Robin Samuel
USA Guide 2024
Band 5 : Labor & Employment
Band 5
About
Provided by Robin Samuel
Practice Areas
Robin Samuel leads Baker McKenzie’s US Labor & Employment team, is co-chair of the Firm’s Workforce Redesign service line, and is a Steering Committee member for the North American Employment and Compensation practice. Robin also serves on the California offices’ leadership team.
Robin helps clients manage and resolve local and cross-border employment issues, whether through counseling or litigation. He advises clients on virtually all aspects of the employment relationship, including hiring and firing, wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, contract disputes, restrictive covenants, employee raiding, and trade secret matters. Clients trust Robin to handle their most sensitive and complex employment issues.
Robin actively litigates class and collective claims, single plaintiff actions, and other employment disputes in state and federal court, arbitration, and before administrative agencies. He also handles sensitive internal investigations for clients around the world.
Robin helps clients achieve their business goals by guiding them towards practical and cost-efficient solutions to employment-related issues. Robin also provides in-house trainings on legal developments and trends.
Professional Memberships
State Bar of California, Labor and Employment Law Section - Member
Publications
• Contributor, The Employer Report
• NLRB Scrutiny of Severance and Separation Agreements, Thomson Reuter's GC Agenda, May 2023
• How Can Organizations Prepare For Generative AI?, World Economic Forum, May 2023
• Arbitration Use by Employers Up as High Court Affirms Validity, Forbes, August 2022
• Ask Help Desk: What happens if you refuse to go back to the office?, Washington Post, April 2022
• Co-author, "Update on COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates," Baker McKenzie InsightPlus, December 2021
• Religious Accommodation for COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Thomson Reuter's GC Agenda, November 2021
• Interview, "NLRB Access in Employment Arbitration Agreements," Thomson Reuter's GC Agenda, August/September 2019
Languages Spoken
English
Expert in these Jurisdictions
USA
Education
University of California at San Diego
BA
University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly University of California, Hastings College of the Law)
JD
Chambers Review
USA
Robin Samuel advises clients on a variety of matters, including wage and hour class actions and operational issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Robin is instrumental in providing valuable counsel in a variety of complex situations. He understands our company, business and employee base and expertly advises us."
"Robin is an outstanding adviser to us on our more thorny and complex matters."
"Robin is outstanding. He is an incredible representative of the firm. I don't know what we would do without his thoughtful, efficient and timely responses."
"Robin is instrumental in providing valuable counsel in a variety of complex situations. He understands our company, business and employee base and expertly advises us."
"Robin is an outstanding adviser to us on our more thorny and complex matters."
"Robin is outstanding. He is an incredible representative of the firm. I don't know what we would do without his thoughtful, efficient and timely responses."
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