Deanna Mouser founded Mouser Law Firm, a Professional Corporation to provide clients with exceptional service and advice. Since 1989, Ms. Mouser has focused her practice on employment law representing management for private and public entities and on legal advice for public entities.
Ms. Mouser has extensive experience assisting clients in each of the following areas:
  • Preventive counseling and advice,
  • Hiring issues and advice, including employment applications, criminal conviction history compliance, offer letters, and contracts,
  • Drafting and reviewing employee handbooks, personnel rules, board policies, and other policies,
  • Harassment and discrimination prevention, response, and defense, including successful dismissal of complaints or charges filed with government agencies including Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), Department of Fair Employment & Housing (DFEH), and Office for Civil Rights (OCR),
  • Discipline, performance improvement, and termination issues, advice, and litigation, 
  • Wage and hour issues (including Fair Labor Standards Act, overtime, collective and class actions, meal/rest periods, commission disputes, audits, and Labor Commissioner conferences and hearings), 
  • Disability, reasonable accommodations, and interactive process, 
  • Safety and health issues, including COVID-19 issues,
  • Defamation, privacy, interference with contracts, and other employment torts,
  • Social Media issues, including NLRB opinion memoranda,
  • Leaves of absence (including pregnancy disability, disability, family and medical care leaves, and new parent bonding leaves), 
  • Unemployment benefits, 
  • Independent contractor issues, 
  • Investigations of employee misconduct and assisting clients with investigations, including Title IX sexual harassment investigations for colleges and schools,
  • Arbitrations and grievance issues,
  • Reductions in force, layoffs, and WARN notices,
  • Workplace violence prevention plans and response (including obtaining TROs), 
  • Collective bargaining, representation petitions, and labor relations issues, including PERB and NLRB proceedings,
  • Informative and energetic trainings for clients on employment law topic including sexual harassment prevention, conducting investigations, effective performance improvement and documentation, disability accommodations and interactive process, workplace violence prevention and response, and leaves of absence,
  • Student discipline and student rights, including Making the GRADE (Student Discipline Training),
  • General counsel and advice for public entities.
Ms. Mouser sincerely hopes this background will illustrate the many ways in which Ms. Mouser is uniquely positioned to serve your needs. But the law is ever-changing, so Ms. Mouser will not rest on her past successes. She will work to both anticipate and shape those changes for the benefit of her clients and the  communities her clients serve. Ms. Mouser develops innovative legal arguments, strives to provide the highest quality legal work, and will spare no effort to do the best that can be done for a client’s factual situation.

Ms. Mouser is grateful for the confidence that her clients have placed in her since 1989. 

Ms. Mouser recognizes that many legal questions require prompt and reliable responses to avoid immediate and irreparable consequences. If you are looking for responsive and effective counsel, Ms. Mouser would appreciate the opportunity to meet and talk to you about your needs and goals and to answer any of your questions directly. Ms. Mouser prides herself on meeting the specific needs of every client she serves.