Patrick M Madden

Practice Areas

Patrick Madden has dedicated the last twenty five years to counseling employers on wage and hour and employment issues and successfully defending employers against wage and hour class actions and other employment lawsuits. Patrick has worked on hundreds of class actions with putative classes ranging up to hundreds of thousands of employees and potential damages at times over a billion dollars. These class actions have involved 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 to employee status by independent contractors and gig economy workers, unfair business practices, discrimination, and retaliation.

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 U.S. 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