Zachary W. Shine

Associate

Zack Shine provides guidance to employers on all employment law needs, including wage and hour compliance, worker and independent contractor classifications, performance management, disability accommodations, leaves of absence, employee mobility, workplace restructuring, compensation arrangements, and strategic hiring and separations. He defends employers in wage and hour class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) representative actions, and all types of individual claims, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of contract, and restrictive covenants.

A significant portion of Zack’s practice involves counseling clients on employment matters in mergers, acquisitions, investments, and other major domestic and international corporate transactions. Zack also regularly helps clients with complex issues related to use of artificial intelligence in employment, including navigating the increasingly intricate patchwork of federal, state, and local AI laws and guidelines. He also works closely with in-house counsel and client business teams to develop and implement incentive compensation plans that meet their business and legal objectives.

Zack regularly represents clients in a wide array of industries, including technology, media, entertainment, sports, hospitality, ecommerce, life sciences, transportation, and financial services. Using his experience as a litigator, Zack drafts, revises, and assists clients with executive employment agreements, policies, on- and off-boarding documentation, severance and separation packages, warning and discipline documentation, workforce communications, human resources audits, strategic policy implementation, and internal investigations.

Zack is committed to the firm’s pro bono program, diversity and inclusion efforts, and mentoring young lawyers.

Pepperdine University School of Law, 2010, J.D.
University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005, B.A., history, with honors

California
US District Court for the Eastern District of California
US District Court for the Northern District of California
US District Court for the Central District of California

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Litigation - Labor and Employment, San Francisco (2022–2025)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Employment, Law360 (2017, 2019)

National Champion, ABA Labor & Employment National Trial Advocacy Competition (2010)