Danielle K. Little has extensive experience handling complex tort, labor and employment, premises liability, landlord tenant, ADA compliance, auto liability, public entity liability, business litigation, real estate, contractual disputes, appellate, civil rights and criminal defense matters. Danielle’s practice has included the representation of both plaintiffs (including, government classified and managerial personnel) and defendants which has enabled her to have a keen awareness of the complexity of litigation from both sides.

Prior to joining GRSM, she was a Partner at another AMLaw 100 law firm where she handled general liability and ADA compliance matters. Little has extensive experience handling labor and employment, ADA compliance, complex tort, premises liability, landlord-tenant, auto liability, public entity liability, business litigation, real estate, contractual disputes, appellate and criminal defense matters. Little also has experience handling employment and licensure matters before the EEOC, the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing, the California Labor Commissioner’s Office, the California Department of Social Services, the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, the California Board of Registered Nursing and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing.

Danielle’s written work has been published in The New York Law Journal, Diversity & the Bar Magazine, QBR: The Black Book Review and several literary publications. She has also served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Long Island University and as an Adjunct Lecturer at City University of New York – Queens College, where she taught undergraduate Composition and Literature course.

Admissions

  • California
  • New York
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Courts, Central and Northern Districts of California
  • U.S. District Courts, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York

Memberships

  • Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles
  • Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Inc.

Education

  • Master of Fine Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Concentration in Creative Nonfiction, 2004
  • J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law, 1995
    • Prosser Prize (Welfare, Social Security and the Law)
    • Associate Editor, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law
    • Member, International Tax & Business Lawyer
  • B.A., Social Ecology, University of California, Irvine, 1992
    • Dean’s List (Recipient, Multiple Quarters)

Honors

  • Named to the National Black Lawyers Top 100 List