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, and New York.
Employment Law Counseling and Litigation
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, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation/whistleblower claims. In addition, Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers 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.
Experience Counts
Our Managing Shareholder, Jeffrey S. Sloan, is a former Equity Partner in one of the largest and most prestigious law firms in the country. He was recognized by U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Lawyers in America” in the field of employment law in 2020 and has been named a Northern California “Super Lawyer” in employment law every year since 2021. In short, Jeffrey brings to Workplace Legal over 30 years of employment law expertise and, due to having founded and launched several startups, a business-owner’s sensibility and problem-solving focus.
This makes Workplace Legal Employment Lawyers unique. We approach every client and every matter from a business perspective because we’ve owned businesses too. We’ve launched companies, built HR infrastructures, and hired employees. Along the way, we’ve seen and done it all – from analyzing whether someone is an employee or independent contractor, to navigating complex leave of absence rules, to managing difficult employee terminations, to debating whether to settle or litigate an employee dispute, to choosing a law firm.
In short, we’ve walked in your shoes.
We understand your challenges.
And we can help.
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.