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Cindy Pánuco is a partner at Hadsell Stormer & Renick, LLP. In 2015, Ms. Pánuco served as the President of the Mexican American Bar Association-one of the most prominent and largest Latina/o bar associations in the nation. She was one of the youngest Presidents to lead the organization whose members include attorneys, judges, elected officials, law school students and business people of many ethnic backgrounds.At Hadsell Stormer, Ms. Pánuco represents clients in individual and class action cases at all stages of litigation. She litigates in both state and federal, trial and appellate courts. Since joining the firm, her successful litigation in major cases has protected the rights of employees, workers and the underrepresented.In 2013, Ms. Pánuco second-chaired a trial in which she and her co-counsel obtained an over $4.6 million jury verdict in the wrongful termination case of Denise Steffens v. Regus-a case involving a manager who was fired for reporting the company's wage and hour law violations.In Rodriguez v. City of Los Angeles et al., Ms. Pánuco represents a class of thousands of people affected by the city's gang injunctions that contain unconstitutional curfew provisions. This case resulted in a settlement that established a $30 million Jobs and Education Program in the City of Los Angeles, giving job and education benefits to class members. The settlement also included a process for removal of class members from the gang injunctions, and for this result her team was recognized at the California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year Awards in 2017.She also served as class counsel in Pierce v. County of Orange et al. - a class action that successfully challenged the conditions for disabled inmates at the Orange County jails. In 2011, Hadsell Stormer's lawsuit led a federal court to issue an injunction ordering the jails to remedy severe violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act by June 2013. In February 2014, after two and one half years under federal oversight, the County was found to have remedied the ADA violations. Ms. Pánuco is also on the team litigating Puente v. Arpaio et al.This suit challenges the constitutionality of Arizona laws which make it a felony to use false documents to obtain work, and worksite raid operations ordered by Sheriff Arpaio to targeted at undocumented immigrants.In just her first year of practice, Ms. Pánuco traveled to Guantánamo and joined the trial team that challenged the indefinite detention of Obaiduallh, a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Ms. Pánuco and her co-counsel represented him from his petition for a writ of habeas corpus, through his appeal to U.S. Supreme Court and finally during his Periodic Review Board hearing, after which he was finally released and repatriated in August 2016. In addition to her expert legal help, she actively works to spread awareness about indefinite detention at the camp.After just two years in practice, Ms. Pánuco was named to the Southern California Super Lawyers® - Rising Stars list in 2012, and again every year since then through 2016. In 2016, she was recognized as one of the Top 50 Women Rising Stars in Southern California. She is active in numerous professional organizations. She was recently selected as a Lawyer Representative to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference, and also serves on the Diversity Outreach Committee of the California Employment Lawyers, and Loyola's Junior Alumni Advisory Group. She has also appeared on panels before bar associations and conferences and is frequently asked to speak at law schools and citizens’ organizations. As a native Spanish speaker, Ms. Pánuco has also appeared as a guest commentator on Univision's know-your-rights segment, Conozca Sus Derechos.” She also serves on the Executive Board of a non-profit legal services organization - California Rural Legal Assistance.Ms. Pánuco's legal career began as one of ten post-graduate fellows through the prestigious American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Fellowship Program in 2009. As a fellow

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