About
Ms. Bien is an experienced litigator who has recovered millions of bucks in unpaid wages on behalf of her clients. She has represented tens of lots of workers throughout many distinctive industries in elegance and collective complaints. She was lead recommend in Glatt v. Fox Searchlight Pictures, Inc., one of the first cases to argue that interns ought to be paid for his or her paintings on behalf of a private organisation.
Ms. Bien is devoted to protecting workers’ rights beneath the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state and local wage legal guidelines. She has litigated and efficaciously settled many instances concerning employees who were “misclassified” by using their employers as “exempt” from beyond regular time protections or labeled as “impartial contractors” and denied additional time pay and different blessings. She has received motions against big agencies, and continuously advocates for interpretations of the law that improve the rights of all employees, inclusive of those who are maximum prone to abuse.
Ms. Bien is an energetic member of the employment regulation bar. She is a member of the State Bar of California’s Labor and Employment Law Section, the National Employment Lawyer’s Association (“NELA”) and its California chapter (“CELA”), and the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section. She speaks frequently on wage and hour topics.
She graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School in 2005 and served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Thomas G. Nelson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
(*Prior outcomes do not assure a comparable final results.)
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Graduation year: 2005
