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Seth Neulight is a dedicated labor and employment attorney with over 25 years of experience serving employers and senior executives. Seth provides practical, business-oriented advice on matters such as workforce restructurings, layoffs, restrictive covenants, wage-hour law compliance, leaves of absence, and mergers and acquisitions.
I defend employers in complex wage-hour and discrimination class, collective, and representative actions. I have served as lead defense counsel in hundreds of single- and multi-plaintiff lawsuits in California state and federal courts and government agencies. I have significant experience with employment discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, harassment, trade secret misappropriation, and wrongful termination claims. I have litigated cases under laws such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Defend Trade Secrets Act (DTSA) of 2016, and California laws including the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), Labor Code, Uniform Trade Secrets Act (CUTSA), and the Unfair Competition Law (UCL).
I help clients respond to union organizing campaigns, provide union avoidance training, and negotiate collective bargaining agreements. I defend clients in grievance arbitrations and unfair labor practice charges before the National Labor Relations Board.
I help clients navigate difficult employment issues such as leave obligations, disability accommodation, employment terminations, and reductions-in-force. I negotiate and draft executive employment contracts, incentive compensation plans, nondisclosure and invention assignment agreements, and separation agreements. I regularly speak on employment law developments, trends, and best practices for workforce management.
Employers will increasingly rely on AI tools to expand and improve their recruiting, onboarding, and performance management processes and decision-making. Yet, AI also presents risks for employers. The algorithms contain biases that may produce false or misleading information, giving rise to claims of discrimination or defamation. Employees’ use of AI to create work product raises concerns about invasion of privacy, intellectual property infringement, and ethical conflicts.
This article mentions NP for advising Resilinc Corp. in its strategic growth investment transaction with Vista Equity Partners LLC. The NP team was led by San Francisco Cybersecurity & Privacy partner Greg O’Hara and included Corporate partners David Martland, Thomas McCord, and Alexandra Lopez-Casero of Boston, Rachel Pugliese of New York City, and Shahzad Malik of Los Angeles; San Francisco Labor & Employment partner Seth Neulight; Cybersecurity & Privacy counsels Jenny Holmes of Rochester and Jason Kunze of Chicago; Boston Corporate counsel David Crosby; Chicago Intellectual Property counsel Wayne Tang; and Corporate associates James Mangan from Boston, Jacalyn Smith from Chicago, Corey Habib from Manchester, and Brian Kenney of Washington, DC.
This article mentions San Francisco Cybersecurity & Privacy partner Greg O’Hara for leading the NP team advising Resilinc Corp. in its strategic growth investment transaction with Vista Equity Partners LLC. The NP team also included Corporate partners David Martland, Thomas McCord, and Alexandra Lopez-Casero of Boston, Rachel Pugliese of New York City, and Shahzad Malik of Los Angeles; San Francisco Labor & Employment partner Seth Neulight; Cybersecurity & Privacy counsels Jenny Holmes of Rochester and Jason Kunze of Chicago; Boston Corporate counsel David Crosby; Chicago Intellectual Property counsel Wayne Tang; and Corporate associates James Mangan from Boston, Jacalyn Smith from Chicago, Corey Habib from Manchester, and Brian Kenney of Washington, DC.
This article covering Trinity Hunt Partners’ majority investment in life sciences digital marketing agency Supreme Optimization mentions Los Angeles Corporate partner Mike Lawhead for leading the NP team representing Supreme in the transaction. The NP team also included Corporate partners Christian Hancey of Rochester, Shahzad Malik of Los Angeles, and Andrew Share of Manchester; San Francisco Labor & Employment partner Seth Neulight; Corporate associates Brian Kenney from Washington, DC and Jacalyn Smith from Chicago; and Los Angeles senior paralegal Mina Gonzaque-Taylor and Chicago paralegal Astrid McGruder, both of the Corporate practice.
This article covering Trinity Hunt Partners’ majority investment in life sciences digital marketing agency Supreme Optimization mentions NP for serving as Supreme’s legal advisor in the deal. Los Angeles Corporate partner Michael Lawhead led the NP deal team, which also included Corporate partners Christian Hancey of Rochester, Shahzad Malik of Los Angeles, and Andrew Share of Manchester; San Francisco Labor & Employment partner Seth Neulight; Corporate associates Jacalyn Smith of Chicago and Brian Kenney of Washington, DC; and Los Angeles senior paralegal Mina Gonzaque-Taylor and Chicago paralegal Astrid McGruder, both of the Corporate practice.
San Francisco labor and employment partner Seth Neulight is quoted in this article about summer dress code policies.
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DePaul University College of Law, J.D., (Editor, DePaul Law Review)
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