Cindy Panuco

Ms. Pánuco joined Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick, LLP as an associate in January 2010.  She represents clients in cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, whistleblowing, retaliation, wage and hour law, civil rights, and human rights.  Ms. Pánuco is also on a team of attorneys representing a prisoner held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since 2002 in his petition for a writ of habeas corpus. She traveled to Guantánamo to meet with the prisoner in preparation for a Merits Hearing, and was on the team that challenged his continued detention during the Merits Hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia in October 2010.

Ms. Pánuco received her J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and her B.S. in Public Policy and Management from the University of Southern California.  She served on the 2010 Board of the Mexican American Bar Association, and was elected to serve again in 2011.

Before joining HSKRR, Ms. Pánuco was an American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA) Fellow.  As an ABOTA Fellow, she was placed in the firms of Reback, McAndrews, Kjar, Warford and Stockalper LLP, and Greene, Broillet & Wheeler, LLP, as well as in the Chambers of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Stern.  Ms. Pánuco was the first female to be honored with the American Board of Trial Advocates Award for excellence in trial advocacy while serving as an ABOTA Fellow.

At Loyola, Ms. Pánuco was a member of the Byrne Trial Advocacy Team, consistently ranked among the top ten trial advocacy programs in the country, Co-President of La Raza de Loyola, co-founded Loyola's Hispanic National Bar Association Moot Court Team, served as a Coordinator and Mentor in Loyola's Stephen O'Neil Trial Advocacy Mentoring Program and authored an article published in the Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal on the rights of undocumented immigrant workers.

Ms. Pánuco also completed externships with the Immigration Center for Women and Children, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), in the Chambers of United States Magistrate Judge Jeffrey W. Johnson, and in the Los Angeles Office of the Federal Public Defender.  Prior to law school, Pánuco worked for three years in the Washington, DC Office of Congressman Xavier Becerra as a Legislative Assistant and Deputy Press Secretary.