Millicent Usoro is an Associate in the Los Angeles office of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore where she provides advice and counsel to clients on a wide variety of education, labor, and employment law matters. Millicent regularly works with community college districts on a variety of issues including investigations, academic and classified employee discipline, student matters, leaves, and layoffs and workforce reductions. Millicent also has experience providing counsel on matters related to governance, Brown Act compliance, policies and procedures, and conflicts of interest.
In addition to her CCD work, she also regularly trains on a variety of topics including EEO Hiring Strategies and Compliance; The Brown Act; Diversity, Inclusion, and Bias; Mandated Reporting; Leaves of Absences; and Labor Relations and Grievances.
Millicent provides expert labor relations advice and counsel to a public agencies and public education clients, including meet and confer obligations, factfindings, employee strikes, and bargaining strategies and tactics. She also has experiencing drafting and reviewing collective bargaining agreements, as well as managing bargaining unit grievances, including responses, mediations, arbitrations, and settlements. Millicent also regularly represents public agencies and public education clients in arbitrations and administrative proceedings in front of the California Public Employee Relations Board, the California Office of Administrative Hearings, and the California Civil Rights Department.
Millicent is one of the firm’s experts on workplace violence. Millicent regularly represents clients in workplace violence restraining order hearings. She also provides legal guidance and strategic solutions to help employers create a safer work environment. Millicent also provides assistance to public employers and has trained hundreds of employees on their employers’ workplace violence prevention plans.
Prior to her work at LCW, Millicent was the Attorney Fellow in the Office of General Counsel at the George Washington University where she provided legal advice and counsel to the University in all aspects of higher education law, including contracting, student privacy, campus speech, Title IX, discrimination, and government investigations.
Professional and Community Involvement
Millicent is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. She also serves as the Member-At-Large of the Black Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Inc.
