About Us
With a singular focus on labor and employment law, Littler provides legal strategies and solutions for employers of all sizes, everywhere.
With an unparalleled commitment to labor and employment law, our team is better equipped to serve your business. Our experience is vast and our knowledge is deep, but we realize it's not enough to know just the law – we have to know your business, too.
Who We Are
At Littler, our unparalleled commitment to labor and employment law helps our clients navigate a complex business world with nuanced legal issues – building better solutions for their toughest challenges.
How do we do it? By harnessing our deep experience and expansive resources that are local everywhere. By recruiting a team of the brightest minds and fostering a culture that celebrates original thinking. By disrupting the status quo with bold, groundbreaking innovation – all in service to our clients.
Our firm history: Passion. Vision. People.
In 1942, Robert Littler, at that time the Pacific Coast director of the National War Labor Board, and Thomas Coakley, until then a California deputy attorney general, formed the first law firm in the San Francisco Bay area to focus exclusively on representing employers in labor and employment law matters. Arthur Mendelson joined the firm in 1944.
By the 1960s, the firm saw rapid business development with expanding unionization and other employment law changes in northern California. With the addition of Wesley Fastiff and others, Littler was particularly qualified to meet these needs. The firm represented companies in a wide variety of industries, including numerous trucking companies, with Fastiff handling many landmark cases nationwide.
With the passage of civil rights legislation and other new employment laws, many of the firm's attorneys successfully represented and defended employers in civil rights, wrongful termination, workplace safety and employee benefits disputes, in addition to a continued representation of clients in traditional labor law matters.
Inclusion, equity and diversity lead to better outcomes.
We’re ready for your tomorrow – because we're built for it.
Leverage our firm’s collective experience and insights.
Committed to social responsibility in our communities.
AI Principles
Littler is at the forefront of leveraging AI and technology to streamline internal processes and benefit our clients, and we are committed to the responsible use of AI.
Our AI principles outline our approach to maintaining industry-best practices and using AI in a manner that is transparent and consistent with our ethical and professional duties.
Fuel your dream. Find your passion. Ignite your spark. Be you at Littler.
Working at Littler means the ability to collaborate with kind, supportive, trusting, intelligent and friendly people. A place where all employees are encouraged and incentivized to innovate and pursue new ideas.
Firm Leadership
Littler’s Board of Directors, Management Committee and Corporate Management team are made up of highly experienced attorneys at the helm. Each member brings a unique perspective and a commitment to excellence, ensuring our firm remains at the forefront of the legal industry. And with leadership at the highest levels, our commitment to a culture of respect, belonging and inclusivity remains central to firm function, our people and our work.
We champion the bold to achieve the extraordinary.
We're proud to be consistently recognized as one of the world's best places to work, a champion of diversity and a model of social responsibility.