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Employment law continues to evolve at a rapid pace—and 2025 was no exception. This engaging session will highlight the most influential appellate decisions of the year from the U.S. and California Supreme Courts, the Ninth Circuit, and California Courts of Appeal, and unpack their practical implications for practitioners.
Anthony J. Oncidi is an Employment, Trade Secrets, Non-compete Law Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP. He is also the co-chair of the Labor & Employment Law Department and heads the West Coast Labor & Employment group in the firm’s Los Angeles office.
Tony represents employers and management in all aspects of labor relations and employment law, including litigation and preventive counseling, wage and hour matters, including class actions, wrongful termination, employee discipline, Title VII and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, executive employment contract disputes, sexual harassment training and investigations, workplace violence, drug testing and privacy issues, Sarbanes-Oxley claims and employee raiding and trade secret protection. A substantial portion of Tony’s practice involves the defense of employers in large class actions, employment = discrimination, harassment and wrongful termination litigation in state and federal court as well as arbitration proceedings, including FINRA matters.
Tony is recognized as a leading lawyer by such highly respected publications and organizations as the Los Angeles Daily Journal, The Hollywood Reporter, and Chambers USA, which gives him the highest possible rating (“Band 1”) for Labor & Employment.
Andrew H. Friedman, a name partner with the law firm of Helmer Friedman LLP, primarily represents employees in all aspects of employment law. Mr. Friedman has handled a wide range of employment-related litigation in state and federal courts. Indeed, Mr. Friedman recently won (with Courtney Abrams of Courtney Abrams, PC and lead trial counsel David deRubertis of The deRubertis Law Firm, APC) a $6 Million jury verdict in a gender discrimination, harassment, and retaliation lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court. Mr. Friedman also won (with Tony Lewis of The Lewis Law Firm) a $4.1 Million jury verdict in a fraud and breach of employment contract lawsuit in the Los Angeles Superior Court. He also prevailed (along with his law partner, Gregory D. Helmer) in a three-week sexual harassment jury trial in the Orange County Superior Court. Mr. Friedman has received the highest possible Martindale-Hubble, indicating that he is ranked at the highest level of professional excellence with “very high to preeminent legal ability” and “very high” ethical standards as established by confidential opinions from members of the Bar. For multiple years, Chambers USA, the Nation’s leading legal data and analytics provider, has awarded Mr. Friedman with its highest possible rating (“Band 1”) for Labor & Employment. Super Lawyers has selected Mr. Friedman as a Southern California “Super Lawyer” in the category of Labor and Employment Law each year from 2006-2025. Additionally, since 2020, out of more than 70,000 attorneys in the Southern California area, Super Lawyers has named Mr. Friedman to its list of the Top 100 Super Lawyers in Southern California.
Mr. Friedman is a prolific author of employment law related books and articles. Mr. Friedman is the author of one of the Nation’s leading employment law treatises – Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases (James Publishing 2005 – 2025) – https://jamespublishing.com/product/litigating-employment-discrimination-cases/. Mr. Friedman also recently wrote a law review article predicting the demise of the infamous McDonnell Douglas burden-shifting test as frequently used on summary judgment in discrimination and retaliation cases. See Andrew H. Friedman, McDonnell Douglas: The End Is Near?, Cal. Lab. & Emp. L. R. Vol. 39, No. 5 (September 2025).
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