Julia Jenness is the Managing Shareholder for Boutin Jones Inc., Sacramento’s second largest law firm. As Managing Shareholder, she is Chairman of the Board of Directors and leads the business development, business and management efforts of the 50-lawyer firm in California’s capital. In addition to her role leading the firm, she has a thriving law practice where she serves as outside General Counsel and Special Counsel to some of the region’s largest companies, special districts, and nonprofits.

She works with employers on all aspects of the employment relationship: reductions in force, termination issues, severance agreements, and employee training, counseling and discipline. She advises employers on wage and hour issues, reasonable accommodations under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and the federal Americans with Disabilities Act, and compliance with the Family Medical Leave Act. She has many years of experience conducting sexual harassment investigations for businesses and public entities, including investigations involving publicly-elected officials and the executives of multi-billion dollar private entities. She has drafted executive compensation plans, as well as employment, change in control, indemnification, employee leasing and independent contractor agreements.

In addition to her career-long focus on employment law, Julia has spent the bulk of her career working with financial institutions. She helps banks, credit unions and other financial institutions on federal and state regulatory compliance with agencies such as the California Department of Business Oversight, the FDIC, the Federal Reserve Board and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.  She has written vendor, loan purchase and loan participation agreements. She has represented financial institutions, as well as their directors and officers, in business transactions and on the same range of employment issues and agreements that she has for other industries.

Whether it’s counseling clients, structuring employment and severance agreements, or talking to a company about a security risk—it all fits into the category of solving problems for employers.