The Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group represents management in all aspects of employment counseling and litigation.

With extensive experience representing employers in state and federal court sexual harassment, discrimination, and wrongful discharge litigation, members of the Labor & Employment Practice Group have been particularly successful in convincing plaintiffs and their attorneys to abandon cases without payment, or to settle matters for nominal sums. In equal employment matters, the Labor & Employment Practice Group has defended numerous single plaintiff suits, and has represented employers in multi-plaintiff cases and in class actions. Members of the Group have defended employers against claims of discrimination based on sex, age, race, physical handicap and national origin, throughout California and in several other states, including Hawaii, Arizona, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, and New York. Although many labor and employment lawyers claim to be "litigators" or have "litigation experience," the Firm's Labor & Employment Practice Group lawyers have successfully tried several employment cases to jury verdict. Thus, our Group is comprised of "trial lawyers" who are well respected by both the Bench and the Bar.

The Labor & Employment Practice Group also represents management in arbitration and before governmental agencies with jurisdiction over the employment relationship, including the National Labor Relations Board, the United States Department of Labor, the California Labor Commissioner, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission, the Workers' Compensation Appeals Board and the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board. Representation of employers during audits and in litigation brought by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and by state and federal agencies enforcing wage and hour laws and regulations, is regularly undertaken by the Labor & Employment Practice Group.

In addition to their litigation and administrative law practice, members of the Labor & Employment Practice Group regularly draft employee handbooks and counsel with management in the review, development, and implementation of personnel policies and practices. Attorneys in the Labor & Employment Practice Group also negotiate collective bargaining agreements, and advise clients on resisting union organizing drives, avoiding unfair labor practice charges, and dealing effectively with strikes, picketing, and boycotts.

Clients served by the Labor & Employment Practice Group include local, national, and international employers engaged in such diverse industries as apparel (including numerous surf wear companies) retail, health care, banking, pharmaceutical, research and development, computer hardware manufacture and software development, recreation (including two large ski resorts), entertainment, and construction. The Labor & Employment Practice Group has assisted clients as diverse as a ten-person medical group and a publicly held telephone company with thousands of employees. Widely recognized for their timely and informative presentations, members of the Labor & Employment Practice Group are in high demand for speeches and seminars to groups of business executives and human resource.