Labor & Employment

Seyfarth Shaw’s Labor & Employment practice is organized to provide extraordinary, cost-effective results for our clients.  For more than 60 years, we have been known as the “go to” labor & employment firm for business.  Our deep team, with over 350 employment specialists at all levels of experience in our nine U.S. offices, includes over 100 employment lawyers in California.  But what truly distinguishes our approach is a focus on expertise within the broad field of employment law and litigation.  Our employment attorneys are organized to leverage their knowledge of the key workplace subspecialties, such as employment class actions, wage and hour issues, employee benefits lawsuits, workplace safety matters, and labor-management relations disputes, to name a few.  We also are organized by industry groups, to put us in the best position to understand our client's needs and deliver results.

Seyfarth Shaw Class Action Report - 2009 Edition

Chicago, IL (January 13, 2009)—The fifth Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report by Seyfarth Shaw LLP, one of America’s leading full-service law firms, analyzes the foremost class action and collective action decisions of 2008 involving claims against employers in federal and state courts. The key class action and collective action settlements over the past year are also analyzed, both in terms of gross settlement dollars in private plaintiff and government-initiated lawsuits, as well as injunctive relief provisions in consent decrees. Seyfarth Shaw’s fifth Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 650 decisions in its comprehensive examination of class action litigation... [Read more]