Andrew Sommer

Practice Areas

Workplace Safety and Catastrophe Management

California Litigation and Appellate

Class and Collective Actions

Counseling and Advice

Litigation and Trials

Wage and Hour

Career

Andrew J. Sommer is a partner in the firm’s Los Angeles office. He defends businesses in workplace safety inspections, investigations, and enforcement actions brought by Cal/OSHA and other OSHA state programs. He has extensive experience litigating OSHA citations on appeal through trial, representing employers during OSHA investigations, conducting OSHA compliance audits, defending whistleblower claims, and providing OSHA compliance advice to clients.

Andrew is also highly experienced in defending individual and collective actions involving a wide array of wage and hour, whistleblower, disability, and wrongful termination claims. He takes a strategic and creative approach in providing advice and counsel to businesses, as well as resolving disputes in court and administrative proceedings.

Andrew is a sought-after speaker and has presented at conferences and events including for the American Society of Safety Professionals, National Safety Council, and Risk Management Society, and his interviews and writings have been published in Bloomberg News, Associated Press, Inside OSHA, SHRM, Business Insurance, Practical Guidance, and Law360, among others.

Andrew has led coalitions of employers and trade organizations in advocating to the Cal/OSHA Standards Board over workplace safety rulemaking and was a member of Cal/OSHA’s COVID-19 Prevention Rulemaking Advisory Committee. He presently serves, in a Government Affairs role, on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Safety Professionals, Long Beach Chapter.

Professional Memberships

Member, American Society of Safety Professionals/Long Beach Chapter

Member, American Bar Association, Workplace & Occupational Safety & Health Law Committee