Lindsay David focuses her practice on wage and hour class action litigation, collective actions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as well as representative wage and hour litigation under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) – from case inception through appeal. She represents companies from startups to Fortune 500 companies in all types of state and federal employment litigation.
Education
- California Western School of Law (J.D., 2012)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (B.A., 2008)
- Linguistics
Bar Admission
- California
Court Admissions
- U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Central District of California
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
Recognition
- Super Lawyers® Rising Star, Class Action/Mass Torts: Defense, Employment Litigation: Defense, and Employment & Labor: Employer, 2020-2024
- American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Federal Civil Procedure, California Western School of Law
Publications
Non-compete agreements in California: A model for worker freedom or business risk?
Lindsay David and Tiffany Hansen discuss California's restrictions on non-compete agreements and their impact on employers.
Read MorePAGA Amendments Aim to Bring PAGA Litigation Under Control
California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) has undergone substantial, and arguably overdue, reform by way of dual legislative measures - Assembly Bill 2288 and Senate Bill 92. PAGA 2.0 will apply to PAGA civil complaints filed after June 19, 2024, as well as PAGA notices sent to the Labor & Workforce Development Agency (LWDA) after June 19, 2024.
PAGA 2.0 aims to reign in meritless PAGA claims with several initiatives. Perhaps most promising is the statute’s new preemptive or post-notice compliance measures that, where instituted by employers, can substantially minimize penalties, even if the preventive measures don’t fully remediate the violations. The new amendments also provide for expansive cure provisions, require PAGA plaintiffs to have actually suffered any violations they may
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