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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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