Liz K.Bertko
Counsel
Labor & Employment
lbertko@seyfarth.com
Liz partners with clients to come up with practical solutions that minimize risk and avoid costly litigation. She strategically manages single plaintiff and class action matters to promote efficiency and swift resolution.
More About Liz
Liz’s practice focuses on counseling employers regarding all areas of labor and employment law, including employment policies and practices, wage and hour compliance, family and medical leave issues, employee investigations, disability accommodation, reductions-in-force, and employee privacy rights. She assists clients with internal investigations and audits concerning wage and hour issues. Liz also has over ten years of experience as a litigator handling single plaintiff cases, class actions, and administrative matters.
Liz’s background as a litigator gives her unique perspective into the challenges and legal pitfalls employers face. She has represented employers in over fifty wage and hour class actions, including actions involving allegations of joint employment, unpaid overtime, off the clock work, exemption misclassification, failure to provide suitable seating, missed meal and rest breaks, unreimbursed business expenses and time shaving. She has also represented employers in single plaintiff discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and unfair competition disputes. This experience informs her litigation practice as well as her counseling and advice work as she helps employers navigate complex personnel issues.
Liz enjoys learning about a client’s business needs and concerns. She also enjoys the challenges of negotiating with opposing counsel to resolve disputes.
Liz’s background as a litigator gives her unique perspective into the challenges and legal pitfalls employers face. She has represented employers in over fifty wage and hour class actions, including actions involving allegations of joint employment, unpaid overtime, off the clock work, exemption misclassification, failure to provide suitable seating, missed meal and rest breaks, unreimbursed business expenses and time shaving. She has also represented employers in single plaintiff discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and unfair competition disputes. This experience informs her litigation practice as well as her counseling and advice work as she helps employers navigate complex personnel issues.
Liz enjoys learning about a client’s business needs and concerns. She also enjoys the challenges of negotiating with opposing counsel to resolve disputes.
- JD, UCLA School of Law
UCLA Law Review, managing editor - BA, Dartmouth College
English
Presidential Scholar
- California
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
- US District Court, Southern District of California
- California Supreme Court
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Liz partners with clients to come up with practical solutions that minimize risk and avoid costly litigation. She strategically manages single plaintiff and class action matters to promote efficiency and swift resolution.
More About Liz
Liz’s practice focuses on counseling employers regarding all areas of labor and employment law, including employment policies and practices, wage and hour compliance, family and medical leave issues, employee investigations, disability accommodation, reductions-in-force, and employee privacy rights. She assists clients with internal investigations and audits concerning wage and hour issues. Liz also has over ten years of experience as a litigator handling single plaintiff cases, class actions, and administrative matters.
Liz’s background as a litigator gives her unique perspective into the challenges and legal pitfalls employers face. She has represented employers in over fifty wage and hour class actions, including actions involving allegations of joint employment, unpaid overtime, off the clock work, exemption misclassification, failure to provide suitable seating, missed meal and rest breaks, unreimbursed business expenses and time shaving. She has also represented employers in single plaintiff discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and unfair competition disputes. This experience informs her litigation practice as well as her counseling and advice work as she helps employers navigate complex personnel issues.
Liz enjoys learning about a client’s business needs and concerns. She also enjoys the challenges of negotiating with opposing counsel to resolve disputes.
Liz’s background as a litigator gives her unique perspective into the challenges and legal pitfalls employers face. She has represented employers in over fifty wage and hour class actions, including actions involving allegations of joint employment, unpaid overtime, off the clock work, exemption misclassification, failure to provide suitable seating, missed meal and rest breaks, unreimbursed business expenses and time shaving. She has also represented employers in single plaintiff discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and unfair competition disputes. This experience informs her litigation practice as well as her counseling and advice work as she helps employers navigate complex personnel issues.
Liz enjoys learning about a client’s business needs and concerns. She also enjoys the challenges of negotiating with opposing counsel to resolve disputes.
- JD, UCLA School of Law
UCLA Law Review, managing editor - BA, Dartmouth College
English
Presidential Scholar
- California
- US District Court, Central District of California
- US District Court, Eastern District of California
- US District Court, Northern District of California
- US District Court, Southern District of California
- California Supreme Court