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Saskia T. Asamura is a shareholder in the Litigation and Labor
and Employment Departments at Richards, Watson & Gershon. As
a litigator, Ms. Asamura specializes in the area of inverse condemnation,
takings, due process, equal protection, civil rights, and other
constitutional, tort and nuisance cases involving property damage
and personal injury. These include claims arising out of flooding,
landslides, sinkholes, dangerous conditions of public property,
impairment of access, precondemnation activities, and challenges
to local ordinances and regulations, among many others. She has
successfully represented numerous cities and public agencies in
these and other types of civil litigation, including challenges
to administrative, regulatory, legislative, and quasi-adjudicatory
actions of local government bodies, construction defects and public
works cases, contamination and remediation issues, and general public
sector litigation matters of all types, at both the trial and appellate
level in state and federal court.
Ms. Asamura also specializes in employment litigation. She is
Assistant Chair of the Firm's Labor and Employment Department and
previously served as its Chair. She represents clients in all types
of employment litigation such as wrongful termination, discrimination,
retaliation, harassment, and other claims under the FEHA, Title
VII, First Amendment, ADA, and the Tort Claims Act. She also handles
these and other issues arising in the public housing context. She
litigates public sector retirement issues, and advises on disciplinary
matters for public clients.
Ms. Asamura joined RW&G in 1991 after clerking in 1990, and
became a shareholder in 1999. While in law school, Ms. Asamura represented
the UCLA School of Law in the National Moot Court Competition, with
her team taking First Place and Best Brief awards at the Regional
Championships, and then represented UCLA at the Final Competition
at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Ms. Asamura
has co-taught the Pretrial Advocacy clinical course at the University
of Southern California Law School.
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B.S., Honours, London School
of Economics, 1979
J.D., University of California School of Law, Los Angeles, 1991
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