Andrew Paley is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department in Seyfarth Shaw’s Los Angeles office.  Mr. Paley’s practice focuses on defending employers in complex collective and class action litigations.  Mr. Paley is co-chair of the firm’s Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Department Steering Committee.

Mr. Paley has litigated numerous class and collective actions for alleged wage and hour violations under both state and federal law for clients in the financial services, retail, hospitality, telecommunications, automobile, and insurance industries.  These cases include claims alleging misclassification of employees as exempt or as independent contractors; “off-the-clock” and regular rate violations; denied reimbursements; miscalculation of commissions and bonuses; failure to pay prevailing wages; and meal/rest break violations.  Mr. Paley’s experience includes the defense of large nationwide collective actions and multi-district litigations.  He also advises clients on conducting pre-litigation wage and hour audits.

Mr. Paley is one of three authors of the definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation, Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, and has written and lectured on numerous employment law topics.  Mr. Paley also has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford, Pepperdine, and Southwestern law schools.  Mr. Paley is the architect of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s widely publicized innovative gang injunction program which has resulted in a dramatic decrease in gang activity in various Southern California communities through the use of civil injunctions.  He has been honored by the City of Pasadena and has received the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Courageous Citizen Award for his pro bono efforts in combating gang violence. 

Andrew Paley is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department in Seyfarth Shaw’s Los Angeles office.  Mr. Paley’s practice focuses on defending employers in complex collective and class action litigations.  Mr. Paley is co-chair of the firm’s Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group, and a member of the firm’s Labor and Employment Department Steering Committee.

Mr. Paley has litigated numerous class and collective actions for alleged wage and hour violations under both state and federal law for clients in the financial services, retail, hospitality, telecommunications, automobile, and insurance industries.  These cases include claims alleging misclassification of employees as exempt or as independent contractors; “off-the-clock” and regular rate violations; denied reimbursements; miscalculation of commissions and bonuses; failure to pay prevailing wages; and meal/rest break violations.  Mr. Paley’s experience includes the defense of large nationwide collective actions and multi-district litigations.  He also advises clients on conducting pre-litigation wage and hour audits.

Mr. Paley is one of three authors of the definitive treatise on wage and hour litigation, Wage & Hour Collective and Class Litigation, and has written and lectured on numerous employment law topics.  Mr. Paley also has been a guest lecturer at the Stanford, Pepperdine, and Southwestern law schools.  Mr. Paley is the architect of the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office’s widely publicized innovative gang injunction program which has resulted in a dramatic decrease in gang activity in various Southern California communities through the use of civil injunctions.  He has been honored by the City of Pasadena and has received the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Courageous Citizen Award for his pro bono efforts in combating gang violence.