Patricia Martin

Practice Areas

Class Actions; Discrimination and Harassment; Littler Pay Equity Assessment; Staffing, Independent Contractors and Contingent Workers; Unfair Competition and Trade Secrets; Wage and Hour; Whistleblowing and Retaliation

Career

Patricia Martin has successfully represented clients in state and federal courts, as well as before administrative agencies, such as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA); the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; the Missouri Commission on Human Rights; and the Illinois Department of Human Rights. She litigates wage and hour collective and class actions; unfair competition cases; and discrimination cases. Martin has served as national coordinating counsel on wage and hour class; collective, and mass actions pending in courts and before arbitral tribunals across the country.

Martin conducts pay equity audits for all types of employers nationwide. She provides advice and counseling on a wide range of workplace issues, including pay equity compliance and remediation and wage and hour issues. Prior to attending law school, Martin was an investment banking analyst. She combines her financial and legal experience into her pay equity compliance practice. In addition, she serves on the firm’s Shareholder Compensation Committee, providing her with unique insight into the role of the employer and practical experience with compensation decisions and practices.

Additionally, Martin is the Office Managing Shareholder of Littler's St. Louis office and is a member of Littler’s Board of Directors.

Professional Memberships

Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis; Illinois State Bar Association; Missouri Bar Association

Publications

Littler Mendelson on Employment Law Class Actions, LexisNexis, Settling Class Actions, Chapter 13, Contributing Chapter Author, 2nd Ed., 2013; Whistleblowing & Retaliation: A Guide for Human Resources Professionals & Counsel, Littler Mendelson and LexisNexis, The Sarbanes-Oxley Act & Federal Whistleblower Statutes, Chapter 4, Chapter Author, 5th Ed., 2013

Personal

J.D., Harvard Law School, cum laude; B.A., University of Chicago, With Honors, Phi Beta Kappa