Leo Q.Li
Partner
Labor & Employment
lli@seyfarth.com
More About Leo
Leo focuses his practice on wage & hour class action and collective action litigation, employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, misclassification, breach of contract, disability, reasonable accommodation and access issues, and unfair business practice litigation under California Business & Professions Code Section 17200 in both state and federal court.
Leo has successfully defeated class certification and obtained summary judgment in several wage and hour class action cases. Leo has also negotiated and obtained several favorable settlements in both class action and single plaintiff litigations.
Leo has successfully defended both domestic and foreign employers in a wide array of industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution and manufacturing logistics, education, insurance, aerospace, retail, restaurant, natural resources, and professional environmental services.
Leo also has assisted companies in large employment-related transactions such as wage and hour compliance audits, DLSE audits and investigations, and contract negotiations, as well as advising employers with respect to employment policies and employee handbooks.
Leo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Leo has successfully defeated class certification and obtained summary judgment in several wage and hour class action cases. Leo has also negotiated and obtained several favorable settlements in both class action and single plaintiff litigations.
Leo has successfully defended both domestic and foreign employers in a wide array of industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution and manufacturing logistics, education, insurance, aerospace, retail, restaurant, natural resources, and professional environmental services.
Leo also has assisted companies in large employment-related transactions such as wage and hour compliance audits, DLSE audits and investigations, and contract negotiations, as well as advising employers with respect to employment policies and employee handbooks.
Leo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
- JD, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
Sayre Macneil Scholar
Loyola Jesuit Community Scholar
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association Scholar
Extern to Hon. Dolly M. Gee, US District Court For the Central District Of California - BA, University of California, Berkeley
- California
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
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More About Leo
Leo focuses his practice on wage & hour class action and collective action litigation, employment discrimination, retaliation, harassment, wrongful termination, misclassification, breach of contract, disability, reasonable accommodation and access issues, and unfair business practice litigation under California Business & Professions Code Section 17200 in both state and federal court.
Leo has successfully defeated class certification and obtained summary judgment in several wage and hour class action cases. Leo has also negotiated and obtained several favorable settlements in both class action and single plaintiff litigations.
Leo has successfully defended both domestic and foreign employers in a wide array of industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution and manufacturing logistics, education, insurance, aerospace, retail, restaurant, natural resources, and professional environmental services.
Leo also has assisted companies in large employment-related transactions such as wage and hour compliance audits, DLSE audits and investigations, and contract negotiations, as well as advising employers with respect to employment policies and employee handbooks.
Leo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Leo has successfully defeated class certification and obtained summary judgment in several wage and hour class action cases. Leo has also negotiated and obtained several favorable settlements in both class action and single plaintiff litigations.
Leo has successfully defended both domestic and foreign employers in a wide array of industries, including industrial manufacturing, distribution and manufacturing logistics, education, insurance, aerospace, retail, restaurant, natural resources, and professional environmental services.
Leo also has assisted companies in large employment-related transactions such as wage and hour compliance audits, DLSE audits and investigations, and contract negotiations, as well as advising employers with respect to employment policies and employee handbooks.
Leo is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
- JD, Loyola Law School - Los Angeles
Editor, Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review
Sayre Macneil Scholar
Loyola Jesuit Community Scholar
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association Scholar
Extern to Hon. Dolly M. Gee, US District Court For the Central District Of California - BA, University of California, Berkeley
- California
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
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Aug 18, 2022
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Aug 3, 2022
Seyfarth’s Leo Li Named to Daily Journal’s 2022 List of “Top 40 Under 40 Lawyers”
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Labor and Employment Law - Management (2022-2024)
- State Bar of California (Labor and Employment Section)
- Co-Editors, Litigating CA Wage & Hour Class and PAGA Actions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 23rd Edition (2024)
- Co-Editor, Litigating California Wage & Hour Class and PAGA Actions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 22nd Edition (2022)
- Editor, Litigating California Wage & Hour and Labor Code Class Actions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 19th Edition (2019)
- Co-Author, "Request for Employment Records? Don’t Trust; Verify!," California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 16, 2019)
- Editor, Litigating California Wage & Hour and Labor Code Class Actions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP, 18th Edition (2018)
- Co-Author, "Unlikely Ally: Employer Makes a Meal Out of CBA Waiver," Management Alert, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (August 16, 2018)
- Co-Editor, Litigating California Wage & Hour and Labor Code Class Actions, 12th - 15th Editions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (2012-2015)
- Co-Author, "Ninth Circuit Steals a PAGe from California Courts' Playbook," One Minute Memo, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 5, 2015)
- Co-Author, "Ninth Circuit Rules That 'If You Want FMLA Leave, You Had Better Request It,'" One Minute Memo, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (March 3, 2014)
- Co-Author, "California Court Takes the 'Sex' Out of Sexual Harassment," One Minute Memo, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 21, 2014)
- Co-Author, "Off-Duty Trip for Yoga and Yogurt Creates Tort Liability for Employer," One Minute Memo, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 2, 2013)
- “A New Hope: Encino Motorcars v. Navarro Ushers in a New Era for Construing FLSA Exemptions” Seyfarth Shaw LLP, National Wage and Hour Litigation Practice Group Meeting (April 18, 2018)
- "California Wage and Hour Issues: What You Need to Know For 2017," Webinar, presented by Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 7, 2016)