Jeffrey S. Sloan

Jeffrey represents high-level executives, professionals, and businesses of all types and sizes in complex labor, employment, and HR matters.  In his litigation practice, Jeffrey appears before state and federal courts, the California Labor Commissioner, and private arbitrators and mediators in single- and multi-plaintiff cases involving wage and hour, PAGA, wrongful termination, breach of contract, employee privacy, Equal Pay Act, retaliation/whistleblower, and discrimination and harassment claims.  In his advice-and-counsel practice, Jeffrey provides daily guidance to clients across California on all areas of HR and employment law, from creating compliant HR infrastructures to drafting executive employment agreements to advising on difficult employee disability and discipline/termination issues to conducting sensitive executive severance negotiations.Jeffrey is the Managing Shareholder of Workplace Legal, APLC.  Prior to founding Workplace Legal, Jeffrey was an Equity Partner at the international law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP where he was a member of the Labor & Employment Law Group. Prior to that, Jeffrey was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Sloan Pratt LLP, a labor and employment law boutique in San Francisco, and an Associate Attorney in the international law firm Heller Ehrman LLP’s litigation practice.Jeffrey holds the most prestigious “AV Preeminent” peer-review ranking in labor and employment law from Martindale, a "Best Lawyers" selection in the field of employment litigation, and many other national awards and recognitions.  A frequent author and speaker on HR and employment law issues, Jeffrey has appeared in numerous publications and has presented before trade groups, conferences, professional associations, and corporations.Jeffrey is a member of the California State Bar licensed to appear before the California Supreme Court and all state and federal courts in California.  He is also a member of the State Bar of New York and the Washington, DC Bar.  Jeffrey is a graduate of Stanford University (A.B.), UCLA School of Law (J.D.), and Cornell University (M.M.H.).