Ms Emily Burkhardt Vicente > Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP > Los Angeles, United States > Lawyer Profile

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP Offices

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
550 SOUTH HOPE STREET, SUITE 2000
LOS ANGELES, CA 90071
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Ms Emily Burkhardt Vicente

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+1 213.532.2153 ebvicente@huntonak.com View profile

Work Department

Financial Services, Retail and Consumer Products, Food Industry, Hospitality, Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), Labor and Employment, Complex Employment Litigation, Wage and Hour Class Actions, Unfair Competition and Employee Raiding, Class Action, Multidistrict Litigation, Health Care and Life Sciences, Labor and Employment Emerging Technology

Position

Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor and Employment Group

Career

Ms. Burkhardt Vicente co-chairs Hunton Andrews Kurth’s firmwide labor and employment group and has a national practice focusing on complex employment and wage and hour litigation and advice. She is an accomplished trial lawyer who defends employers in complex employment litigation, including California and FLSA wage and hour class and collective actions, California PAGA actions, employment discrimination actions, and complex whistleblower matters. Ms. Burkhardt Vicente has successfully taken multiple class and collective actions to jury verdict. She also has a robust unfair competition, noncompete, and employee raiding practice.

In addition to her litigation practice, Ms. Burkhardt Vicente helps employers develop forward-thinking compliance practices that reduce wage and hour disputes and help mitigate other employment-related risks while keeping her client’s business goals firmly in mind. She regularly counsels clients on employment-related matters, including design and implementation of diversity and inclusion programs, ESG initiatives, harassment and discrimination investigations, “me too” issues, fair-pay compliance, worker classifications, negotiation of employment contracts, and the use and implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technology in the workplace.

Ms. Burkhardt Vicente also serves as co-chair of the firm’s diversity & inclusion committee, where she advocates for the advancement, retention and promotion of diverse lawyers and staff.

Memberships

Admitted to the California and Georgia Bars

Education

  • JD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with honors; Order of the Coif; Order of the Barristers, 1999
  • BA, St. John Fisher College, summa cum laude, 1996

Lawyer Rankings

United States > Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling

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The Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP labor and employment team has recently been working on union organizations, as well as multiple employee separation agreements for c-suite executives. The team is led by Emily Burkhardt Vicente in Los Angeles, and Kevin White in Washington DC.

United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations

Labor and employment team co-chair Emily Burkhardt Vicente in Los Angeles and Kevin White in Washington DC lead the team at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, which often appears before the National Labor Relations Board. A feature of the group’s practice is its flexibility when dealing with litigation for unionized employers and tailoring their approach to unique defenses available to them. Such litigious matters include wage-hour class action matters, particularly in the retail and consumer products sector. Non-contentious issues handled by the group often involve collective bargaining agreements.

United States > Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)

The practice at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP is co-led by Emily Burkhardt Vicente from Los Angeles and Kevin White from Washington DC. Burkhardt Vicente is well-versed in litigating hybrid class and collective action cases, and has particular focus on the defense of sexual harassment and equal pay challenges. White has focused his practice on defending retail and energy-sector clients in discrimination and wage and hour class action litigation, as well and handling government agency discrimination investigations. Additional key contacts include Washington-based Ryan Bates, Los Angeles-based Michele Beilke, and Michael Brett Burns of the San Francisco office.

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