INTRODUCING NEW EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

KANDICE CANCHAN

Kandice Canchan has stellar taste in literature. "I have been reading the Labor and Employment Law Review as long as I can remember," she says—adding that she finds the content helpful and thoughtful and is in awe that so many of the authors have been pioneers in the field. And now, after a decade of practicing in the area exclusively on the business side, she is relishing the opportunity to serve on the section’s Executive Committee. "I want to contribute. It’s time," she says.

Canchan says she was first drawn to the law for the same baldly naive reason that drew so many others: the need to "fight for justice and civil rights." But a class with a visiting professor at Loyola Law School trained her passion on employment. "For the first time, I was fascinated, enthusiastic about this area of law. I thought: ‘What an interesting practice area.’" The job security was just gravy. "I also thought: ‘We’ll always have employers and employees."

She is now a partner at O’Hagan Meyer’s Los Angeles office, defending insurance defense and private clients in diverse cases, including wage and hour, FEHA, Unruh, and PAGA claims. What keeps her truly interested in the work, she says, is that the factual patterns are never alike.