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Marguerite Maria Longoria

Marguerite Maria Longoria is a partner in the law firm of Burr & Smith, LLP, specializing in class and collective litigation involving wage and hour, employment and civil rights. She attained admission to The Florida Bar in 1994 and the Virginia Bar in 1995. She has been certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Florida Bar's Board of Legal Specialization and Education since 2001 and is also a member in good standing of the Northern, Middle and Southern District Courts of Florida. Currently Marguerite is serving on the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyer's Association ("NELA") and the Executive Council of the Labor & Employment Section of the Florida Bar. She has been designated a SuperLawyer by her peers for since 2006 as annually published in Florida Monthly / Law and Politics Magazine. She is experienced in litigating cases in administrative forums, state and federal court.

In addition to being active in NELA, Marguerite is a past President of NELA's Florida Chapter as well as a past chair of the Labor and Employment Section of the Hillsborough County Bar Association and the Tampa Legal Panel of the ACLU, and a former Barrister and member of the Executive Committee of the Tampa Bay Inn of Court . In May 2009, Marguerite and her partner Sam Smith published an article in the Florida Bar Journal on overtime protections for drivers of light-weight vehicles. Marguerite is also the author of an article exploring the topic of class actions under Florida's Constitutional amendment requiring the payment of minimum wage which appeared in the November 2005 issue of the Florida Bar Journal. She is also a contributing author to ch. 15, "Collective Actions Under the FLSA & EPA," of a pending BNA publication entitled "Class Actions in Employment Law," and a co-author of the chapter on "Employment Agencies," to be published in the Fourth Edition of the ABA's Employment Discrimination Law treatise in August 2007. Marguerite frequently speaks to attorneys at national education conferences on class and collective actions for unpaid wages under state and federal wage and hour laws. A native of Washington, D.C. with an undergraduate degree in English literature and psychology from the George Washington University, Marguerite earned her law degree from Stetson University College of Law, cum laude, in 1993

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