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Claire M. Lesikar

Associate

Claire M. Lesikar represents companies in employment matters that include individual and class action litigation. Her work involves complex wage and hour class actions, representative actions brought under California’s Private Attorneys General Act, workplace discrimination and retaliation, wrongful termination, family and medical leave, employment-related torts, cybersecurity, and data privacy. In addition, Claire handles employment-related aspects of mergers and acquisitions.

Extended Profile

Claire serves on the firm’s Cybersecurity Initiative and Pro Bono Committee. While in law school, Claire served as the executive articles editor of the Hastings Law Journal and as a judicial extern for Judge Jon S. Tigar of the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Also while at Hastings, Claire competed in the National Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Competition.

Education

  • University of California, Hastings College of the Law, 2016, J.D., magna cum laude
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, 2011, B.A., Politics, cum laude

Admissions

  • California
  • US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Southern District of California
  • US District Court for the Central District of California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California

Awards and Affiliations

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Labor & Employment, Law360 (2017)

Member, Thurston Honors Society

Member, UC Hastings Honor Society

Publications

7/30/2018 - California Supreme Court Holds That Employees Must Be Paid for Routinely Worked Minutes Off the Clock

April 2017 - Another Chapter in Tibble v. Edison International – Ninth Circuit’s En Banc Decision, CA Labor & Employment Bulletin

2015 - Organized Common Sense: Some Lessons from Judge Jack Weinstein’s Uncommonly Sensible Approach to Expert Evidence, DePaul Law Review Vol. 64, Issue 2