Wei Kit 'Ricky'Tai
Associate
Labor & Employment
wktai@seyfarth.com
Ricky delivers practical employment law advice that helps employers manage risk, maintain compliance, and successfully navigate workplace disputes.
More About Wei Kit 'Ricky'
With more than a decade of litigation experience, Ricky represents employers in complex workplace disputes, regulatory compliance matters, and high-stakes litigation. He helps clients with strategic problem-solving—whether by advising on employee relations, managing risk, or handling disputes—allowing him to deliver clear, actionable solutions.
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Ricky was an associate at a midsized full-service Los Angeles firm, where he represented employers, primarily in the entertainment industry, facing claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, and PAGA claims. He provided strategic counsel on California employment laws, conducted sexual harassment training to production studio employees, responded to agency charges before the EEOC and California Civil Rights Department, negotiated favorable resolutions through mediation and arbitration, and drafted employment policies, handbooks, and agreements designed to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Ricky also regularly spoke and wrote on emerging employment law developments, including California's PAGA reforms.
Prior to joining private practice, Ricky served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, where he represented federal agencies in employment discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and disability accommodation matters. Throughout his career, he managed large and complex caseloads, conducted hundreds of depositions, successfully resolved cases through dispositive motions and settlement negotiations, and first-chaired trials in both federal district court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Ricky was an associate at a midsized full-service Los Angeles firm, where he represented employers, primarily in the entertainment industry, facing claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, and PAGA claims. He provided strategic counsel on California employment laws, conducted sexual harassment training to production studio employees, responded to agency charges before the EEOC and California Civil Rights Department, negotiated favorable resolutions through mediation and arbitration, and drafted employment policies, handbooks, and agreements designed to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Ricky also regularly spoke and wrote on emerging employment law developments, including California's PAGA reforms.
Prior to joining private practice, Ricky served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, where he represented federal agencies in employment discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and disability accommodation matters. Throughout his career, he managed large and complex caseloads, conducted hundreds of depositions, successfully resolved cases through dispositive motions and settlement negotiations, and first-chaired trials in both federal district court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
- JD, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, editor - BBA, Georgia State University
Managerial Sciences – Concentration in Human Resource Management
- California
- New York
- US Court of Federal Claims
- US District Court, Central District of California
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Ricky delivers practical employment law advice that helps employers manage risk, maintain compliance, and successfully navigate workplace disputes.
More About Wei Kit 'Ricky'
With more than a decade of litigation experience, Ricky represents employers in complex workplace disputes, regulatory compliance matters, and high-stakes litigation. He helps clients with strategic problem-solving—whether by advising on employee relations, managing risk, or handling disputes—allowing him to deliver clear, actionable solutions.
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Ricky was an associate at a midsized full-service Los Angeles firm, where he represented employers, primarily in the entertainment industry, facing claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, and PAGA claims. He provided strategic counsel on California employment laws, conducted sexual harassment training to production studio employees, responded to agency charges before the EEOC and California Civil Rights Department, negotiated favorable resolutions through mediation and arbitration, and drafted employment policies, handbooks, and agreements designed to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Ricky also regularly spoke and wrote on emerging employment law developments, including California's PAGA reforms.
Prior to joining private practice, Ricky served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, where he represented federal agencies in employment discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and disability accommodation matters. Throughout his career, he managed large and complex caseloads, conducted hundreds of depositions, successfully resolved cases through dispositive motions and settlement negotiations, and first-chaired trials in both federal district court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
Prior to joining Seyfarth, Ricky was an associate at a midsized full-service Los Angeles firm, where he represented employers, primarily in the entertainment industry, facing claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, and PAGA claims. He provided strategic counsel on California employment laws, conducted sexual harassment training to production studio employees, responded to agency charges before the EEOC and California Civil Rights Department, negotiated favorable resolutions through mediation and arbitration, and drafted employment policies, handbooks, and agreements designed to mitigate risk and ensure compliance. Ricky also regularly spoke and wrote on emerging employment law developments, including California's PAGA reforms.
Prior to joining private practice, Ricky served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California, where he represented federal agencies in employment discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and disability accommodation matters. Throughout his career, he managed large and complex caseloads, conducted hundreds of depositions, successfully resolved cases through dispositive motions and settlement negotiations, and first-chaired trials in both federal district court and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
- JD, The University of Tennessee College of Law
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, and Social Justice, editor - BBA, Georgia State University
Managerial Sciences – Concentration in Human Resource Management
- California
- New York
- US Court of Federal Claims
- US District Court, Central District of California