Labor & Employment

About

Provided by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

With more than 110 attorneys located across eight offices in California, Sheppard Mullin’s Employment practice group has expertise in all matters affecting the workplace, including wage and hour, class and representative actions, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, labor union management relations, non-compete and trade secrets, employment agreements and compliance. We are a go-to resource for employers with operations in California and across the country, and have expertise assisting employers in the healthcare, retail, transportation, financial services, fashion, hospitality, and food and beverage industries.

Chambers-ranked practitioner, Richard Simmons, literally “wrote the book” on wage and hour law for employers. Many of our California attorneys are experts in this area with extensive knowledge of state and federal wage and hour laws and how they affect the daily operations of employers in the state. We are at the cutting edge of wage and hour class and PAGA representative actions and have defended employers in thousands of these actions over the years. We also proactively assist employers with their internal audits so as to avoid enforcement actions. When such enforcement actions do occur, our attorneys regularly represent clients before the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement and the federal Department of Labor. We are a leader in providing harassment and discrimination training, defense and preventative advice to companies and their employees.