysis and management. She brings a unique skill to our clients in the area of compliance review. She has extensive experience in providing external reviews for companies which includes an analysis of work place policies and procedures, identifying areas of exposure for potential litigation, and offering solutions that not only ensure compliance, but also the adoption of better work place practices. She also has experience in Government Relations and representing clients with policy makers in order to negotiate compromises that are best for all parties.

Diana Vermeire joined the Oklahoma City office as an Of Counsel attorney August 1, 2012. She and her family relocated to Oklahoma, where she lived as a teen, from California. While in California, Diana has served as the Director of the ACLU of Northern California's Racial Justice Project, which utilizes a combination of litigation, legislative and other legal advocacy, public education and organizing strategies to advance the cause of civil rights for communities of color. She also served as a staff attorney with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area. During this time she managed and supervised the work of cooperating attorneys from outside, volunteer law firms on litigation and amicus briefs before state and federal appeals court, including the United States Supreme Court. Diana has also worked in media litigation while with Davis Wright Tremaine involving defamation, newsgathering and privacy. While in the law firm, she also represented clients in commercial litigation involving breach of contract, default and class action claims.

Diana attended the University of Southern California where she received her Bachelor's of Arts in Sociology and she received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center.

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