Colleen M. Regan

Ms. Regan is a partner in the Labor & Employment Department in the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. She is one of the founding members of Seyfarth’s California Workplace Solutions group, and provides counseling and best practices advice on a range of California-specific employment law issues. She is also Co-Founder of the California Peculiarities Employment Law Blog.

Ms. Regan’s practice is a combination of litigation defense and counseling. On the litigation side, she focuses on defense of employers in wage and hour class actions and single plaintiff employment-related litigation of all kinds. She has handled class litigation matters in a number of industries, including manufacturing, retail, and gaming. She has tried numerous single-plaintiff cases in state and federal courts, ranging from wage claims to suits for sexual harassment and retaliation.

Ms. Regan’s employment counseling practice concerns a variety of workplace issues and litigation avoidance strategies, including compliance with California and federal anti-discrimination, anti-harassment and mandated leave laws, record-keeping requirements, recruitment and hiring, wage-hour, employee classification, alternative workforce arrangements, compensation plans, terminations, and other human resources practices, as well as negotiating and documenting employment and severance agreements.

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Areas of Practice 1) Workplace Policies and Handbooks, 2) Workplace Counseling & Solutions, 3) Wage & Hour Litigation, 4) Labor & Employment, 5) Hiring, 6) Testing & Selection, 7) Employment Litigation, 8) Complex Discrimination Litigation and 9) California Workplace Solutions
Law School Loyola Law School, Los Angeles (J.D., 1985)
Education St. John's College (B.A., 1978)
Bar Member / Association California State Bar Association
Most recent firm Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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