EMPLOYMENT

The goal of Long & Levit's Employment Group is to allow our clients to focus on business - not on litigation. While our employment lawyers specialize in defending against harassment, discrimination and wrongful termination claims, we help our clients avoid litigation through counseling, seminars and employment practices audits. We create written employment policies and procedures designed not only to comply with the law but to maximize all available defenses. 

Long & Levit brings to its employment practice over 70 years of trial experience and a tradition of providing strategic, cost-effective legal services. We know how to defend a case aggressively and obtain excellent results, within our client's budget. 

We represent employers large and small across California with an emphasis on architecture and engineering firms, law firms, health care providers, and not-for-profit organizations. We defend our clients in state and federal court, in administrative proceedings before the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and in hearings before the California Labor Commission. And, whenever possible, we keep our clients out of litigation through the creative use of mediation and arbitration. 

Employment litigation is highly specialized and rapidly changing. Both state and federal law is in a state of flux. That is why Long & Levit provides its clients, and their insurers, with regular Employment Law Updates - brief analyses of what you need to know about the latest employment law cases from the state and federal courts. These Updates are also available on our website on the Employment Law Update Page. 

Our employment lawyers regularly write and speak on current issues. We are also currently working with the California Judicial Counsel to rewrite the California’s jury instructions relating to all manner of employment issues. 

We understand that employment litigation is highly emotional, distracting and can disrupt business, divert profits and damage morale. When employment claims arise, we know our clients want swift, practical and satisfying results. Long & Levit lets you focus on business – and not on litigation.