About
Kara M. Maciel is a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment and Litigation Practices in the firm's Washington, DC office. Ms. Maciel represents employers in labor and employment lawsuits arising under federal and state law, including Title VII, ADA, FMLA, FLSA, and the Department of Labor's EEO/AA regulations. Additionally, Ms. Maciel routinely defends employers and initiates proceedings against former employees for violating trade secret or confidential and proprietary information. Ms. Maciel specializes on issues related to the hospitality and health care industries and has represented employers including national hotel chains, hospitality management groups, restaurants, spas, trade associations, food and dairy distributors, hospitals, and health care providers. Click here for Kara's full biography.
Michael S. Kun is a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment practice and the National Chairperson of the firm's Wage and Hour and Collective Action Practice Group. He is engaged exclusively in the representation of management. Michael has litigated more than four dozen class actions in California, Georgia, and Maryland involving a variety of employment issues, including discrimination and wage-hour claims. He is also a published novelist and sportswriter. Click here for Michael's full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
Steven R. Blackburn is a Member of the Firm and managing partner of EBG's Labor and Employment practice in San Francisco. He has practiced employment law and wage and hour law for 25 years. Steve regularly advises employers on wage and hour compliance and he represents them in wage and hour litigation. He has represented employers in wage and hour matters in federal and state courts throughout the nation, and before the U.S. Department of Labor and the California Labor Commissioner. Click here for Steve’s full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
Kenneth W. DiGia is a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment practice in the firm's New York office. Ken regularly represents employers in the defense of putative collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and class actions under New York State Wage and Hour law. He litigates a variety of wage and hour issues, including the misclassification of exempt employees, compensation for hours worked, and the salary basis test. Click here for Ken’s full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
Jeffrey M. Landes is a Member of the Firm in the Labor and Employment practice in the New York office. Jeff counsels clients on wage and hour compliance; conducts wage and hour and human resource audits and workplace training sessions for employees and managers and human resources personnel on wage and hour issues, including pay practices and exempt/nonexempt classification issues; and represents employers in wage and hour audits before the U.S. Department of Labor and other federal and state administrative agencies. Jeff frequently lectures on wage and hour topics and contributes articles to professional journals. Click here for Jeff’s full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
Douglas Weiner is a Senior Trial Counsel in the Labor and Employment practice in the firm's New York office. Doug has 30 years of federal wage and hour litigation experience, and has litigated massive FLSA actions involving misclassified employees, prevailing wages on Government contracts, tip credit issues, unrecorded breaks and compensable working time, and salary and hourly back-wage calculations. He previously served as the Senior Trial Attorney at the U.S. Department of Labor’s New York Regional Solicitor’s Office, where he became the lead prosecutor in the Northeast region’s most significant wage and hour and whistleblower cases. Click here for Doug’s full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
Evan J. Spelfogel is a veteran Labor and Employment and Employee Benefits attorney. Based in New York, Evan counsels clients on all aspects of employment law and litigates FLSA and state wage and overtime issues, among others. He has written, edited, and published numerous articles, books and book chapters on a broad range of issues, including wage and hour collective actions, comparable worth, and pay equity. Evan previously served with the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of the Solicitor and the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., Boston, and New York. Click here for Evan’s full biography at the EpsteinBeckerGreen website.
