About Andrew Mcnaught

Employers in California face a unique, complex, and continually shifting landscape of state and local laws, rules, and regulations, all presenting significant compliance challenges, and legal and business risks. For more than 20 years, clients have looked to Andrew for practical, strategic solutions in managing these risks, and in defending their interests in litigated class, collective, and individual employment matters throughout California and beyond.

Andrew has a keen understanding of the unique legal and business challenges that operating in California presents to employers of all sizes. In addition to working with homegrown companies, he also represents numerous large employers based outside California that maintain significant workforces in the state. Andrew has handled litigation for and counseled clients in a wide range of industries including health care, retail, the sharing economy, transportation and logistics, software, financial and professional services, staffing services, defense contractors, and the arts. He draws on the depth and breadth of his experience with California employment law matters to create efficient and business-minded solutions to his clients’ legal challenges.

Throughout the US, Andrew leads the defense of high-exposure complex class, collective, and PAGA wage-and-hour cases of all kinds. He has secured numerous denials of class and collective certification in state and federal courts, and has successfully drafted, implemented, and compelled the enforcement of arbitration agreements with class waivers, often resulting in nominal or walk-away individual settlements. Andrew has also negotiated scores of settlements in complex wage-and-hour cases, obtaining excellent mediated results for his clients. In addition to defending class, collective, and representative litigation matters, he often solves problems for clients on a wide range of California wage-and-hour matters.

Andrew also has deep experience defending FEHA, Title VII, and ADA single- and multiplaintiff cases, and advising employers on related matters. He has won defense jury verdicts in such cases in the Superior Courts for the counties of San Francisco and Alameda, secured defense arbitration awards, and won summary dismissals in state and federal courts all over California.

Andrew uses technology to provide efficient client services, especially in defending large and complex class, collective, and representative actions. He partners closely with internal Seyfarth data managers and analytics teams to employ lean, cost-effective methodologies for the collection, analysis, and utilization of client data sets in litigation.

For more than a decade of his practice, Andrew has been proud to call Seyfarth home. He is passionate about representing his clients in, and advising on, cutting-edge labor and employment law cases and matters. He enjoys working with an incredibly talented and dedicated team at Seyfarth to provide unparalleled client service from one of the world’s preeminent labor and employment platforms.