Steven W Moore

Practice Areas

Steven Moore is an experienced labor and employment litigator with a national practice.

He represents domestic and international employers in a broad range of disputes, particularly discrimination and wage and hour cases. His clients operate in a wide variety of industries, including health care, accounting, transportation, media, energy, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and financial services.

He represents domestic and international employers in a broad range of disputes, particularly discrimination and wage and hour cases. His clients operate in a wide variety of industries, including health care, accounting, transportation, media, energy, technology, hospitality, manufacturing, retail and financial services. Steve has defended employers against:

| California class actions and representative actions under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) involving theories related to overtime, minimum wage, meal periods, rest periods, wage statements, final pay, reimbursement and recovery periods

| Nationwide class actions involving allegations of systemic discrimination and other civil rights violations

| Nationwide class actions filed under the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

| Nationwide collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act and related state wage and hour laws

| Pattern-or-practice cases filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)

| Large-scale, systemic EEOC investigations in response to Commissioner's Charges and other class-based charges of discrimination

In addition to being a class action defense attorney, Steve is an accomplished trial attorney, having successfully won a variety of high-profile jury trials, including race, national origin, sex, pregnancy, disability, age, retaliation and other employment-based cases. He is also adept in handling emergency evidentiary hearings to secure early injunctive relief against departing executives and other workers for trade secret theft and other unfair competition against their former employers.

Steve often provides advice and counsel with respect to strategic planning and human resources issues, including executive terminations, wage and hour compliance and the development of personnel policies, employment contracts and noncompete agreements.

Due to his class action and collective action experience with statistical analyses, he assists companies with pay equity audits and other diversity and ESG-related initiatives and programs. He also utilizes data analysis to evaluate a company’s risks with wage and hour compliance including overtime, minimum wage, meal break, rest period and other related pay practices.

Career

Prior to joining Fox, Steve was a partner and co-chair of the class action litigation practice group at a national labor and employment law firm.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section (American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law, Co-Editor 2006-2013, Government Fellowship Task Force, Co-Chair 2013-2015, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee, Co-Chair 2003-2006) | Colorado Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section | Denver Bar Association | The Bar Association of San Francisco, Labor and Employment Law Section | State Bar of California, Labor and Employment Law Section

Personal

Old Dominion University (B.A.) | University of Denver College of Law (J.D.)

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Bar Admissions: California, Colorado