Rick Reyes

Rick Reyes focuses his practice solely on management-side employment litigation and advice and counseling.

He has experience in all aspects of litigation, from pre-litigation negotiations to the early stages of litigation (including risk and liability assessments and drafting dispositive motions), discovery, trial, and appellate work in both California and New York.

Rick has successfully represented small, medium, and large employers in claims relating to:

• Single-plaintiff and representative actions (including FLSA collective actions, class actions and PAGA cases) alleging wage and hour violations under state and federal law
• Discrimination, harassment, and retaliation under state and federal law
• Workplace health and safety violations
• Restrictive covenants

Additionally, Rick advises and counsels employers on numerous labor and employment issues to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws and regulations. Similarly, he assists and guides clients on best practices relating to human resources, including onboarding and hiring, employee discipline, leaves of absence, and terminations (including mass layoffs, furloughs, etc.). Rick has also assisted clients with transactional work including developing employee handbooks, executive compensation agreements, employment agreements, severance agreements, and other employment-type policies, such as reimbursement policies, and meal and rest period policies, to meet the needs of each specific client and industry.

In law school, Rick served as the chief managing editor of the UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law and the co-chair of UCLA’s Latinx Law Students Association. He also interned for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and served as a summer law clerk at a boutique employment defense firm where he gained invaluable experience in servicing clients in the hospitality industry.