Band 5
Provided by Heather Sager
Labor & Employment
Class-Action Defense
Emerging Companies & Venture Capital Law
Data Centers and Digital Infrastructure
Retail & Consumer Products
Technology & Communications
Financial Services & Investments
Apparel & Footwear
Sports
Digital Media & Entertainment, Gaming & Sports
Music, Film & Television
Interactive Entertainment
Immersive Technology
Regulated Gaming
Heather Sager has wide-ranging experience litigating complex wage-and-hour matters brought under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state laws, including California's Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA).
Heather's practice was established at the forefront of the wage-and-hour class and collective actions that are now commonplace throughout the country. She emphasizes proactive risk management to avoid litigation and employs efficient and aggressive strategies to help her clients minimize exposure when faced with class, collective, representative, multi-plaintiff, or single-plaintiff lawsuits. As part of due diligence, Heather also provides risk assessments of potential labor and employment exposure in target entities and conducts policy and procedure audits both pre- and post-merger.
Heather is active in counseling and training employers on workplace harassment prevention and unconscious bias and regularly conducts investigations into allegations of inappropriate workplace conduct. She is adept at helping startup clients understand the importance of compliant policies and practices beginning at formation and frequently advises clients on leave issues, employee classification, and independent contractor status, as well as strategies for preventing and addressing misappropriation of trade secrets and unfair competition.
Heather's experience also extends to the traditional labor realm, where she has helped clients prevail in elections, obtained injunctive relief to stop inappropriate union conduct, defeated organizing campaigns, and appeared before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) on countless issues.
Provided by Chambers
Heather Sager is firmwide chair of the Perkins Coie LLP labor and employment practice. She has experience in both wage and hour and collective class actions.
Provided by Chambers
Heather is efficient, sharp and extraordinarily pragmatic on a range of complicated employment and labor-related issues.
Heather is efficient, sharp and extraordinarily pragmatic on a range of complicated employment and labor-related issues.