Labor & Employment Law Blog

Cindy is head of the firm's business and tax team and represents both for profit and nonprofit clients in all types of general corporate transactional matters including entity formations, corporate governance, compensation ...

Sarkis Atoyan represents clients in all aspects of labor and employment law, including wage and hour (including class actions), wrongful discharge, discrimination/harassment, retaliation, and leaves of absence. Mr. Atoyan has ...

Eddy Beltran is a member of AALRR's Facilities, Construction, and Property Practice Group. Mr. Beltran’s specialized expertise is the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).  His experience includes the preparation and ...

William Betley represents employers in all areas of employment law, including unlawful harassment, discrimination, employee classification, wage and hour, class action and PAGA matters. He provides his clients full service ...

Brigham Cheney represents employers in all aspects of labor and employment law, including employee class action lawsuits; traditional labor law; discrimination, harassment, and wrongful termination litigation; breach of ...

Michele Collender represents private entities in complex litigation matters in federal and state courts. She has a unique background in defending independent contractor structured businesses against allegations of ...

Kevin Dale provides legal services to both public and private sector clients.  Mr. Dale provides services to various public agencies including school districts, housing authorities, cities, counties, water agencies, and other ...

Scott Dauscher is Chair of the firm’s Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group. He also serves as Chair of the firm’s Class Action Defense Group, managing AALRR’s extensive class action practice and its team of ...

Alexandria Davidson represents California public school districts as general counsel.  She has experience with employment-related matters, including certificated and classified employee discipline, reductions of force ...

Bill Diedrich represents school districts, community college districts, and other public agencies in all aspects of labor and employment law.

Having served for more than a decade as Chief Negotiator for school districts and ...

Lauren Fierro is an associate in the Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group where she divides her practice between private labor and employment litigation, advice and counsel, and business and commercial litigation ...

Mr. Fleck is the former Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.

As a trusted advisor, Paul Fleck works closely with his business clients navigating the ...

Lauren S. Gafa is an associate in the Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group. She works with many clients in a variety of industries including entertainment and media, environmental, financial services, life sciences ...

L. Brent Garrett is a seasoned labor lawyer with 20 years of experience representing employers in complex labor relations matters. Mr. Garrett represents employers across all industries, including construction, healthcare ...

Evan Gautier is a corporate transactional and tax attorney. Mr. Gautier’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law including entity formation and corporate governance issues, transactional tax ...

Daniel (“Danny”) Gavilanes represents corporations, private equity and individual clients in a wide range of transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, financial transactions, tax, and ...

Carol Gefis has over 30 years of experience representing and advising employers in all areas of labor and employment law, including alleged wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, unfair competition, and wage and hour ...

Jennifer Grock focuses her practice on advising and counseling employers on all aspects of the employment relationship. She is dedicated to client service and believes in taking a proactive approach that emphasizes each ...

Kieran Hartley represents private employers in a broad spectrum of California labor and employment issues. His practice focuses predominantly on employer defense against wage and hour claims. Mr. Hartley has extensive ...

Amber Healy has extensive experience litigating class actions and complex matters in state and federal courts throughout California. Her practice focuses on the defense of employers and management in class action ...

Jonathan Judge advises employers in various labor and employment law matters, including drug testing, mass layoffs (WARN), disparate impact analysis, immigration compliance, trade secrets, privacy, technology in the ...

David Kang has extensive experience with a broad range of commercial litigation matters, including matters pertaining to wage & hour issues, with a focus on class action and PAGA representative lawsuits; matters pertaining to ...

Nate Kowalski is Chair of the firm’s Public Entity Labor and Employment Practice Group. He is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sectors. Mr. Kowalski has litigated hundreds of ...

Iris Kristoff represents and works with a variety of clients on addressing and resolving labor and employment-related issues. Her practice focuses on advising and counseling California and multi-state employers on managing ...

Geoffrey La Val has extensive experience representing businesses and employers throughout California in all aspects of labor and employment law, including defense of wage and hour class actions and also representative action ...

Joshua Lange provides advice and counsel and litigation representation for employers in an array of labor and employment matters, with an emphasis on complex wage and hour class actions, harassment, discrimination and ...

Catherine Lee specializes in employment, financial institution, and complex commercial litigation as well as data security and privacy.

Ms. Lee counsels and represents employers of all sizes.  She has prevailed in state and ...

Thomas Lenz leads the firm’s private sector labor relations team. He is a recognized authority in all aspects of labor and employment law with noted expertise in collective bargaining and all issues pertaining to the National ...

David Lester represents and advises private employers in a variety of industries including colleges and universities, healthcare, regional centers, recreation, construction, real estate, and entertainment on a variety of ...

Martin Li represents private sector employers in employment related issues, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful terminations, wage and hour litigation, and alleged civil rights violations. Mr. Li ...

Mia Lomedico handles all matters related to private labor and employment. She has litigated employment cases in arbitration and state and federal civil court involving the Fair Employment and Housing Act, the California Family ...

Jorge Luna has been practicing law since 1996 in a variety of areas, including employment, construction, business litigation, intellectual property and entertainment.  For the past 17 years, Mr. Luna has focused his practice ...

Brian Martin is an accomplished business and employment litigator and trial and appellate attorney with more than 20 years of experience representing clients in the private sector. Mr. Martin focuses on finding the most ...

Bronte Mehdian counsels clients on labor and employment matters such as how to avoid exposure to employment litigation and to properly investigate employee grievances. Her employment law practice involves the defense of ...

Ronald Novotny has been representing employers in labor and employment matters in federal and state courts and administrative agencies in California since 1981. He has extensive experience involving union and employer unfair ...

Michael J. O’Connor Jr. represents businesses and employers throughout the region in class action defense, regulatory compliance, collective actions, commercial proceedings, and claims ranging from alleged wrongful ...

Aaron O'Donnell represents California community college districts, universities, and school districts in education and employment-related matters. He provides experienced advice and counsel to clients in all aspects ...

Shawn Ogle is a seasoned litigator in the firm’s Commercial and Complex Litigation Practice Group with a proven history in a broad range of commercial, class action defense, and high-profile trust & estate matters.  Mr. Ogle prides ...

Sharon Ormond chairs the firm’s Associate Mentoring and Training Committee and is a member of the firm’s Higher Education, Title IX, Civil Rights, and Wage and Hour groups. She represents numerous Community College Districts ...

Joseph Pelochino represents a range of clients in employment-related claims and litigation, including claims for wrongful termination, harassment and retaliation, as well as class and representative action wage and hour ...

Chesley Quaide focuses on education law and labor relations and employment/labor law. He served as General Counsel of the Merced County Office of Education from 1991-2004, and has served as General Counsel of the Stanislaus ...

Todd Robbins represents public school districts in the areas of education law, certificated and classified employee discipline, certificated layoffs, harassment and discrimination complaints, and contract ...

Irma Rodríguez Moisa is an experienced litigator, labor negotiator, and trial attorney representing public and private entities in labor and employment matters. She is recognized as one of the top Labor and Employment lawyers ...

Casandra Secord represents employers in single plaintiff and class action employment litigation involving allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, wrongful termination, wage and hour ...

Christina Semmer is an experienced employment and business litigator, advisor, and relied upon problem-solver for her clients. Ms. Semmer’s employment law practice focuses on representing employers with respect to various ...

Jon Setoguchi serves as the firm’s deputy general counsel. He works closely with the firm’s leadership and provides legal advice and risk management support to the firm’s attorneys on a variety of legal and ethical issues. Mr ...

Ann Smith is an experienced litigator who represents management in all aspects of employment litigation, including defending claims for wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and leave of absence ...

Amber Solano is Chair of AALRR's Private Labor and Employment Practice Group, covering nine offices throughout California.

Ms. Solano is an accomplished litigator who represents employers in both the private and public sector in ...

Susana Solano advises employers and management regarding issues arising out of the employee-employer relationship, including the prevention of employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, and ...

Susan Steward provides expert representation to every client she serves, both as counsel and in the courtroom. Ms. Steward has worked closely with for-profit and nonprofit companies, governmental entities, trade associations ...

April Szabo focuses her practice on employment matters, with an emphasis on practical, cost-effective client counseling and litigation. She specializes in providing clients with Human Resources guidance, including wage/hour ...

Jay Trinnaman specializes in the representation of both public and private sector employers in all aspects of labor relations and employment law matters, including disciplinary and grievance arbitrations, unfair labor practice ...

Jonathan Vick is a member of the Facilities, Construction, and Property Practice Group and has more than 30 years of experience in state and federal courts and administrative agencies. He started his career working for the United ...

Michael R. Watts is an accomplished litigator who focuses his practice on training and advising clients regarding workplace violence and safety issues. Mr. Watts also leads and assists employers with sensitive investigations ...

Robert Wenzel represents a diverse clientele in the private sector which includes health care providers, residential construction companies, manufacturing concerns, restaurants and hotels, retail establishments, food ...

Brian Wheeler leads the firm’s Intellectual Property and Data Security & Privacy team. His practice focuses on intellectual property, data security and privacy, and high-stakes complex commercial litigation, water ...

Glen Williams has counseled and represented business management in all manner of employment matters including investigations and litigation of claims of discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination, as well as ...

Kimberley Worley has nearly 30 years of experience representing employers in matters ranging from individual discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and retaliation litigation to wage and hour compliance, class ...