Carol L. Gillam
President, The Gillam Law Firm
1880 Century Park East, Suite 600
Los Angeles, California 90067
T: (310) 203-9977
F: (310) 203-9922
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Carol Gillam is founder and president of The Gillam Law Firm, a firm devoted principally to employee rights litigation. After stints at Keck Mahin & Cate in Chicago and Irell and Manella in Los Angeles, Ms. Gillam became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office, Central District of California in 1988. While there she prosecuted numerous well publicized cases, including a notorious case involving abuses of migrant workers that resulted in worldwide publicity and the largest restitution award achieved to date by the U.S. Department of Justice in such a case.
Since leaving the government in 1994 to open her firm, Ms. Gillam has obtained several 7-figure settlements and verdicts (and scores of 6-figure verdicts and settlements) in employment cases. She has litigated in federal and state courts throughout California and in states across the country, as well as before the EEOC and MSPB, handling a wide variety of complex cases.
Ms. Gillam has brought and successfully resolved numerous cases alleging religious discrimination and failure to accommodate, in addition to handling age, disability, FMLA, sexual harassment, whistleblower and other challenging cases.
Carol has successfully litigated several class action cases recently, being appointed as class counsel and achieving millions of dollars and other relief for workers.
She graduated from Northwestern University with honors in 1974 and holds a law degree from Loyola University of Chicago (1978), where she was an associate editor of the law review.
She has served as an adjunct professor of law and has lectured and written for a variety of national and statewide legal organizations including the American Bar Association, California Employment Lawyers Association and the State Bar of California.
Recently she conducted a mock trial - a demonstration of how to try a sexual harassment case before a statewide audience of lawyers. She regularly updates the book, California Causes of Action: Employment.
The State Bar of California has appointed Carol to the Executive Committee of its Labor and Employment Section.
She serves on the editorial board of the Practical Litigator magazine, a national publication for trial lawyers put out under the auspices of the American Bar Association.
Ms. Gillam is a Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. Election as a Fellow is the highest recognition by one's colleagues of sustained outstanding performance in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence.
Carol has been named by the Daily Journal, the legal newspaper of California as one of the top 75 employment lawyers in the state (one of 18 plaintiffs' attorneys so named). She has been named a Superlawyer in 2010, 2011, and 2012.
She was also honored as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, an honorary organization of judges, lawyers and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and the highest principles of the legal profession. Election as a fellow is limited to the top 1/3 of one percent of the profession.
Carol has recently spoken to national audiences on a variety of issues including LBGT Issues in the Workplace: Implementing Inclusion (an ALI-ABA presentation), religious harassment and accommodation (National Employment Lawyers Association annual conference) and trial techniques (American Bar Association annual conference).
Carol is the proud mother of four accomplished children and loves playing tennis and attending concerts in her spare time (of which she "Aint Got Much", to quote a song by her youngest child Kate Crash).
