Emily Burkhardt Vicente

Practice Areas

Ms. Burkhardt Vicente co-chairs Hunton Andrews Kurth’s firmwide labor and employment group and has a national practice focusing on complex employment and wage and hour litigation and advice. She is an accomplished trial lawyer who defends employers in complex employment litigation, including California and FLSA wage and hour class and collective actions, California PAGA actions, employment discrimination actions, and complex whistleblower matters. Ms. Burkhardt Vicente has successfully taken multiple class and collective actions to jury verdict. She also has a robust unfair competition, noncompete, and employee raiding practice.

In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Burkhardt Vicente helps employers develop forward-thinking compliance practices that reduce wage and hour disputes and help mitigate other employment-related risks while keeping her client’s business goals firmly in mind. She regularly counsels clients on employment-related matters, including design and implementation of diversity and inclusion programs, ESG initiatives, harassment and discrimination investigations, “me too” issues, fair-pay compliance, worker classifications, negotiation of employment contracts, and the use and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology in the workplace.

Ms. Burkhardt Vicente also serves as co-chair of the firm’s diversity & inclusion committee, where she advocates for the advancement, retention and promotion of diverse lawyers and staff.