On the workers' side.
Ackermann & Tilajef is a wage-and-hour class-action firm. We represent employees, from a single worker to an entire workforce, across California, Washington, Texas, Nevada and Colorado.
For nearly two decades the firm has brought class, collective and representative actions for workers, recovering wages that employers withheld, one case at a time, on behalf of large groups of employees.
The work spans the full range of what goes wrong at work: unpaid overtime, missed meal and rest breaks, workers misclassified as contractors, expenses never reimbursed, and, alongside the wage practice, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and the contract, equity and severance disputes that senior employees face. Some of it is one worker against a company. Much of it is an entire workforce.
What stays constant is the side of the table. The firm sits with employees.
Most of what the firm does is simple to say and hard to do: make the pay right, make the treatment fair, and make it stick for the whole crew, not just the person who called.
Ackermann & Tilajef's attorneys handle class, collective, PAGA, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage-and-hour, and executive-employment matters. Craig Ackermann has served as lead counsel in more than 2,000 class, collective, and PAGA cases involving more than 500,000 workers since 2007. The firm's work includes contested class-certification rulings, jury verdicts, and individual and class settlements for workers and executives.
The firm, in numbers
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different; the value and outcome of your matter will depend on its specific facts.
How the firm works.
The core of the practice is wage-and-hour class and representative actions, unpaid wages, missed breaks, misclassification and expense reimbursement, brought for whole groups of workers at once.
Alongside wage cases, the firm handles discrimination, harassment and retaliation, and executive contract, equity and severance disputes, individual and class.
The initial review has no cost or obligation. The firm will review what you share and contact you about possible options and next steps. Bring whatever you have, for you or for your coworkers.
Where the firm practices
Wage-and-hour class, collective and representative actions; discrimination, harassment and retaliation matters; and the contract, equity and severance disputes senior employees face.
Employees, from a single worker to an entire workforce. Class actions are the core of the practice, so one call can raise a question the whole crew shares.
The firm's attorneys are admitted in California, Washington, Texas, Nevada, Colorado, New York and New Jersey. Its core practice runs in California, Washington, Texas, Nevada and Colorado, where a licensed attorney of the firm leads each state's matters.
The firm keeps offices in Beverly Hills, California and Tacoma, Washington. An office is where the firm works from, not the limit of where it can represent you: representation depends on attorney licensure in your state, not on a building nearby.
The people who do the work.
Shareholders and associates who prepare, litigate and support employment matters across five states.
Meet the team
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Every case is different; the value and outcome of your matter will depend on its specific facts.