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# Bryan Schwartz

Bryan Schwartz has an Oakland-based firm representing workers in class, collective, and individual actions in wage/hour, discrimination, whistleblower, and unique federal and public employee claims. He practices in state and federal trial and appeals courts, in arbitration, and before a variety of administrative agencies. Schwartz has been elected to chair the State Bar of California’s Labor & Employment Law Section, is an Executive Board member for the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), and is on the Board of Directors of the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center. He is President of FAIR (www.fair-foundation.org), an organization dedicated to providing fellowships to enter plaintiffs’ employment law for diverse new lawyers and law students. Schwartz is an amicus writer for CELA, having authored or co-authored the organization’s Supreme Court briefs in Brinker, Kirby, and Duran. [Bryan@BryanSchwartzLaw.com.](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/mailto:Bryan@BryanSchwartzLaw.com.)

### Articles written by this author:

[![PAGA: A decade of victories](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/media/zoo/images/Schwartz-Zamora-thinkstock-101053199_2805f71f7ad1de1e6757834749cba128.jpg)](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-september/paga-a-decade-of-victories "PAGA: A decade of victories")

## [PAGA: A decade of victories](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-september/paga-a-decade-of-victories "PAGA: A decade of victories")

The Private Attorneys General Act has been empowering plaintiff attorneys in employment law for ten years

[Bryan Schwartz](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/bryan-schwartz "Bryan Schwartz")
[Cecilia Guevara Zamora](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/cecilia-guevara-zamora "Cecilia Guevara Zamora")

[2014 September](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2014-september)

## [Using unpaid intern labor? It’ll cost you](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-november/using-unpaid-intern-labor-it-ll-cost-you "Using unpaid intern labor? It’ll cost you")

What you need to know about asserting claims for interns, apprentices, trainees, students, and volunteers

[Adetunji Olude](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/adetunji-olude "Adetunji Olude")
[Bryan Schwartz](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/bryan-schwartz "Bryan Schwartz")

[2015 November](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2015-november)