Alexandra Shulman

Alexandra Shulman is a Partner at Buchalter and a member of its Labor & Employment and Litigation Practice Groups. She represents businesses in complex employment disputes and provides strategic advice intended to reduce litigation risk. Her practice includes wage and hour class and collective actions, discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, trade secret disputes, restrictive covenants, and emergency injunction proceedings. She also advises employers on day-to-day compliance and workforce decisions.

Shulman earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where she served as a Production Editor for the Virginia Tax Review and as a Dillard Fellow. She earned a B.A. in Classics and English, with honors, from Johns Hopkins University. Her legal education and writing experience support a practice that requires detailed statutory analysis, careful factual development, and clear advocacy in employment litigation and complex commercial disputes.

Shulman has defended employers in wage and hour class actions, FLSA collective actions, and individual employment cases involving discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and accommodation claims. Her representative work includes obtaining dismissals, summary judgment, and a defense verdict in high-exposure disputes. She also handles temporary restraining orders and preliminary injunctions involving trade secrets and noncompetition obligations, while advising employers on policies, leave, privacy, discipline, termination, accommodations, and workforce restructurings.

Alexandra Shulman has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America and previously as an Oregon Rising Star in Employment & Labor. She is admitted in Washington, Oregon, Alabama, and Texas, along with several federal courts. Her practice combines courtroom advocacy with preventive counseling, allowing employers to address immediate disputes while improving policies and decision-making processes that can reduce future legal risk and support broader business objectives.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Buchalter
• Member, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, Alabama State Bar
• Member, Oregon State Bar
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Women Lawyers Section Executive Board, Birmingham Bar Association (2013-2015)
• Member, Owen M. Panner American Inns of Court
• Associates Committee, Campaign for Equal Justice (2015-2017)
• Member, Oregon Association of Defense Council

Licensed State

• Washington
• Alabama
• Oregon
• Texas

Education

• University of Virginia School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Johns Hopkins University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Classics and English

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