Marguerite Maria Longoria is a partner in the law
firm of Burr & Smith, LLP. Marguerite focuses her practice
on the class and collective litigation of employment
disputes and employment and counseling and representing
individuals with respect to employment, severance and
non-competition agreements. Marguerite is an officer on the
Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyer's
Association ("NELA") and is a member of the Executive
Council of the Labor & Employment Section of the Florida
Bar. Marguerite achieved certification in Labor and
Employment Law by the Florida Bar's Board of Legal
Specialization and Education in 2001 (currently expired.)
She is a member in good standing of the Northern, Middle
and Southern District Courts of Florida. She has been
designated a SuperLawyer by her peers since 2006 as annually
published in Florida Monthly / Law and Politics Magazine.
Marguerite is a former President of NELA's Florida Chapter
as well as a former chair of the Labor and Employment
Section of the Hillsborough County Bar Association, 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 the Second
Edition of The Fair Labor Standards Act, (Kearns,
Ed.-in-Chief), ch. 19, BNA, 2010; 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, attained admission to The Florida Bar in
1994 and the Virginia Bar in 1995.
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