Dominika Batten is counsel in the firm’s Labor and Employment Practice Group, where she represents employers in a broad range of labor and employment law matters, drawing on nearly 15 years of legal experience spanning public service and private practice.
Dominika counsels and defends employers on matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, discipline, leave, and reasonable accommodation. She has extensive experience representing clients in proceedings before the Nevada Equal Rights Commission (NERC) and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as well as litigating employment matters in both state and federal courts. She has represented the prevailing party in two published Nevada Supreme Court decisions involving statutory interpretation and standards of review in employment law*.
Prior to joining Snell & Wilmer, Dominika was an associate attorney at Littler Mendelson, P.C. in Reno, where she represented employers in employment litigation and agency proceedings. Before joining Littler, she served as Senior Associate General Counsel to the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, where she provided legal counsel on judicial ethics and disciplinary proceedings. Before that role, she served as a Deputy Attorney General with the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, advising state agencies on employment law matters and defending the state in administrative proceedings and litigation. Dominika began her legal career in private practice, where she handled a complex civil litigation portfolio and defended clients in negligence and tort actions.
*Past results do not guarantee, warrant or predict future cases.