Brett C Bartlett

Member: Seyfarth’s Labor Employment Leadership Team; Compensation Committee; Atlanta, Georgia Labor & Employment Department. Co-Chair: National Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group. Provider of strategic, business-practical advice regarding employer-employee relationships and risk. Assisting employers with overtime pay exemptions, independent contractor classification, joint employer risk, and compensation practices; innovative complex class and collective action litigator defending businesses’ worker classification and pay practices, having defended more than 300 complex, class, and collective action employee pay lawsuits. Conduit to panoply of exemplary client legal services provided by top-notch teams in the U.S. and beyond.

Representing businesses across industries in matters affecting the bottom line. Helping in-house counsel to be so much more than a cost center. Trusted advisor to businesses complying with worker pay/classification laws and avoiding class and collective action litigation. Forward-thinking advisor to private equity and portfolio companies on labor/employment and related matters before, during, and after M&A transactions (buy- and sell-side). Obsessed with the Space Economy, the intersection of Employment and Space Law, and the need to grow the pool of talent supporting our race to the stars.

ABA; New York Bar; Georgia Bar.

Co-authored definitive treatise, Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation.

Fitness-focused father of two; resilience-minded, retired NCAA All-American swimmer