Andrew B. Kaplan

Partner

Andrew Kaplan is a partner at Silver & Freedman and Chair of the firm's Employment and Labor Law Department. Andy works with employers in all phases of employer-employee relations. His practice includes union organizing efforts, collective bargaining, client counseling, and employment documentation. Andy litigates unlawful termination, discrimination, harassment, wage and hour (both class actions and individual claims) and other employment-related claims before federal and state, trial and appellate courts as well as administrative agencies.

Andy is a frequent speaker on topics including the union/non-union workplace, wrongful discharge, sexual harassment and discrimination, wage and hour, leaves of absence, and other labor relations matters to both business and professional groups; and his articles on these and other employment matters regularly appear in a number of national magazines. He is also co-author of The EPL Book entitled "A Practical Guide to Employment Practices, Liability and Insurance" (3rd Ed. 2001, Griffin Communications).

Andy works with clients from virtually every segment of this nation's industrial and service economy. Representative of these clients are the Printing Industries Association of both Northern and Southern California and their 3,100 members, numerous restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area, both chains and independents, and health care providers, ranging from acute care hospitals, to nursing homes, to individual medical and dental practices.

Andy received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley in 1973 and his B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1970.

In 1998, 1999 and 2000, Andy participated in the California AIDS Vaccine Ride, a 7-day, 570 mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles to raise money for AIDS-related charities. In 2001, he rode through subfreezing temperatures as part of the Alaska AIDS Vaccine Ride - six days, 510 miles from Fairbanks to Anchorage. In 2002, Andy sloshed through five days of rain as he rode in the first ever European AIDS Vaccine Ride, a 7 day, 550-mile ride from Amsterdam to Paris. Overcoming a series of obstacles, including not learning to ride a bike until he was 21, not being able to drink water and ride his bike at the same time, a fall during a training ride which broke two ribs and punctured a lung and a triple hernia repair, Andy still raised over $50,000 for AIDS charities.