Lisa (Lee) A. Schreter

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Lisa "Lee" A. Schreter is a former chairperson and former member of Littler's Board of Directors. She focuses on representing employers in complex employment litigation and arbitration, including multiplaintiff, class, and collective actions, as well as helping employers to develop forward-thinking compliance measures that reduce wage and hour disputes and other employment-related issues. She also represents and counsels management clients in connection with all other types of labor and employment matters arising under federal and state laws such as:

  • The Fair Labor Standards Act
  • The Equal Pay Act
  • The Service Contract Act
  • State law wage and hour requirements

She regularly appears before federal and state courts, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division, and agencies charged with enforcing state law wage and hour requirements in various wage-related and equal employment disputes and appeals.  Additionally, Lee is a frequent speaker before industry and trade associations, business organizations and human resource groups concerning employment-related disputes and wage and hour issues.

Lee's clients include those in the following industries:

  • Healthcare
  • Telecommunications
  • Retail
  • Hospitality
  • Satellite/cable

Lee is a member of Littler's Diversity Council. She previously served as chair of the firm's Nominating Committee and co-chair of the LGBT Affinity Group.

Prior to becoming an attorney, Lee worked in human resources, where she gained extensive experience in wage and hour issues, employee relations, salary and benefit administration and general employment matters.

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Speaking Engagements

Special Sessions: What Does the Biden Administration's "Whole-of-Government" Approach Mena for Employers and Workers?

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

Class Action Roundtable

  • May 8, 2024
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Autopsy of a Wage and Hour Class Action

  • May 10, 2023
  • Littler Executive Employer Conference, Phoenix, AZ

The Thrill of Victory and the Agony of Defeat: Strategies that Work (and Don’t) When Defending and Preventing Class and Collective Actions

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

Understanding the DOL’s PAID Program: What it Means and How to Self-Audit for Compliance Success

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

Wage and Hour Update: Retrenching on the Federal Level and Continued Activism on the Local Level

  • May 11, 2017

Additional Thought Leadership

Pharmaceutical sales reps can't receive overtime pay under FLSA

  • July 2012
  • InsideCounsel

Justices 5-4 Reject Labor Department View, Find Pharmaceutical Sales Reps FLSA-Exempt

  • June 18, 2012
  • Bloomberg BNA Daily Labor Report
  • Tammy McCutchen

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
  • Allan G. King; Wilder F. Carole

Out in the Office

  • May 1, 2008
  • InsideCounsel

Lee Schreter Suggests a Talk with the DOL

  • February 20, 2007
  • HR News Online

Wage-Hour Class Actions: The Newest Assault on Pay Practices

Work Place Privacy Issues in the Era of Electronic Communications

Wage and Hour Class Actions in the Healthcare Industry: Diagnosis and Prevention in 2010

New Friends in the Lion's Den: Call the U.S. Labor Department Before it Calls You

Developing a 'Clock-Work' State of Mind: Avoid ‘Off-the-Clock' Work Claims by Non-Exempt Employees

The Use of Forensic Experts in Sexual Harassment Related Litigation

Fighting Fire with Faragher: Using a Sexual Harassment Defense to Stamp Out Wage & Hour Claims

Gender Identity and Expression: The New Frontier for Workplace Protection Against Discrimination

Using Rule 23 to Define FLSA Class Actions: A Solution to the ‘Similarly Situated’ debate

The Civil Rights Act of 1991; Procedural Issues; Retroactivity, and Seniority Systems

Adopting the Avoidable Consequences Affirmative Defense: Applying the Lessons of Ellerth/Faragher to FLSA Claims

Off the Clock: FLSA Compliance the Internal Audit and the Department of Labor

Workplace Harassment Litigation: The Use of Forensic Experts and Discovery of Prior Sexual History under Federal Rule of Evidence 412

When "On-Call" is "On-the-Clock"

Dodge the Double Whammy: Build Your Good-Faith Defense to Wage and Hour Claims to Reduce Liability in Two Ways

A Minute A Day Equals Millions in Back Pay; The Fair Labor Standards Act: An Outdated Statute Comes of Age

Conquering Mount Clemens: Blocking the Mount Clemens Burden-Shifting Framework with Preventative Measures

Communicating With and Obtaining Declarations From Putative Class Members

Books & Book Chapters

Fair Labor Standards Act

  • American Bar Association

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