Angeles Garcia Cassin

Angeles has substantial experience representing companies in disputes involving executive compensation and severance arrangements, including high-stakes claims brought by executives and other senior employees. She also focuses on trade secret misappropriation, restrictive covenants, non-compete and non-solicitation agreements, breach of fiduciary duty, and related contract claims. Her experience includes defending companies against claims involving the misuse of confidential information and enforcing contractual and common-law protections for businesses’ most valuable assets and relationships. 

Her restrictive covenant and trade secret practice extends well beyond litigation. Angeles has deep experience drafting and advising on multi-jurisdictional restrictive covenant, non-disclosure, confidentiality, and related employment agreements, helping companies protect their confidential information, customer relationships, and workforce while navigating the increasingly complex and varied requirements of state and federal law.

Angeles counsels clients nationwide, partnering with in-house legal, human resources, and business teams on day-to-day employment matters. She advises clients of all sizes on federal, state, and local employment laws; executive compensation and severance arrangements; employment agreements; restrictive covenants; workplace policies and handbooks; investigations; and strategies for reducing litigation risk before disputes arise. Her advice is practical, business-oriented, and scalable, designed not only to address legal requirements but also to work within the realities of each client’s business.

She also advises clients on emerging workplace issues, including the development and implementation of AI tools in compliance with applicable state and federal employment laws. She works with clients to identify legal and operational considerations as they incorporate AI into employment-related processes and business practices, helping them navigate evolving legal requirements while pursuing responsible and effective innovation.

Angeles is known for her ability to listen to clients, understand their legal and business needs, and partner with them to achieve meaningful results – whether in the courtroom, at mediation, or through day-to-day counseling. She has secured complete defense verdicts and case dismissals in discrimination, retaliation, and accommodation claims, defeated wage and hour class certification, and first-chaired jury trials that resulted in defense verdicts in commercial disputes.

Before entering private practice, Angeles worked at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Immigrant and Employee Rights Section, experience she draws on when guiding employers through Form I-9 and E-Verify investigations. Fluent in Spanish, she regularly represents clients in employment and commercial disputes involving Spanish-language documents, witnesses, or proceedings.