
HR & Employment Law Expertise
Real-World Management Experience
We’ve walked in your shoes.
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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Jul 07 2025
Prospective Meal Period Waivers are Enforceable
A new decision from the California Court of Appeals in Bradsbery v. Vicar Operating, Inc. confirms that an employee can prospectively waive a future meal period for a shift that does not exceed 6 hours so long as the prospective waiver is in writing, uncoerced, and revocable. Under California law, non-exempt employees must receive a… Read More
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Jun 20 2025
Re-Thinking 1:1 Meetings
Fast Company recently published an article about how advancements in AI are making one-on-one meetings irrelevant. For decades, the one-on-one meeting has been essential in the world of management serving as a touchpoint meant to build trust, boost engagement, and coach performance. However, in today’s AI-enhanced and hybrid work environment, the one-on-one is starting… Read More
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Jun 16 2025
Workplace Legal Welcomes New Senior Counsel Allison Ziegler
We are thrilled to announce that Senior Counsel Allison Ziegler joined the firm today! Ms. Ziegler will work out of our San Francisco and New York City offices.