EmployLaw Group Marks One Year of Defense-Side Legal Strategy

The Thousand Oaks-based firm has spent its first year building a model where litigation experience directly informs preventative counseling. Stein, who leads the firm’s defense practice in individual and class-action lawsuits, collaborates daily with Haws, who manages the firm’s advice-and-counsel division. This feedback loop allows the firm to identify emerging legal theories from plaintiffs' attorneys and translate them into actionable policies for clients long before those theories reach appellate court rulings.

Since its inception, the practice has expanded to serve clients across sectors including manufacturing, aerospace, healthcare, and hospitality. Having grown to support several hundred companies, the firm is now scaling its team and physical footprint, with plans to add associate attorneys in the coming year. Their approach centers on the belief that compliance requires more than just knowing statutes; it demands an understanding of how those laws are being leveraged in current litigation. By positioning education as a form of risk management, the firm aims to move employers away from reactive legal stances toward proactive, informed decision-making.