Brent M. Douglas

Brent Douglas is a seasoned California litigator with experience providing both compliance and litigation support to businesses statewide. Brent’s practice focuses on employment claims, wage-and-hour class actions, partnership disputes, and general business litigation.

In addition to representing employers against both individual and class-action claims, Brent counsels human resources personnel on terminations, leave-of-absence issues, and wage-and-hour compliance. This advice includes compliance with the ADA, FMLA, CFRA, WARN and mini-WARN, the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), ADEA, Older Worker Benefits Protections Act, Uniform Trade Secret Act, and the EEOC, DLSE, and NLRB enforcement manuals.

Brent is corporate counsel on mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, and financings for a wide range of industries in the $2m – $25m range, and he routinely drafts and negotiates stock option plans, stock grants, and senior, subordinated, and mezzanine debt arrangements.

Brent’s clients range from Fortune 500 companies with multistate footprints to technology startups hiring their first employee. Brent brings his unique background to forge a personal relationship with each client. The sheer volume of California-based litigation that Brent has handled allows him to make cost-effective recommendations to his clients, often even before a lawsuit is filed.

Brent also conducts in-person workplace investigations and trains management on non-discrimination, non-harassment, and anti-bullying policies. Finally, Brent offers multi-state advice on restrictive covenants, non-disclosure / proprietary information agreements, and trade secret misappropriation.

Accolades

• Four Hahn Loeser Partners Earn Patriotic Employer Award
  October 17, 2023
• HR is Stuck Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Misclassifying Employee Status
  September 06, 2023
• Hahn Loeser’s San Diego Office Adds Labor & Employment Experience with Addition of Partner Brent M. Douglas
  August 12, 2020

• Speaker

  Vetrepreneur Business Legal Considerations

  November 28, 2023
• Speaker

  Brent Douglas on Background Checks (Compliance Perspectives Podcast)

  September 28, 2023
• Author

  New York Labor Law Creates Joint Liability for Construction Contractors

  October 13, 2021
• Author

  A Shift in Immigration Priorities: Anticipated Changes from the Biden Administration

  December 17, 2020