Aparna B. Joshi, Co-Chair of O’Melveny’s Labor and Employment Practice, represents employers in a wide variety of labor and employment matters. Aparna has substantial experience advising aviation industry clients, representing airlines in federal court litigation under the Railway Labor Act, as well as in labor arbitrations, mediations, collective bargaining negotiations and proceedings before the National Mediation Board and the National Labor Relations Board. She also has significant experience representing clients in employment class action litigation as well as in international labor matters. Additionally, Aparna represents employers in a wide range of employment discrimination matters including Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, wrongful discharge, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act. She further routinely advises clients on employee terminations and other employment matters. Aparna actively works to improve diversity in the legal profession including as a member of the Firm’s Diversity Working Group and as a past Fellow of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity (LCLD), a growing organization of more than 200 corporate chief legal officers and law firm managing partners dedicated to creating a truly diverse legal profession. She recently helped spearhead the creation of O’Melveny’s DE&I and Affirmative Action Task Force, which advises employers on challenges to corporate diversity programs.