Wendy Lazerson is the co-chair of the Labor and Employment Group. For over twenty years, Wendy has been advising corporate clients and handling their employment disputes in the courts, arbitration and mediation. Wendy’s strategic approach to litigation has afforded her clients successes that are available only through a thoughtful and proactive approach to dispute resolution.
For the last several years, Wendy has been actively involved in the wage and hour arena, where she has attained successes for clients in both federal collective actions and state class actions. She is intimately familiar with class action procedure and law, and her knowledge of wage and hour class law has led to excellent results for clients in a variety of industries. Wendy works with her clients to gain knowledge of their businesses, using the facts at hand to win convincing victories. Wendy has defended these cases in the state and federal courts of northern and southern California and in the arbitration forum.
In addition, Wendy handles a wide variety of employment disputes including individual discrimination and wrongful discharge cases, trade secret and unfair competition cases. Wendy also is very involved in assisting clients with the employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including due diligence advise, drafting of agreements, and strategically addressing both employee retention and reduction.
