Firm Description
Our Approach
With longevity and consistency rare among its peers, Foster Employment Law has been in continuous operation since 1991. We have a proven record of providing our clients with top-quality legal services at reasonable rates. We deliver professional advice and strategic recommendations that produce resolutions and limit disputes.
Our attorneys develop close working relationships with our business clients, who run the gamut from Fortune 500 companies to mid-tier businesses. And we assist with a broad array of professional challenges and needs, from full service litigation, to labor arbitrations, to human resource related advice, to wage and hour dispute representation. The result is top-notch service with rates significantly below the large, institutional firms.
At Foster Employment Law, we do not support or tolerate over-billing or excessive litigation. We zealously represent our clients in every aspect of litigation. Our zealousness, however, is always tempered by a practical desire to control the ever-increasing cost of litigation.
Foster Employment Law provides the following legal representation services:
Litigation
With experience and expertise, we have a long history of successful litigation representation for our clients.
Human Resources Advice/Wage & Hour Compliance
Companies need to keep pace with the sweeping changes in employment case law and regulations.
Labor Management Relations
Global competition and workplace restrictions require a law firm with a track record in successful labor management relations.
Training
Workforce training can reduce litigation risk in the face of increasingly complex workplace compliance issues.
Internal Complaints/Investigations
An independent investigation can mitigate a company’s risk by reducing potential liability and ensuring non-partiality.
Attorney Biographies
Bryan Daley
Bryan received his undergraduate education from Stanford University and his legal education from Harvard Law School, where he served for two years on the Law School Council and the faculty’s Legal Education Committee.
Bryan has been practicing employment law on behalf of corporate clients since he was admitted to the California Bar in 2003. He has represented employers in various employment-related lawsuits under state and federal law, including claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and interference with leaves of absence. He has also defended employers in several wage and hour class actions involving claims of unpaid overtime, off-the-clock work, and denial of meal and rest periods. In addition to appearing in California’s trial courts, Bryan has successfully argued before a California Court of Appeals and in administrative proceedings with the California Labor Commissioner.
Bryan was an associate at Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he practiced from 2003 to 2008.
Susan H. Roos
Susan "Susie" Roos graduated from Stanford University (A.B.) and the University of Southern California (J.D). During law school she externed for the Honorable Mariana Pfaelzer, United States District Court. She spent 13 years as an associate, and then a partner at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, in its Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. She has over 25 years of experience defending employers in all aspects of employment-related matters, including sexual harassment, all types of employment discrimination, ADA access issues and trade secret litigation. She also represents employers in collective bargaining and arbitrations pursuant to collective bargaining agreements. Her expertise includes advising and counseling employers regarding employment and severance agreements, wage and hour issues, labor relations, and employment law. She has jury and non-jury trial experience in both state and federal court, as well as extensive experience before federal and state administrative agencies, arbitrators and mediators.
Michael E. Wilbur
Michael E. Wilbur graduated from the University of South Carolina (B.A.,
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and Emory University School of Law (J.D.) He is admitted to practice in Georgia and California, and has almost twenty years' experience advising and counseling employers and representing employers in labor and employment matters before administrative agencies and in state and federal court litigation. He was previously an associate at Fisher & Phillips and Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. He frequently speaks to business groups on a variety of labor and employment law issues.
