Ms Debbie Caplan > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Los Angeles (Century City), United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
2029 CENTURY PARK EAST
SUITE 3500
LOS ANGELES, CA 90067-3021
CALIFORNIA
United States
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Ms Debbie Caplan
Work Department
Labor and Employment Department; California Workplace Solutions Group
Position
Debbie Caplan is Senior Counsel in the Labor & Employment Department in the Los Angeles office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. A former employment litigator in both state and federal courts, Ms. Caplan now focuses her practice exclusively on providing advice and counseling to employers on day-to-day human resources and employee relations issues, such as leave law management, wage/hour compliance, disciplinary and performance counseling, reasonable accommodation/interactive process, hiring and termination issues, harassment/discrimination complaints, internal investigations, drafting compliance policy documentation, and exempt/non-exempt classifications. In addition to day-to-day counseling, Ms. Caplan assists employers in the preparation of various employment-related documents, such as handbooks and policy manuals, job applications, offer letters and employment agreements, arbitration agreements, leave documentation, new hire and termination paperwork, severance and release agreements, compensation and bonus plans, and travel and expense reimbursement plans.
Career
Debbie began her career at Cox, Castle and Nicholson in Los Angeles as a general litigation associate, followed by a lateral to Seyfarth Shaw in February 2000 as an associate in the Labor and Employment Department. She was elevated to Senior Counsel in May 2011.
Languages
English
Memberships
ABA, California Bar Association, Los Angeles Bar Association
Education
JD University of California, Berkeley School of Law/Boalt Hall (1997); BA University of California, Berkeley, with high distinction in general scholarship and high honors in Psychology (1992); Phi Beta Kappa
Leisure
Cooking, spending time with family, and enjoying her Jack Russell Terriers.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Government > Government contracts
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious