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Zachary W. Shine

Associate

Zack Shine defends employers and provides guidance on all employment law needs, including wage and hour compliance, worker and independent contractor classifications, performance management, disability accommodations, leaves of absence, employee mobility, workplace restructuring, compensation arrangements, and strategic hiring and separations. He defends employers in wage and hour class actions, Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) representative actions, and all types of individual claims, including harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, breach of contract, restrictive covenants, and wage and hour. 

A significant portion of Zack’s practice involves counseling clients on employment issues related to mergers, acquisitions, investments, and other major domestic and international corporate transactions. Zack also coordinates closely with in-house counsel and client business teams to develop and implement incentive compensation plans that meet their business and legal objectives.

Zack regularly counsels and defends clients in the technology, media, entertainment, hospitality, ecommerce, life sciences, transportation, and financial services sectors in state and federal courts, before administrative agencies, and in arbitration. Using his experience as a litigator, Zack also drafts, revises, and assists clients with employment policies, on- and off-boarding documentation, severance and separation packages, warning and discipline documentation, workforce communications, executive agreements, human resources audits, strategic policy implementation, and internal investigations.

Zack is committed to the firm’s pro bono program, diversity and inclusion efforts, and mentoring young lawyers.

  • Pepperdine University School of Law, 2010, J.D.
  • University of California, Santa Cruz, 2005, B.A., history, with honors
  • California
  • US District Court for the Eastern District of California
  • US District Court for the Northern District of California
  • US District Court for the Central District of California

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Litigation - Labor and Employment, San Francisco (2022–2025)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Employment, Law360 (2017, 2019)

National Champion, ABA Labor & Employment National Trial Advocacy Competition (2010)