William M. Crosby 

William M. Crosby is one of the founding partners of Barnes, Crosby, FitzGerald & Zeman. For over 22 years, Mr. Crosby has specialized in employment law, primarily representing employees in discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour claims, and wrongful termination based upon breach of express and implied contract and public policy claims. Mr. Crosby is recognized as one of the state’s top employment law attorneys, and was honored in 2002 as the “Top Gun” Employment Lawyer of the Year from the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association. He has tried over 40 employment law cases to verdict in the Superior Court of California and in federal court. 

Mr. Crosby was admitted to the State Bar of California in 1971, and is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court for the Central, Eastern, Northern, and Southern Districts of California, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He has been a member of the Employment Law Panel of the American Arbitration Association in Orange County, and served on the Consulting Group to the California State Bar Committee on Legal Specialization for Certification of Labor and Employment Law. He is a member of the American Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law Section; the Orange County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law and Business Litigation Sections), where he served as a board member from 1988 through 1991; the State Bar of California, for which he served as a Probation Officer and Referee from 1978 through 1994; the American Board of Trial Advocates (Advocate status); the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association, where he served as a board member from 1983 through 1986; the California Employment Lawyers Association, for which he was a founder and board member from 1986 through 1994; the Consumer Attorneys of California; and the National Employment Lawyers Association. Mr. Crosby currently serves as a board member of “Workplace Fairness.” He has been selected by his peers to be included in the 2006 edition ofThe Best Lawyers in America. 

Mr. Crosby is also a prolific writer and lecturer on employment law issues. He has written and lectured to attorneys for the California Continuing Education of the Bar. He is the author of “Presenting the Plaintiff’s Case,” Wrongful Termination Practice, CEB 1986, and the CEB Action Guide “Handling a Wrongful Termination Action.” He has written articles on employment law and trial practice for the Consumer Attorneys of California Forum, the Orange County Bar Association Orange County Lawyer magazine, the Orange County Trial Lawyers Association newsletter, and the Los Angeles Daily Journal. 

Mr. Crosby received his A.B., cum laude, from the University of California at Berkeley (1967) and earned his J.D. from Loyola Law School (1970).