Anthony J. Oncidi is the co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters.
Tony is recognized as a leading lawyer by such highly respected publications and organizations as the Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, and Chambers USA, which gives him the highest possible rating (“Band 1”) for Labor & Employment. According to Chambers USA, clients say Tony is "brilliant at what he does… He is even keeled, has a high emotional IQ, is a great legal writer and orator, and never gives up." Other clients report: “Tony has an outstanding reputation” and he is “smart, cost effective and appropriately aggressive.” Tony is hailed as "outstanding,” particularly for his “ability to merge top-shelf lawyerly advice with pragmatic business acumen.” He is highly respected in the industry, with other commentators lauding him as a "phenomenal strategist" and "one of the top employment litigators in the country."
Tony is the author of the treatise titled Employment Discrimination Depositions (Juris Pub’g 2020; www.jurispub.com), co-author of Proskauer on Privacy (PLI 2023), and, since 1990, has been a regular columnist for the official publication of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of California and the Los Angeles Daily Journal.
Tony has been a featured guest on Fox 11 News and CBS News in Los Angeles. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading national media outlets such as The National Law Journal, Bloomberg News, The New York Times, and Newsweek and Time magazines. Tony is a frequent speaker on employment law topics for large and small groups of employers and their counsel, including the Society for Human Resource Management ("SHRM"), PIHRA, the National CLE Conference, National Business Institute, the Employment Round Table of Southern California (Board Member), the Council on Education in Management, the Institute for Corporate Counsel, the State Bar of California, the California Continuing Education of the Bar Program and the Los Angeles and Beverly Hills Bar Associations. He has testified as an expert witness regarding wage and hour issues as well as the California Fair Employment and Housing Act and has served as a faculty member of the National Employment Law Institute. He has served as an arbitrator in an employment discrimination matter.
Tony is an appointed Hearing Examiner for the Los Angeles Police Commission Board of Rights and has served as an Adjunct Professor of Law and a guest lecturer at USC Law School and a guest lecturer at UCLA Law School.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Anthony J Oncidi
- The Wait is (Almost) Over! California Greenlights Resumption of Music, Film and Television Production - (Posted On Monday, June 08, 2020)
- Court Affirms $2.9 Million Verdict Against Employer That Failed To Obtain Green Card For Employee - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Racial Discrimination/Sexual Harassment Case Was Properly Dismissed On Summary Judgment - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Unlimited Vacation Policy Failed To Properly Compensate Employees - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Court Should Not Have Dismissed Self-Represented Employee’s Claims - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Court Orders Higher Prevailing-Plaintiff Attorneys’ Fees In Disability Discrimination Case - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- After-Acquired Evidence Was Properly Used To Defeat ADA Claim - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Employer Did Not Violate FCRA By Providing Disclosure Along With Other Materials - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Employees Who Were Required To Call-In Prior To Shift Were Entitled To Reporting-Time Pay - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
- Court Reverses $13 Million Gender Discrimination Verdict Entered Against UCLA - (Posted On Wednesday, May 20, 2020)
Anthony J Oncidi's thought leadership on California Employment Law has been selected for a National Law Review Go-To Thought Leadership Award. Mr. Oncidi’s understanding and analysis of California Employment law is top-notch, providing NLR readers with important information about the evolving employment landscape in a state that often paves the way for the rest of the country. His monthly roundup of litigation in the state is a helpful resource. Subscribe to the Proskauer Rose blog, California Employment Law Update here.
The National Law Review names Proskauer Rose LLP a Go-To Thought Leader in the field of health law for its coverage of healthcare worker benefit improvement in 2022 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Edward S. Kornreich, Whitney Phelps, and Laura M. Fant detailed how New York funded bonuses for certain frontline healthcare workers in the state budget. Additionally, Anthony J Oncidi and Ariel N. Brotman discussed the recent healthcare workers minimum wage reform in California. Proskauer’s thought leadership in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely well read and demonstrates the depth of knowledge of Proskauer’s Healthcare group in this area.