Allan G. King

Allan G. King combines his experience in employment law with his prior experience as a labor economist to handle statistical issues that typically arise in class action and "pattern and practice" cases. He assesses clients' practices involving hiring, promotion and pay and proposed reductions-in-force for adverse impact. 

In these efforts, Allan works closely with testifying and consulting experts in economics and statistics, and his experience as a labor economist permits him to identify the experts best suited to a particular matter. He also is equipped to effectively rebut opposing expert testimony and, in several cases, has filed successful Daubert motions attacking expert testimony.

Allan also has extensive experience conducting pay equity audits for all types of employers, from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies, and helped develop the Littler Pay Equity Assessment™, including counseling employers on a broad range of state and federal issues related to pay equity, from compliance, to updating policies and job descriptions, to training managers and recruiters, and more.

Allan is a frequent speaker on continuing legal education programs and has served as a member of Littler's Board of Directors. He is board certified in labor and employment law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Credentials & Recognition

Speaking Engagements

Rolling the Dice on Hiring: Unmasking Employment Bias Through Casino-Style Odds

  • May 9, 2024
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Pay Equity: Past, Present and Future

  • June 26, 2018
  • Kansas City Employer Conference

Pay Equity

  • May 4, 2018
  • Littler Executive Employer, Phoenix, AZ

The Pay Equity Wave Rolls On: What You Need to Know to Stay Afloat

  • May 3, 2018
  • Littler Executive Employer, Phoenix, AZ

Wage and Hour Class Action Avoidance: Lessons from Trial Attorneys

  • May 11, 2017

Pay Equity: A Rapidly Expanding Frontier

  • May 11, 2017

Gender Pay Disparity: The State Legislatures Are Taking Charge

  • October 13, 2016
  • 2016 New England Employer Conference, Burlington, MA

Retail Industry Roundtable

  • May 6, 2016
  • The 2016 Executive Employer® Conference, Scottsdale, AZ

Closing the Gender Pay Gap: The Role of State Fair Pay Laws

  • May 5, 2016
  • The 2016 Executive Employer® Conference

Workplace Equity: Creating a Gender-Neutral Workplace

  • May 4, 2016

Using Data Analytics in Assessing Litigation Risks

  • May 4, 2016

Additional Thought Leadership

"False-Positives” and the Probability of Discrimination: Why “Two or Three Standard Deviations" May Not Evidence a Pattern or Practice

  • 2013
  • Employee Relations Law Journal, Vol. 39, No.2

The Time Has Come For Plaintiffs To Put Up Their Dukes

  • March 20, 2012
  • Law360.com
  • Alex R. Frondorf

Effective Use and Management of Social Science Evidence

  • 2012
  • 37 Employee Relations Law Journal 3
  • J.S. Klein and G. Mitchell

You Can't Opt Out of the Federal Rules: Why Rule 23 Certification Standards Should Apply to Opt-In Collective Actions Under the FLSA

  • October 2011
  • Federal Courts Law Review
  • Vol. 5, No. 1, Federal Magistrate Judges Association
  • Lisa A. Schreter; Wilder F. Carole

Dukes and FLSA Collective Actions

  • June 28, 2011
  • Law360.com

Convictions Records and Disparate Impact

  • Spring 2011
  • Journal of Labor & Employment Law
  • Vol. 26, No. 3, American Bar Association
  • R. M. Fliegel and F. J. Barrow

Two or Three Standard Deviations from What?: How Gross v. FBL Financial Services Changes the Statistical Benchmark in ADEA Collective Actions

  • 2011
  • 37 Employee Labor Relations 17

The Propensity to Stereotype as Inadmissible ‘Character’ Evidence

  • 2011
  • Journal of Labor & Employment Law
  • Vol. 23, No. 27, American Bar Association
  • S. Amin

Put Up Your Dukes: Reconciling Individual v. Pattern or Practice Evidence of Discrimination

  • 2010
  • 36 Employee Relations Law Journal 3

Strange Fiction: The 'Class Certification' Decision in FLSA Collective Actions

  • 2009
  • 24 The Labor Lawyer 267
  • Camille C. Ozumba

Social Framework Analysis as Inadmissible 'Character' Evidence

  • 2008
  • 32 Law & Psychology Review 1
  • S. Amin

The Dukes 'Do-Over': The Substituted Opinion in Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

  • 2008
  • 8 Bender's Labor & Employment Bulletin 319

Gross Statistical Disparities as Evidence of a Pattern and Practice of Discrimination: Statistical v. Legal v. Significance

  • 2007
  • 22 The Labor Lawyer

The Perils of Union Activism Have Been Exaggerated

  • 2007
  • Employment Law 360
  • D.L. Christlieb

Class-Wide Determinations of Overtime Exemptions: The False Dichotomy Posed by Sav-on and a Suggested Solutions

  • Spring 2006
  • 21 The Labor Lawyer 257
  • Marlene S. Muraco

Is the System Broke or Are Brokers Gaming the System?

  • 2006
  • Law.com

Stealth Class Actions

  • 2005
  • GC New York, p. 2
  • C. Feege and J. Boudreau

Are There Due Process Limits to Class Size?: Reflections on Dukes v. Wal-Mart

  • Fall 2004
  • 14 Class Actions & Derivative Suits no. 4, p. 4

Statistics as a Guide to RIF Selections: Caveat Emptor

  • Summer 2004
  • 20 The Labor Lawyer 79

Gratz v. Grutter: Lessons for Pursuing Diversity in the Workplace

  • Spring 2004
  • Oklahoma City Law Review
  • Jeremy W. Hawpe

Vague Definitions on Overtime Pay Open Door to Litigation

  • 2003
  • New York Law Journal, p. S10
  • Elizabeth Becker

Resist and Report: A Policy to Deter Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

  • 1998
  • 50 Baylor Law Review 333

Estimates of the Size of the Illegal Migrant Population of Mexican Origin in the United States: An Assessment, Review, and Proposal

  • 1986
  • Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Americans: An Evolving Retaliation 13-36 H.L. Br
  • F.D. Bean and J. S. Passell

A Brief for a Tax-Based U.S. Immigration Policy

  • 1983
  • Population Research and Policy Review 2 (1983) 1-19
  • F.D. Bean and J.S. Passell

The Number of Illegal Migrants of Mexican Origin in the United States: Sex-Ratio Based Estimates for 1980

  • 1983
  • 20 Demography 99
  • F.D. Bean and J.S. Passell

Human Capital and the Risk of Divorce: An Asset in Search of a Property Right

  • 1982
  • 49 Southern Economic Journal 536

Labor Market Data Needs from the Perspective of ‘Dual’ or ‘Segmented’ Labor Market Research: Comment

  • April 1979
  • National Commission on Employment and Unemployment Statistics Background Paper No. 29, 86-90

Unemployment Consequences of Illegal Aliens from Mexico

  • March-April 1979
  • Texas Business Review, 43-47

The Mexican Alien Count

  • March 1979
  • Discovery, 16-19

A Note on Lucas’s Critique of the Human Capital Model

  • 1979
  • 14 Journal of Human Resources 130

Labor Market Discrimination Against Black Women

  • August 1978
  • Review of Black Political Economy

Race and the Determinants of Lifetime Earnings

  • 1978
  • 31 Industrial and Labor Relations Review 347
  • with C.B. Knapp

Industrial Structure, the Flexibility of Working Hours, and Women’s Labor Force Participation

  • 1978
  • 60 Review of Economics and Statistics 399

Counting Illegal Aliens: Myths and Misconceptions

  • 1978
  • Texas Business Review, 101-106
  • with K. Roberts, M.E. Conroy and J. Rizo-Patron

Is Occupational Segregation the Cause of the Flatter Experience – Earnings Profiles of Women?

  • 1977
  • 12 Journal of Human Resources 541

Is Occupational Segregation the Cause of the Flatter Experience – Earnings Profiles of Women?

  • 1977
  • 12 Journal of Human Resources 541

Demographic Influences on Labor Force Rates of Black Males

  • 1976
  • 99 Monthly Labor Review 42
  • with R. White

Minority Women, Professional Work

  • 1975
  • Manpower 7, 8-13
  • with A. Herman and R. Glover

An Interracial Analysis of the Determinants of On-The-Job Training

  • 1974
  • Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 279-286
  • with Charles B. Knapp

Black-White Economic Convergence and the Civil Rights Act of 1964

  • 1974
  • 25 Labor Law Journal 462
  • with Ray Marshall

Occupational Choice, Risk Aversion, and Wealth

  • 1974
  • 27 Industrial and Labor Relations Review 586

Minimum Wages and the Secondary Labor Market

  • 1974
  • 41 Southern Economic Journal 215

Stochastic Dominance and ‘The Economic Rationale of Occupational Choice'

  • 1973
  • Industrial and Labor Relations Review 26

A Comment on Bowles’ Model of Educational Planning

  • 1973
  • Economics of Planning, 131-135

Books & Book Chapters

  • Littler Mendelson on Employment Class Actions
  • contributing author, Second Ed.
  • 2012
  • Littler Mendelson on Employment Class Actions
  • contributing author, 2007 Ed.
  • 2007
  • Labor Economics: Wages, Employment and Trade Unionism
  • co-author, F.R. Marshall and A.M. Cartter, 3rd Ed., 1976 / 4th Ed., 1980

Organized Labor in Texas

  • The Texas Economy
  • Louis Rodriquez, ed., Madrona Press
  • 1978

An Economic Analysis of the Impact of Discrimination on the Employment of Women in the Professions, Women in Management

  • Human Services Monograph Series
  • Gerard, Oliver, and Williams, eds., The University of Texas 1976, 25-28

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