• Eric Amdursky
      2765 Sand Hill Road
      Menlo Park, CA, 94025
      Phone: +1-650-473-2644
      Fax: +1-650-473-2601
  • Evelyn L. Becker
      1625 Eye Street, NW
      Washington, DC, 20006
      Phone: +1-202-383-5378
      Fax: +1-202-383-5414
  • Apalla Chopra
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6082
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • Scott H. Dunham
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6060
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • David Herron
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6230
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • Chris Hollinger
      Two Embarcadero Center, 28th Floor
      San Francisco, CA, 94111-3823
      Phone: +1-415-984-8906
      Fax: +1-415-984-8701
  • Tom Jerman
      1625 Eye Street, NW
      Washington, DC, 20006
      Phone: +1-202-383-5233
      Fax: +1-202-383-5414
  • Jeffrey Kohn
      Times Square Tower
      7 Times Square
      New York, NY, 10036
      Phone: +1-212-326-2067
      Fax: +1-212-326-2061
  • Gordon E. Krischer
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6010
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • Michael McGuinness
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6557
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • Robert Siegel
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6005
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
  • Framroze Virjee
      400 South Hope Street
      Los Angeles, CA, 90071
      Phone: +1-213-430-6045
      Fax: +1-213-430-6407
PROFESSIONALS

  • Cintas Corporation
    Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
    HCA
    Korn/Ferry International
    Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Sony Pictures Entertainment
    Southern California Edison
    Sutter Health
    Trader Joe’s
    US Airways
    Verizon

Labor and Employment

Amid the vast array of challenges facing today’s employers, labor and employment claims number among the most potent threats to productivity, profitability, and even company viability. Faced with corporate campaigns waged by labor unions, lawsuits originating from the Private Attorneys General Act, and wage and hour class actions, today’s businesses require innovative strategies to keep the playing field level. For more than 50 years, O’Melveny’s labor and employment lawyers have established and honed a strong reputation for helping companies cope in the face of changing business conditions around the country and across industries.

O’Melveny is dedicated to building an effective and collaborative working relationship with your company when you need advice and guidance you can trust, from lawyers who understand your organization and industry, as well as the risks and opportunities you face on a daily basis. By working closely with our class action, white collar, and intellectual property colleagues, we can respond quickly and efficiently to large-scale workforce crises, including cases dealing with unlawful competition, trade secret misappropriation, covenants not to compete, and employee raiding.

Our labor and employment lawyers are recognized for handling cases that make national headlines. For example, our long-standing experience in the airline industry led US Airways to call on us for help in its effort to obtain nearly $1 billion in annual labor and benefits cost-savings in proceedings before the US Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. This case was the first time in the history of the airline industry that a bankruptcy court rejected a collective bargaining agreement under Section 1113 of the Bankruptcy Code.

Key Facts

  • Our practice is recognized for outstanding work by Chambers USA (2007), The Best Lawyers in America (2007), and International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (2007).
  • We have successfully litigated and settled many major wage and hour class actions. 
  • We have successfully opposed class certifications of wage and hour class actions. 
  • A number of our lawyers practice in the employee benefits space, including seven partners who, on average, have more than 20 years of experience each. 
  • We represented Lockheed Corp. before the US Supreme Court in a landmark ERISA case. 
  • We represented US Airways before the US Supreme Court in a landmark Americans with Disabilities Act (the “ADA”) case. 
  • We represented Amgen Inc. in one of the first cases filed under the Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004. 
  • We have led the battle against union corporate campaigns—with tremendous success—for Cintas Corporation and for Sutter Health. 
  • We represented a large Fortune 500 Shipping Company in a landmark case enacting the Class Action Fairness Act (the “CAFA”).

Practice Strengths

  • Class Action and Multi-Plaintiff Litigation
  • Collective Bargaining
  • Corporate Campaigns
  • Discrimination and Sex Harassment
  • Employee Benefits and ERISA
  • Employment Counseling
  • Executive Compensation
  • Internal Investigations and Audits
  • Non-Solicitation and Non-Compete Agreements
  • Railway Labor Act (RLA)
  • Safety and Health
  • Trade Secret Litigation
  • Unfair Competition and 17200 Litigation
  • Wage and Hour
  • Wrongful Discharge and Whistleblower Litigation

Marriott International Inc. Sutter Health Cintas Corporation Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Trader Joe’s
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