Charles F. Barker - Partner - Los Angeles
Mr. Barker has extensive experience in state, federal and administrative trials involving claims of wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, unfair labor practices, overtime compensation, and other labor-related issues.
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Ellen Bronchetti - Partner - San Francisco
Ms. Bronchetti represents and counsels management clients in all areas of labor and employment law arising under federal and state law, including discrimination and sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, collective bargaining, labor arbitrations, and preventative employer training and counseling.
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David B. Chidlaw - Partner - San Diego
Mr. Chidlaw has broad experience counseling and defending employers on a wide variety of employment issues, including immigration. He has defended employers in wrongful termination and employment discrimination litigation, including sexual harassment, race, age, national origin, gender, and disability discrimination.
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John D. Collins - Partner - Del Mar Heights
Mr. Collins combines extensive jury trial experience with an established position as one of the area's leading labor-management advocates/negotiators. He has been general labor counsel to a number of employer associations, including Associated Builders and Contractors of San Diego and Restaurant-Hotel Employers Council of San Diego (a multi-employer bargaining group).
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Jeffrey A. Dinkin - Partner - Santa Barbara
Mr. Dinkin's experience spans both private and public sector labor relations, including more than twenty years of negotiating collective bargaining agreements. He has represented employers from start-up companies developing personnel policies and employee handbooks, to established companies expanding into California.
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Gregg A. Fisch - Partner - Century City
Mr. Fisch has extensive experience in all aspects of litigation, and has successfully defended management before federal and state courts and administrative agencies in defense of complaints for class action and single-plaintiff matters, involving wage-and-hour violations, wrongful termination, age, race, gender, and national origin discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and other statutory, contract and tort-related claims, as well as in relation to union campaigns and elections.
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Richard M. Freeman - Partner - Del Mar Heights
Mr. Freeman specializes in general business litigation and labor and employment matters exclusively on behalf of management. His litigation experience includes numerous state and federal court jury trials, injunctions, arbitrations, class actions, and administrative trials.
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Michael Gallion - Partner - Century City
Mr. Gallion focuses his practice on defending companies in all aspects of labor and employment law. Mr. Gallion has developed a special expertise in handling class and complex litigation, including nationwide, high-stakes wage and hour and discrimination disputes. Mr. Gallion also represents a broad array of clients in single plaintiff employment litigation and routinely advises clients on the most challenging aspects of employment law, including wage and hour compliance, leave and accommodation issues, issues related to mergers and acquisitions, and reductions in force. Mr. Gallion represents clients in a number of industries, including retail, real estate, entertainment, insurance, and healthcare.
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Jason R. Gasper - Partner - Los Angeles
Mr. Gasper represents employers in various labor relations matters involving state and federal wage and hour laws, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, employee discipline and termination, employee benefits, and affirmative action. He has significant experience representing employers in wage and hour class actions.
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Guy N. Halgren - Partner - San Diego
Mr. Halgren represents employers in wage/hour disputes, class action lawsuits, discrimination and sexual harassment claims, policies and handbooks, collective bargaining, wrongful discharge claims and other labor litigation. Mr. Halgren is chairman of Sheppard Mullin's Executive Committee.
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Samantha D. Hardy - Partner - San Diego
Ms. Hardy practices labor and employment law, with an emphasis on California and national wage and hour issues. She has a significant amount of experience representing employers in wage and hour class actions, as well as representing employers before administrative agencies, advising management on wage and hour matters, and conducting wage and hour audits to identify potential issues. She also handles a variety of other types of labor and employment matters, including immigration matters.
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Derek Havel - Partner - Los Angeles
Mr. Havel handles all facets of the litigation process in labor and employment disputes. Mr. Havel has jury trial experience; has taken and defended hundreds of depositions; written and argued motions for summary judgment; and provided advice on human resources and personnel issues.
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James R. Hays - Partner - New York
Mr. Hays' practice focuses on management labor and employment law. He represents clients in employment litigation in federal and state courts, as well as various arbitration forums, and in proceedings before various administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Department of Labor, and state agencies throughout the United States. James also represents clients in collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitrations, and all stages of the labor election process, including election campaigns and hearings before the National Labor Relations Board.
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Kelly L. Hensley - Partner - Los Angeles
Ms. Hensley is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. She regularly counsels employers in all aspects of California and federal employment law, including hiring and discipline procedures, unfair competition matters, worker classification issues, leaves of absence, wage and hour law, and employee severance and termination strategies.
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Ron Holland - Partner - San Francisco
Mr. Holland's practice focuses exclusively on representing management in traditional labor law and employment law issues. Mr. Holland also focuses on helping employers prevent employee-related problems before they become lawsuits by conducting manager and employee training.
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Ronda D. Jamgotchian - Partner - Century City
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Ms. Jamgotchian has defended employers against a variety of employment-based charges, including allegations of harassment, retaliation, and discrimination based on age, race, sex, national origin, and disability, along with wage and hour violations, breach of contract, and wrongful termination.
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Thomas R. Kaufman - Partner - Century City
Mr. Kaufman's practice is in employment litigation defense, with an emphasis on California Labor Code and federal wage/hour class actions. Mr. Kaufman has handled class litigation matters for a wide variety of industries, including banks and mortgage lenders, hospitals, large newspapers, information technology companies, restaurants, and other retailers. Mr. Kaufman also is experienced in litigating employment discrimination cases, including winning several jury trials.
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Jason W. Kearnaghan - Partner - Los Angeles
Mr. Kearnaghan represents employers in state and federal courts with respect to all facets of employment law including wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, retaliation, sexual harassment, and hostile work environment. A significant portion of his practice is devoted to the defense of complex wage and hour class action litigation. He has considerable experience representing employers in union grievance proceedings.
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Tracey A. Kennedy - Partner - Los Angeles
Ms. Kennedy is an experienced trial attorney in state and federal court, and has tried to verdict business and employment matters including age, race, sex and disability discrimination, sexual and racial harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. She also provides preventive counseling to clients concerning personnel and employment matters.
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Sheldon K. Kline - Partner - Washington, D.C.
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Mr. Kline represents clients in labor negotiations, in bankruptcy, federal and state court litigation, and before administrative agencies, particularly the National Labor Relations Board and the National Mediation Board. He has considerable experience in all facets of transportation, including the representation international and domestic airlines, trucking companies, maritime, and ports.
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Richard W. Kopenhefer - Partner - Century City
Mr. Kopenhefer represents management in all aspects of labor and employment law, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour, unfair competition, collective bargaining, grievance and arbitration, worker's compensation, workplace safety and OSHA.
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Greg S. Labate - Partner - Orange County
Mr. Labate is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. He has extensive experience in defending employers against claims of discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of contract, defamation, invasion of privacy, workplace violence, wage and hour issues, other related matters.
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Richard L. Lotts - Partner - Los Angeles
Richard Lotts has extensive experience representing management in traditional labor law matters. Mr. Lotts has had experience practicing before the National Labor Relations Board in both unfair labor practice and election matters. He has achieved a remarkably high degree of success in matters before the Board, particularly on behalf of employers wishing to preserve their non-union status. Mr. Lotts' traditional labor law practice also includes the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, and the handling of arbitrations pursuant to such agreements.
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Matthew S. McConnell - Partner - Del Mar
Mr. McConnell primarily specializes in labor and employment matters on behalf of management. He has significant trial experience and has achieved multiple defense verdicts. He has extensive experience defending employers in wrongful termination and employment discrimination litigation, including claims for harassment, discrimination, and retaliation. He also has significant experience representing employers on a variety of issues including representative and class action wage and hour matters, traditional labor matters, unfair competition claims, breach of contract, fraud and prevailing wages.
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Ryan D. McCortney - Partner - Orange County
Mr. McCortney represents employers in state and federal trial court and appellate proceedings as well as administrative proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the U.S. Department of Labor, the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, and OSHA.
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Otis McGee, Jr. - Partner - San Francisco
Mr. McGee's employment-related experience includes the primary responsibility for single plaintiff and class-action employment litigation including claims for discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful discharge, disability discrimination and wage and hour matters.
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Eric Raphan - Partner - New York
Mr. Raphan's practice encompasses a wide range of labor and employment matters, including the defense of single plaintiff and class action discrimination, wrongful discharge and wage/hour claims, in addition to employment contract, non-competition, whistleblower, sexual harassment and related claims.
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Jennifer G. Redmond - Partner - San Francisco
Jennifer Redmond helps employers avoid lawsuits by counseling them on compliance with federal and state employment laws. When lawsuits cannot be avoided, Ms. Redmond is experienced in defending employers against claims of trade secret theft, defamation, disability discrimination, failure to accommodate, wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, fraud, wage and hour violations, and all other types of employment-related claims.
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Richard J. Simmons - Partner - Los Angeles
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Mr. Simmons represents employers in various labor relations matters involving state and federal wage and hour laws, wrongful discharge, employment discrimination, employee discipline and termination, employee benefits, affirmative action, union representation proceedings, and contract arbitrations.
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Dianne Baquet Smith - Partner - Los Angeles
Ms. Smith has extensive experience representing management in litigation of wrongful discharge, discrimination, and other types of employment cases through jury trial. She has trained and advised clients on personnel, loss prevention, operating safety and other subjects facilitating preventative action and legal compliance.
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Jonathan Stoler - Partner - New York
Mr. Stoler is co-chair of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. His practice encompasses a wide range of labor and employment matters, including the defense of single plaintiff and class action discrimination, wrongful discharge and wage/hour claims, in addition to employment contract, non-competition, whistleblower, sexual harassment and related claims. He regularly represents clients in labor and employment litigations in federal and state courts, in arbitrations before the American Arbitration Association and the Financial Industry Regulation Authority, and in proceedings before various administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor and state agencies throughout the United States. Mr. Stoler also represents clients in collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitrations and all stages of the labor election process, including election campaigns and hearings before the National Labor Relations Board.
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