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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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’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 regularly defends employers across the US in California and FLSA wage and hour class and collective actions, California PAGA actions, employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases, 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 provides advice to clients on employment-related matters, including reductions in force, 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.

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 > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)

The Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP team has significant experience handling employment litigation, representing clients before the courts and administrative agencies in matters involving the theft of trade secrets, breach of restrictive covenants, discrimination, harassment and wage and hour compliance. Emily Burkhardt Vicente and Kevin White both sit at the head of the practice. Vincente works from the Los Angeles office and has significant experience taking hybrid class and collective action causes to jury trial. White is situated Washington DC and brings specialist knowledge of the retail and consumer products industry to the group. Supporting White in Washington is Ryan Bates, who handles class actions, collective actions and bet-the-company litigation. M. Brett Burns is a key figure in the San Francisco office and focuses his practice on wage and hour class and collective actions. Michele Beilke departed in June 2024.

United States > Labor and employment > Labor-management relations

Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP‘s labor and employment group is best known for its expertise in union and labor matters before the NLRB and the courts. Other areas of focus include wage-hour issues, the implementation of arbitration agreements, sick pay and leave laws and restrictive convenient agreements. Emily Burkhardt Vicente and Kevin White jointly lead the practice from the Los Angeles and Washington D.C offices, respectively.

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