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We understand your challenges.
And we can help.
Why Workplace Legal?
Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers represents large corporations, small businesses, startups, and high-level executives and professionals in complex labor, employment, and HR matters. We serve clients from offices in San Francisco, Oakland/East Bay, and New York.
Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers appear before state and federal courts, the California Labor Commissioner, and private arbitrators and mediators in single-plaintiff and class action cases involving wage and hour, PAGA, wrongful termination, breach of contract, Equal Pay Act, retaliation/whistleblower, and discrimination and harassment claims. In addition, Workplace Legal provides daily guidance to clients on all areas of HR and employment law, from creating compliant HR infrastructures to drafting executive employment agreements to advising on employee disability and discipline/termination issues to conducting executive severance negotiations.
At Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers, we approach every client and every matter from a business perspective because we’ve owned businesses too. Our attorneys have launched companies, built HR infrastructures, and hired employees. We understand the challenges of managing a workforce in California and New York — two states with the most difficult, complex, and employee-friendly HR and employment laws in the nation.
Our experience as entrepreneurs informs everything we do. When you bring us an HR or employment issue, we know the law. But we also know the real world. At Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers, we resolve your HR and employment law issues in your real-world context where there are always trade-offs – usually many different ways to approach and resolve a single challenge, each with its own upside/downside, risk/benefit, and cost/reward.
We’ve confronted risk, we’ve quantified it, and we’ve managed it. We get it.
With decades of HR and employment law expertise, and real-world business and management experience, Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers delivers smart, practical, and cost-effective HR and employment law solutions to help you succeed.
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Jun 09 2025U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Heightened Standard for “Reverse Discrimination” Claims
Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services that white, heterosexual, and other “majority group” employees are not required to meet a heightened standard in order to prove illegal employment discrimination. This decision puts majority group plaintiffs on the same legal footing as black, gay, and other minority… Read More
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May 08 2025Don’t Rely on AI (or Lawyers Who Rely on AI) for Legal Advice!
A California federal court in Lacey v. State Farm recently issued a dramatic example of the consequences to lawyers and their clients of trusting artificial intelligence. In what the court described as a “collective debacle,” a large team of high-profile attorneys submitted a brief with faulty – hallucinatory – AI legal research, with damaging effects… Read More
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Mar 29 2025California Pay Data Reporting is Due May 14, 2025
Yes, it’s that time of year again! Private employers in California with 100 or more employees, or 100 or more workers hired through staffing agencies, must file their annual pay data report to the California Civil Rights Department (“CRD”) no later than May 14, 2025. This annual report must include the California employer’s mean and… Read More
