Andrew Kaplan 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. In addition, Mr. Kaplan is co-author of The EPL Book - A Practical Guide to Employment Practices Liability and Insurance.

Andy works with clients from virtually every segment of this nation’s industrial and service economy. Representative of these clients are The Greater California Limousine Owners Association; the Printing Industries Association of both Northern and Southern California and their 3,100 members; and numerous restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area, both chains and independents.

Andy received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1970 and he graduated from Boalt Hall Law School at the University of California at Berkeley in 1973.

In 1998, 1999 and 2000, Andy participated in the California AIDS 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. And 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 the fact that he did not learn to ride a bike until he was 21, can't drink water and ride his bike at the same time, took 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.