BIOGRAPHY
LINDA HENDRIX MCPHARLIN
Counselor and trial attorney. Linda Hendrix McPharlin has more than 25 years of experience as a trial attorney and counselor. She specializes in employment law and is a frequent writer and lecturer in the field. She has served on the Executive Board of the California State Bar's 5,000-member Labor and Employment Law Section and now is an advisor to the Board. In an independent survey of 4,000 Silicon Valley executives, Ms. McPharlin was voted the best provider of employment law services in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ms. McPharlin is a member of the board and past president of the American Inns of Court XII, an organization of attorneys and judges committed to professionalism, civility, and ethics in the practice of trial law.
Mediator and arbitrator. In her role as a neutral, Ms. McPharlin has acted as an arbitrator, neutral evaluator, and mediator (trained at Harvard Law School’s Mediator Training Institute). She has also served as a Special Master, investigator, and expert witness in employment cases. She provides these services privately and for the American Arbitration Association, the California Court of Appeal, First Appellate District; the United States District Court; the Superior Courts of Santa Clara County and San Mateo County; and the Private Adjudication Center of Duke University.
Law firms. Ms. McPharlin is a principal of McPharlin Sprinkles & Thomas LLP, in San Jose, California. Before forming this firm in 1990, she was a partner with Hopkins & Carley in San Jose and, prior to that, she was with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati in Palo Alto.
Education. She is a graduate of UCLA where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. degree in 1976 from Santa Clara University, magna cum laude.
Publications. Ms. McPharlin has written for the State Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Quarterly (Choosing the Right Mediator, May 2003, and Layoff and Termination Issues Created by the Economic Downturn, January 2002). She was a Consulting Editor for CEB’s Employment Law Compliance for New Businesses, 1998, and the author of Privacy Rights of Employees: A Guide for California Employers, a CEB client handbook. She also authored What Employers Ask Their Lawyers, a regular column in the San Jose Mercury News Business Monday section.