Spencer Hamer

Partner

ORANGE COUNTY
5 Park Plaza
Suite 1400
Irvine, CA 92614

949.468.3200

Spencer Hamer represents employers in state and federal courts in a wide range of employment law matters, including discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of contract, whistleblower claims, and wage and hour class actions. He regularly advises employers on all aspects of employment law compliance and strongly believes in taking proactive steps to avoid litigation. Policy and procedure development, wage-hour audits, workplace investigations, and management training are core aspects of his approach. In addition, Spencer has conducted employment law due diligence on numerous deals and helps clients at the pre-sale stage identify and mitigate employment law risk.

Spencer believes that understanding a client’s industry is critical, and has represented clients in various industries, including healthcare, hospitality, retail, insurance, manufacturing, and technology.

Representative Matters

  • Prevailed in three-week jury trial against former employee raising whistleblower claims
  • Prevailed in jury trial against employee raising disability discrimination claims
  • Prevailed in bench trial against employer alleging violations of the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA)
  • Prevailed on numerous summary judgment motions, including hostile work environment harassment, disability discrimination, and retaliation claims
  • Prevailed on claims against former employees in multi-jurisdictional trade secret misappropriation dispute
  • Favorably resolved numerous wage hour class actions, PAGA claims, and single-plaintiff cases.
  • Conducted lead employment law M&A due diligence on over 100 buy and sell side deals involving
    companies in a variety of industries including technology, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, life sciences, and finance
  • Advised multiple Chief Executive Officers in negotiation of employment agreements, exit-related issues, and compensation-related disputes
  • Supervised and conducted investigations involving allegations of race discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, fraud, trade secrets misappropriation, and executive misconduct.

Admitted to Practice

States

  • State Bar of California
  • State Bar of Tennessee

United States District Courts

  • Central District of California
  • Eastern District of California
  • Northern District of California
  • Southern District of California

United States Courts of Appeals

  • Ninth Circuit

Education

  • University of Southern California Law School, J.D.
  • University of Michigan, B.A.

Professional Associations & Memberships

  • State Bar of California (Labor & Employment Section)
  • Orange County Bar Association (Labor & Employment Section)
  • American Bar Association (Labor & Employment Section)
  • Federalist Society
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