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    Michael R. Lindsay

    Partner


    • Los Angeles
    • Office213.629.6000
    • mlindsay@nixonpeabody.com
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    Introduction

    Michael Lindsay represents employers in all aspects of their labor and employment matters. He primarily handles all types of employment related litigation. Mike also advises major employers in all of their union related activities and defends those employers before the National Labor Relations Board.

    Practice Areas

    California Labor & EmploymentNP Trial®Labor & Employment LitigationArbitration, Mediation & Alternative Dispute ResolutionAffirmative Action & DiversityLabor & EmploymentLabor Relations

    Industries

    Healthcare Industry

    My focus

    I advise clients on labor matters, handle employment litigation and try cases whether in courts or before administrative agencies, primarily the National Labor Relations Board.

    Having been a labor and employment lawyer in Los Angeles for 30 years, I have handled just about every possible sort of employee/employer matter that could occur.

    Most recently, I have been advising Kaiser Permanente in connection with its various union related matters, which included the related hearings and unfair labor practice charges in the two largest union elections conducted by the NLRB since the 1930s.

    I work closely with a team of attorneys in Los Angeles and throughout the West Coast handling employment litigation for a number of clients large and small. Together we handle wage and hour class actions, single plaintiff employee litigation, discrimination and other employment claims of various sorts as well as trade secret litigation. We have developed efficient and proactive methods meeting all of our clients’ needs and desires in connection with these matters. My role is to serve as trial counsel and to provide strategic guidance and direction on these cases.

    Looking ahead

    Employment will always be of critical importance both in the workplace and in society as a whole. Importantly, we are in the midst of an enormous shift in workplaces across the country as the Baby Boom generation retires and steps away from the workplace leaving employers to adapt to the new generations of workers while trying to maintain productivity and the institutional knowledge base so critical to effective operations.

    Presentations

    • Speaker, “Legal Essentials for Life Sciences Entrepreneurs: What early-stage founders need to know to scale and safeguard their companies,” Biocom California's Capital Connect: Virtual Investor Roadshow, February 2022
    • Speaker, “Employment Issues,” LA BioStart Legal Basics Program, August 2018
    • Speaker, “Employment Issues,” LA BioStart Legal Basics Program, February 2018
    • Speaker, “Employment Issues: LA BioStart Legal Basics Program,” Los Angeles, CA, July 2017
    • Co-author, Trial Practice Series: Defense of Equal Employment Claims, 2d Edition, Wests Publishing Group, 2016

    Admitted to practice

    California
    District of Columbia

    Education

    Brigham Young University, B.A.
    J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University, J.D., cum laude, (Member, National Moot Court and Mock Trial Teams)
    University of Maryland

    Professional activities

    • American Bar Association; Los Angeles County Bar Association
    • Labor and Litigation Sections

    Recognition

    • Selected, through a peer-review survey, for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2023 in the fields of Employment Law—Management, Labor Law—Management, and Litigation—Labor and Employment; listed since 2016
    • Recognized as a 2020 Litigation Star by Benchmark Litigation (as well as in prior years); also recognized as a “Super Lawyer” by the publishers of Southern California Super Lawyers for 2013–2018; inclusion in Super Lawyers is based on a peer-review survey

    News Mentions

    • Law360

      Kaiser says union understaffing spat must go to arbitration

      This article covering Kaiser Permanente affiliates’ motion to dismiss a Colorado lawsuit over staffing shortages, saying the dispute should instead proceed to arbitration, mentions Los Angeles partner Michael Lindsay and associate Irene Scholl-Tatevosyan, of the Labor & Employment group, and Los Angeles Complex Disputes trial attorney Kristi Livedalen for representing Kaiser Permanente.
      Feb 3, 2022
    • Q Voice News

      San Diego Crunch Fitness pays settlement in trans discrimination case

      The following article covers the successful resolution of a long-running pro bono matter for which NP teamed with the ACLU to represent a transgender woman who was denied access to the women’s locker room at a gym in San Diego on more than 70 occasions. This denial of access clearly violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in public accommodations. After more than three years, the parties reached a fair settlement. The NP team working on this case includes Intellectual Property partner and Life Sciences practice co-chair Seth Levy, Labor & Employment partner Michael Lindsay, and alum Erin Holyoke, all of the Los Angeles office.
      Dec 9, 2021
    • Advocate

      Trans woman wins settlement in suit against California gym

      The following article covers the successful resolution of a long-running pro bono matter for which NP teamed with the ACLU to represent a transgender woman who was denied access to the women’s locker room at a gym in San Diego on more than 70 occasions. This denial of access clearly violated California’s Unruh Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination in public accommodations. After more than three years, the parties reached a fair settlement. The NP team working on this case includes Intellectual Property partner and Life Sciences practice co-chair Seth Levy, Labor & Employment partner Michael Lindsay, and alum Erin Holyoke, all of the Los Angeles office.
      Dec 9, 2021

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