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Sehreen Ladak is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department. She represents clients in a wide range of employment matters, including state and federal litigation, arbitration, and class actions on wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims. Sehreen has experience managing every aspect of litigation, including taking and defending depositions, arguing discovery and dispositive motions, and leading trials and labor arbitrations.

Sehreen also advises clients on various employment issues, including wage and hour compliance, onboarding procedures, employment and separation agreements, handbooks, and workplace accommodations.

In addition, Sehreen has experience in evaluating labor and employment issues in connection with corporate transactions and partners with her colleagues in corporate and executive benefits departments to provide the highest level of service. She also regularly leads employee trainings on workplace conduct and has been published in trade journals on a variety of employment law topics.

Sehreen’s clients come from a broad spectrum of industries, such as transportation, entertainment, healthcare, financial services, and retail. She leverages her experience to provide highly efficient, yet thoughtfully bespoke solutions to address her clients’ unique needs.

During law school at USC, Sehreen was the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice’sExecutive Submissions Editor and served as a judicial extern for an administrative judge at the E.E.O.C.

Sehreen was selected to be a Protégée for Proskauer’s Women Sponsorship Program, an initiative for high performing midlevel lawyers that champions emerging leaders. She also serves as a member of the Firm’s Associate Council and Asian Lawyer Affinity Group.

California continues to police artificial intelligence (“AI”) in the workplace.  Following proposed rulemaking on the use of AI for significant employment decisions, as we reported here, Assemblymember Isaac Bryan introduced Assembly Bill 1221 (“AB 1221”) this legislative session.  The bill aims to regulate workplace surveillance tools, including AI, and use of employee data derived therefrom.  Applicable to employers of all sizes, AB 1221 could

As we have reported time and again, California courts have applied extra scrutiny to employee arbitration agreements in recent years, and have not hesitated to deny arbitration where there is a reasonable basis for doing so.  This trend demands that employers be vigilant and update arbitration agreements when developments in the law implicate them.  In the recent case of Ford v. The Silver F,

Originally published in Law360: “6 Reasons Why Arbitration Offers Equitable Resolutions” 

On the 100th anniversary of the Federal Arbitration Act, it is worth recalling that the law was enacted in 1925 in response to what the U.S. Supreme Court later called, in its 2011 opinion in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion, “widespread judicial hostility” to arbitration.[1]

A century later, arbitration is still controversial, and remains

The California Court of Appeal dealt another blow to arbitration, just months after we reported the last such decision here.

This time, the Court ruled that the federal Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (“EFAA”) overrides state law—even in cases in which the employee has signed an arbitration agreement that explicitly invokes state law favoring arbitration.

Kristin Casey, a former

As we reported here, California’s Senate Bill (S.B.) 399, took effect on January 1, 2025. This law prohibits employers from requiring employees to attend meetings about the company’s opinions on political or religious matters, including discussions about unionization. California joins almost a dozen other states, including Illinois, New York, and Oregon, in enacting union-backed statutes that prohibit so-called “captive audience” meetings.

The Teamsters

Wildfires continue to rage across Southern California, leveling entire neighborhoods, forcing evacuations for tens of thousands of people, and posing incredible hardship on businesses and their employees.  Below are a few common scenarios employers should know about paying their California employees and maintaining compliance with wage and hour laws:

“Our office was closed for a few days because of the fires.  Do we have to

The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has released updated guidance clarifying how the state’s latest statutory enactments will impact employers’ paid sick leave obligations.  Specifically, as we reported here, Assembly Bill (AB) 2499 and Senate Bill (SB) 1105 expand the permissible reasons for which employees can use paid sick leave.

The updated FAQs now explain that, in addition to existing uses of paid

The California Labor Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) recently refreshed its Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) regarding Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims processing in light of the recent legislative reforms.

As we reported here, California enacted A.B. 2288 and S.B. 92 this past summer, bringing long-overdue reforms to PAGA.  The new legislation applies to PAGA notices and any resulting actions filed on or after June

For the second year in a row, California has avoided being “the worst in the nation,” but still managed to secure the unenviable third position on the American Tort Reform Foundation’s (“ATRF”) Annual Judicial Hellholes List.

The ATRF characterizes California as the “plaintiffs’ bar’s laboratory for finding new ways to expand liability,” highlighting several key judicial and legislative trends contributing to each Californian paying an

In what has become an annual tradition, California – that fabled workers’ paradise on earth – has enacted a slew of new laws that, come January, may keep even the most hearty HR professionals up at night.

As we reported earlier this year (here), the California Chamber of Commerce initially identified 11 “Job Killer Bills” that were introduced early in the legislative session, but