Matthew Golper

Matt Golper serves as a trusted advisor, litigator, and business partner to employers of all sizes, ranging from startups to Fortune 500 businesses. Matt's litigation practice is focused on providing employers with aggressive but goal-oriented representation in class, collective and PAGA representative wage and hour actions. His litigation practice experience also includes defending employers in background check class actions, and in discrimination, harassment, retaliation, breach of contract, and wrongful termination actions. He has successfully defended employers in state and federal court, in arbitration (including in mass wage and hour arbitrations), and before various state and federal agencies. Drawing on his litigation experience and a deep understanding of the ever-evolving California employment law landscape, Matt also serves in an advisor role to human resources personnel, management, and in-house attorneys in the development of strategic risk-mitigating personnel practices and procedures. He regularly provides advice and counsel to employers on day-to-day employee relations issues and related-compliance, including recruiting, hiring and compensation; employee discipline, performance management and terminations; leave law compliance; complaint investigation; and wage and hour compliance. Matt's experience includes developing training materials and providing training on employment law issues (anti-harassment, EEO and wage and hour) to management and Human Resources professionals; developing human resources practices from the ground up for startup entities; and conducting comprehensive wage and hour-related audits. Matt also drafts and reviews employee handbooks and related policies, employment and independent contractor agreements, separation agreements/releases, and commission/incentive compensation agreements.