Challenge to President Trump’s scheme to charge $100,000 per month for advance access to official government announcements on Truth Social, alleging the scheme is unconstitutional.

Representing federal employee labor unions and nonprofit organizations to challenge reorganization and mass terminations of federal employees by Trump administration.

Representing federal employee unions in challenge to Trump administration attempts to engage in mass terminations of federal employees during the federal government shutdown.

Challenge to Trump administration’s abuse of its power over civil rights enforcement and federal grantmaking authority to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funds in an effort to coerce the University of California to agree to implement policies that would suppress speech and implement other ideological demands.

Co-lead counsel in MDL class action on behalf of 109,000 California unemployment insurance benefits claimants who allege that the bank violated their statutory, contractual, and constitutional rights during the pandemic by baselessly denying class members’ claims that fraudsters had wrongfully stolen money from their UI accounts and by freezing those class members’ account access. Court issued a preliminary injunction in June 2021, certified five classes in 2025, and denied in principal part the bank’s summary judgment and Daubert motions in August 2026.

Represent a proposed class of approximately 12,000 female employees of Apple on claims that Apple paid women less than men for substantially similar work and used prior pay and pay expectations to set starting salary level, which led to a disparate impact adverse to women.

Challenge to an Executive Order that strips collective bargaining rights from about two-thirds of all federal workers.

Federal lawsuit challenging OPM’s directive to other federal agencies to summarily terminate their probationary employees on the pretextual ground of unsatisfactory performance.

Representation of United Farm Workers of America in defending constitutional challenges to provisions of the Calfornia Agricultural Labor Relations Act that provide for interest arbitration to resolve contract disputes and that allow workers to choose union representation through a majority sign up procedure.

PAGA representative action on behalf of Amazon Flex driver who contends that her individual arbitration award establishing Amazon’s willful misclassification of drivers in California has issue-preclusive effect on the non-individual representative component of her state court PAGA claim.

Federal class action lawsuit brought by currently and formerly incarcerated individuals, labor unions, and a nonprofit challenging forced-labor and parole practices in Alabama under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, Ex Post Facto and Equal Protection Clauses, Alabama’s constitution, and other laws.

Doe v. Pat; Krieger v. Banks; and others. Defense of numerous federal cases across the country that challenge public employee collective bargaining, including the use of exclusive representative bargaining systems and the collection of union dues through payroll deduction, after the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME Council 31.

Representation of union in District of Columbia Circuit appeal of NLRB ruling in favor of janitorial service workers who had been fired for protesting sex harassment and low wages.

Representation of California public entities in climate-change litigation seeking to hold major oil and gas companies responsible under state public nuisance law for harms to public infrastructure resulting from alleged half-century campaign of deception concerning the global warming impacts of fossil-fuel combustion.

Appeal of Superior Court’s denial of writ of mandate to prevent local authorities from permitting a private prison company to begin housing ICE detainees.

Representing, with co-counsel, proposed classes of persons who took pregnancy or parental leave alleging that Deloitte penalized them for taking leave by giving them lower performance review scores and lower compensation.

Representing, with co-counsel, a proposed class of more than 4,300 women employed by Edward Jones as home office workers alleging that Edward Jones assigned women to lower salary levels and gave them lower starting salaries based on lower prior pay and pay expectations.

Proposed class and PAGA representative actions brought on behalf of travel nurses alleging (1) underpayment of overtime compensation and missed meal premiums because stipends were not included in the calculation of the regular rate of pay; and (2) bait and switch mid-contract reductions in promised pay.

PAGA representative action brought on behalf of Subway workers alleging they were paid with checks that bounced.

Putative class action alleging that USC falsely advertised its online Master of Social Work program as the same as its in-person program, when it was not.

Proposed class action seeking to hold McDonald’s responsible for failing to protect employees from sexual harassment at 100 corporate-owned restaurants in Florida.

Proposed class action on behalf of female students challenging alleged violations of university’s Title IX obligations to provide equal treatment and benefits and equal athletic financial aid to female and male college athletes, and equal athletic participation opportunities to female and male students.

Challenge to Florida law prohibiting teachers from using pronouns that differ from their gender as assigned at birth. On August 13, 2025 obtained order granting motion for summary judgment as a matter of law finding that the FL violated Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Representation of union in defending constitutional challenges to Minnesota’s Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board, a tripartite board that sets minimum employment standards for nursing home workers.

On behalf of national consumer organization, challenge under consumer fraud statute to Starbucks’ representations that it ethically sources its coffee beans and tea leaves.

Antitrust class action, now on appeal, challenging anti-competitive agreements among hockey leagues that subject teenage professional hockey players to involuntary territorial-based drafts, long-term form contracts, and other restrictions on job mobility, making them uniquely susceptible to exploitation by the defendant leagues and clubs.

Defense on appeal of a federal court order denying a motion for relief from judgment finding school board members’ policy and practice of school-sponsored prayer and proselytizing at public school board meetings violated the Establishment Clause.

Federal district court lawsuit on behalf of a coalition of fishing and conservation groups challenging the Trump Administration’s 2019 Endangered Species Act permits (known as biological opinions) for the operations of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project in California.

Obtained preliminary approval of $13 million settlement of ERISA class action on behalf of 200+ terminated employees, nearly all of whom had signed broad claims releases in exchange for payments of tens of thousands of dollars each, who alleged that defendant fiduciary wrongfully refused to pay full amount of severance benefits required by predecessor company’s ERISA plan; settlement provides each class member more than 100% of their unpaid severance.

Federal court class action under ERISA for charging allegedly excessive fees for administrative and marketing services for health insurance and retirement plans.

Won unanimous California Supreme Court decision holding that Private Attorney General Act plaintiffs who are compelled to arbitrate the individual component of their representative action claims do not thereby lose standing to pursue in court the non-individual component of their claims on behalf of co-workers and the State.

Class action on behalf of community college adjunct professors alleging violations of California minimum wage law.

Ninth Circuit appeal from summary judgment order in favor of defendant municipality and police officers in challenge to unlawful and violent arrests of unarmed African-American citizens following non-violent traffic stop.

Co-counsel for plaintiffs on pending appeals, writ petitions, and certain pre-trial matters on behalf of thousands of Black employees at Tesla manufacturing facility who allege race harassment in violation of California anti-discrimination law.

Co-counsel on post-trial and appellate proceedings for five whistleblowers who obtained $52 million compensatory and punitive damages jury verdict for unlawful retaliation and wrongful termination.

Representation of a labor union in defense of speech and petitioning activity alleged to violate federal labor, antitrust, and RICO laws and state common law.

Federal court action challenging the Trump Administration’s rescission and modification (after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that rescission unlawful) of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (“DACA”) program on constitutional, statutory, and equitable grounds.

Appeal on behalf of former City Manager from summary judgment order denying claim of whistleblower retaliation and breach of contract after City refused to renew his employment contract after he complained about wrongful conduct by Mayor and City Council member.

Representation of City of Oakland in breach of contract actions and business tort defense between the City of Oakland, the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal, and California Investment Group regarding a dispute over the development of a bulk goods terminal on City land that the developer wanted to use to ship coal.

Amicus brief in U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of Former EPA Administrators, Officials, and Senior Career Staff demonstrating, in climate-deception case against oil and gas company defendants, why Clean Air Act does not preempt local government’s state common law and statutory claims.

Representing the plaintiff in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against a developer that reneged on an agreement to donate funds to a nonprofit organization.