Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Labor and Employment Department; California Workplace Solutions Group

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.

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.

English

ABA, California Bar Association, Los Angeles Bar Association

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

Cooking, spending time with family, and enjoying her Jack Russell Terriers.