Erin Norris

Erin Norris is a Partner in Dentons' Employment and Labor practice, based in the Los Angeles and Phoenix offices, practicing in Employment Law. She advises employers in litigation, collective bargaining, and compliance, with first-chair jury trial experience, and has successfully defended employers against wage-hour class actions, discrimination, wrongful termination, and whistleblower retaliation claims.

She also represents employers in collective bargaining negotiations, grievance arbitrations, and NLRB proceedings, and counsels on risk management, litigation avoidance, and designing compliant policies and procedures. She was second-chair trial counsel in Walmart Stores Inc., 368 NLRB No. 146, where the NLRB ruled that the employer did not violate the NLRA by restricting union insignia to "small and non-distracting" size on sales floors nationwide, and has appeared in dozens of unfair labor practice proceedings and representation hearings.

Erin holds a J.D., summa cum laude, from the University of Arizona College of Law (2012), where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and Research Editor of the Arizona Law Review, and a B.A., cum laude, in journalism from Arizona State University (2009). She served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Rebecca White Berch of the Arizona Supreme Court. She has been recognized by Chambers USA in Labor & Employment (2025), The Best Lawyers in America in Employment Law and Litigation - Labor and Employment, and as a Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star (2018-2023).