Denise J. Serra was born in Lodi, California, on February 16, 1951. She attended the University of California, Berkeley, CA, and graduated with a degree in psychology in 1973. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Serra was a deputy court clerk for San Jose-Milpitas Municipal Court. Ms. Serra attended Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, CA, and was admitted to practice law in California in 1978. Ms. Serra is the recipient of several academic scholarships and awards, including the Alumni Scholarship, the John H. Wheeler & Elliot H. Wheeler Scholarship, the Hazel Lagerson Scholarship, the Levi Straus Scholarship, the Hoberg Scholarship and the Ehrman Scholarship Award.

Ms. Serra has authored several published articles including, “Liability for a Prior Company’s Asbestos Claims”, 2004, ADC Comment Article, “Sexual Harassment and Television”, San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 1999, “The Courts Are Consistently Admitting A Broad Spectrum of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Cases”, Summer 2000 Edition of the California Labor and Employment Law Quarterly, State Bar of California, “Housing Discrimination, The Sleeping Giant”, California LawBusiness Supplement to the Los Angeles Daily Journal, June 2000, “The Courts Are Providing Employer Guidance in Defining Hostile-Environment Sexual Harassment”, California LawBusiness Supplement to the Los Angeles Daily Journal and the San Francisco Daily Journal, December 20, 1999, “An Employer Has A Duty to Defend An Employee Accused of Wrongdoing”, Focus of Legal Representation, Oakland Business Review, January 2000, and “Criminal Records Cannot Affect Most Hiring Decisions”, Los Angeles Daily Journal and San Francisco Daily Journal.

Ms. Serra has presented a number of seminars for Lorman Educational Services entitled, “Selected Issues in Evidence for the Trial Practitioner in California”. Additionally, Ms. Serra has been a speaker before the Northern California Human Resources Association and for Women in Business, co-sponsored by the San Francisco Bar Association. She has also been a speaker at Golden Gate Law School for an outside seminar
Ms. Serra’s areas of interest are business, employment and toxic tort litigation. Ms. Serra has handled a wide variety of business related matters, and has defended sexual harassment claims. Additionally, Ms. Serra has prepared multiple asbestos cases for trial and/or settlement, and defends product, friction and contractor defendants.

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