Greenberg Traurig

Labor & Employment

Shareholder

Mark D. Kemple is Co-Chair of the firm’s Labor & Employment Class and Collective Action practice and leads the Southern California Labor & Employment Practice. He has broad trial experience in many areas of the law, including employment class and individual litigation, consumer class litigation, false advertising, and unfair competition, where he focuses on the defense of wage/hour class actions and individual employment claims. Mark has handled disputes for companies of all sizes, and has tried numerous lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the United States. He has argued appeals in three federal circuits and several state courts of appeal, including in the California Supreme Court.

Concentrations
Employment and consumer class actions
Wage & Hour class and individual claims
Discrimination
Harassment
Commercial litigation

Capabilities
Litigation
Labor & Employment
Class Action Litigation

Admission to Practice
California
U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

English

• J.D., University of Southern California Law School, 1989
  • Order of the Coif
  • Law Review
  • Legal Writing Instructor
• B.A., Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, 1984