As a leader in private education law and wage and hour law, Liebert Cassidy Whitmore recognizes the risks and navigates the challenges private educational institutions and organizations face regarding the full spectrum of wage and hour issues from overtime to exemption analysis. Our attorneys regularly defend employers in complex wage and hour/FLSA class action and multi-plaintiff lawsuits through all stages of litigation, including jury trials and appeals. In addition, LCW has extensive experience assisting private education clients to ensure that their policies and practices comply with wage and hour laws and best management practices through wage and hour audits and preventative training.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore is proud of its role as a leading wage and hour firm. LCW has been providing wage and hour labor and litigation representation, audit services, advice and counsel, and preventative training to employers across California since 1980.
LCW remains on the cutting edge of wage and hour laws and best management practices, which allows for us to recognize the risks and navigate the challenges our clients face on the full spectrum of wage and hour issues from overtime to exemption analysis. Our attorneys have drafted legislation and regularly prepare opinions on nuanced wage and hour issues. Our attorneys have also successfully defended employers in complex wage and hour/FLSA class action and multi-plaintiff lawsuits through all stages of litigation, including jury trials and appeals.
In addition, LCW has extensive experience assisting employers to ensure that their policies and practices comply with wage and hour laws and best management practices through its audit services and preventative training. Our audit services draw on our wide experience from our successful representation of numerous employers in wage and hour litigation to provide practical recommendations to achieve compliance. Moreover, our attorneys regularly provide wage and hour preventative trainings for clients, and presentations on timely wage and hour issues at national and statewide conferences.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore specializes in representing employers in wage and hour actions. Our attorneys have successfully defended employers in complex wage and hour class action and multi-plaintiff lawsuits through all stages of litigation, including jury trials and appeals. We are proud of our success at the pre-trial stage. Our attorneys have obtained pre-certification dismissals, summary judgments, and defeated class certifications. LCW has also achieved success at the trial stage.
For more information on these services, please see our Litigation Service Practice page.
Liebert Cassidy Whitmore has extensive experience providing wage and hour audits to employers to ensure compliance with wage and hour laws and best management practices. Our audit services draw on our wide experience from our successful representation of numerous employers in wage and hour litigation. LCW utilizes a methodical, problem-solving approach to conduct audits. The audit process includes conducting a comprehensive investigation and analysis of written documents and actual practices within the organization and providing practical recommendations to achieve compliance. Our audit services can provide a comprehensive examination of all aspects of wage and hour compliance, or tailor the audit to specific departments, classifications or suspected compliance problems.
Thanks to our extensive expertise in wage and hour laws, our attorneys are able to recognize nuanced risks and provide practical and innovative solutions to help nonprofits with all of their wage and hour needs. Our counsel includes guidance on meal and rest break compliance, overtime rate calculations, proper classification of employees for exemption purposes, compliance with the ABC Test and independent contractor determinations, and management of vacation and paid time off policies.
We also advise nonprofits on the tax implications of compensation practices for both employers and employees, including payroll tax withholding obligations, reporting requirements, and the treatment of stipends, bonuses, and other forms of compensation. When payroll or classification errors occur, we assist organizations in assessing potential liability and implementing corrective measures designed to minimize penalties and mitigate exposure under wage and tax laws.
In addition, we routinely defend nonprofit clients against wage claims in court and before the California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement (Labor Commissioner) and the U.S. Department of Labor, and we provide strategic guidance in responding to agency audits, investigations, and related enforcement actions.
Our firm regularly presents training programs on compliance with wage and hour laws and has continuously done so since 1980. We provide specialized and customized trainings for clients on nuanced wage and hour issues. We also regularly provide wage and hour presentations at conferences, including:
We have also developed an FLSA audit workshop for our consortium clients, whose membership includes more than one hundred private schools throughout California.
To find presentations on these topics, please see our Training Calendar and our library of Webinars on Demand.
