Overview

Roxana E. Khan is a Partner in Lozano Smith's Monterey office. Ms. Khan's practice focuses on public agency issues related to labor and employment and special education. Ms. Khan helps clients utilize preventive measures to abate costly disputes, such as reviewing current policies, practices, and procedures for systemic issues and legal compliance. Ms. Khan has been named to Super Lawyers magazine's "Rising Star" list four consecutive years (2013 - 2016).

Experience

Ms. Khan has represented and advised school districts, county offices of education, and mental health agencies in special education legal matters. She has represented K-12 school districts throughout the state in due process matters, federal court appeals, mediations, IEPs, resolution sessions, and the manifestation determination review process.

Ms. Khan has also represented and advised public, private, and non-profit employers in all areas of labor and employment law, including issues pertaining to wage and hour claims, reductions in force, alternative workweek schedules, paid sick leave policies, unemployment claims, wrongful termination claims, misclassification, and the ADA, ADEA, FLSA, FEHA, EEOC, NLRB, and OSHA. Ms. Khan drafts and reviews employee handbooks, policies and procedures, pre-hiring checklists, performance evaluations, independent contractor agreements, employee resident agreements, employment contracts, severance agreements, and lease agreements.

Ms. Khan has litigated single- and multi-plaintiff cases involving sexual harassment, wrongful termination, various types of discrimination, and retaliation; wage and hour class actions; collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act; and Private Attorneys General Act lawsuits, in state and federal courts. Ms. Khan has also represented clients in private mediations and before state administrative agencies, including the California Labor Commissioner and the Employment Development Department.

Education

Ms. Khan earned her J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, and a B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies from University of California, Santa Barbara (High Honors).

Community Involvement

Ms. Khan currently volunteers her time as a board member of the Monterey County Women Lawyers Association, and the Central Coast Human Resource Association.

Communication is Everything: Ninth Circuit Declines to Award Private School Tuition to Parents who Failed to Respond to School District’s Offer to Hold IEP Meeting

By: Roxana Khan, Josh Walden- 05/29/2024

Department of Education Releases Proposed Title IX Rule for Transgender Athletes

By: Roxana Khan, Monica Batanero, Emma Sol- 06/08/2023

Student Not Entitled to Receive Medical ABA Therapy on Campus from Private Provider

By: Sarah Garcia, Roxana Khan- 02/14/2022

UPDATE: Parentally-Placed Private School Students Are Not Entitled to IEP Unless They Request One

By: Sarah Garcia, Roxana Khan, Karina Demirchyan- 01/24/2022

Legislature Allocates $100 Million from General Fund for Prevention and Alternative Dispute Resolution of COVID-19 Related Special Education Disputes

By: Roxana Khan- 08/20/2021

School District Cannot Avoid Responsibility For Residential Placement Despite Availability Of Financial Assistance From A Non-Educational Agency

By: Claudia Weaver, Roxana Khan- 12/12/2019

Restraints - How the Law Guides Some of the Most Challenging Classroom Decisions

By: Sarah Garcia, Roxana Khan- 04/16/2019

In a wide ranging discussion on a sensitive and challenging topic, Devon Lincoln discusses the law regarding the use of restraints in school with special education attorneys Sarah Garcia and Roxana Khan. The attorneys discuss real world experiences, the law that applies in this area, and how staff and administrators can best approach these difficult issues.