Wiggins, Richard, Romano & Thorson, L.L.P. defends public and private employers and guides them through the integrated management of workplace injuries, disabilities, and grievances. We help our clients prepare handbooks, negotiate contracts and insurance coverage, and comply with workplace safety, privacy, wage & hour, notice and posting requirements.

We focus on the overlapping, often conflicting, legal and regulatory requirements of the ADA/FEHA, FMLA/CFRA, PDL, FTDI, workers' compensation laws, and other benefit and retirement programs.

Our attorneys lead employers through the interactive process, internal benefit and grievance processes, leaves of absence management, and the mediation and arbitration of labor disputes. We represent employers who face administrative complaints in hearings before the California Labor Commissioner, Department of Fair Employment and Housing, Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, Workers' Compensation Appeals Board, and all other state and local agencies.

Our goal is to limit liability for our clients through employee training and the effective management of accommodations, return to work disputes, leaves of absence, workplace injury claims, corrective actions and terminations. When employment litigation becomes necessary, our highly-rated litigation attorneys are ready with decades of collective trial experience in both state and federal courts.

The firm specializes in the cost-effective prevention and resolution of workplace issues before litigation starts, and the vigorous defense of our clients when litigation is unavoidable.