Patrick Madden is a partner in the firm's Labor, Employment, and Workplace Safety practice. He has dedicated the last 25 years to counseling employers on wage and hour and employment issues and successfully defending employers against wage and hour class actions and other employment lawsuits. Patrick has worked on hundreds of class actions with putative classes ranging up to hundreds of thousands of employees and potential damages at times over a billion dollars. These class actions have involved wage calculation and payment, compensation design, entitlement to overtime and benefits, off-the-clock claims, rest and meal period claims, challenges to exempt status, claims to employee status by independent contractors and gig economy workers, unfair business practices, discrimination, and retaliation.
