Patrick Madden

Practice Areas

Patrick Madden, a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group, has dedicated over 30 years to advising employers on wage and hour and other employment issues, as well as successfully defending them in wage and hour class actions, agency investigations, and other employment lawsuits. Patrick has worked on hundreds of class actions involving putative classes ranging from dozens to hundreds of thousands of employees, and potential damages ranging from hundreds of thousands to over a billion dollars. These cases have addressed wage calculation and payment, compensation design, entitlement to overtime and benefits, off-the-clock claims, rest and meal period claims, challenges to exempt status, claims of employee status by independent contractors and gig economy workers, as well as issues related to unfair business practices, discrimination, and retaliation. In addition to conducting client training programs, Patrick has delivered hundreds of presentations on wage and hour, employment, and class action topics.

Publications

Patrick has been quoted on wage and hour matters in Washington papers as well as the Wall Street Journal and Corporate Legal Times. Beyond the materials for his hundreds of CLEs and seminars, his formal publications on law-related subjects include:

“Platforms Like Uber and the Blurred Line Between Independent Contractors and Employees,” Computer Law Review International, December 2015

“Wage Issues on the Edge: Work Time Claims at the Start and End of the Work Day,” Corporate Counsel Review, May 2011

“Collective Claims: Learning From the US Experience,” PLC Magazine, Jan./Feb. 2008

“Goodbye, Rambo -- Hello, Mr. Rogers?” For the Defense, Dec. 1995

“Don’t Answer That Question,” For the Defense, March 1995

“Federal Labor Law Preemption of State Anti-Takeover Law: A Case of First Impression,” 65 Wash. L. Rev. 457, 1990

Education