Millicent Sanchez, Janet Swerdlow and David Wimmer, partners at Swerdlow Florence Sanchez Swerdlow & Wimmer, A Law Corporation, a leading Los Angeles-based labor and employment law firm exclusively representing employers, were named to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers for 2025. This marks the eleventh year in a row that Janet Swerdlow has been selected and the nineteenth consecutive year that David Wimmer has earned selection to the list. Only five percent of the lawyers in California are selected by Super Lawyers.
Millicent Sanchez focuses her practice exclusively on labor and employment law representing management. Her extensive litigation experience includes representing employers before state and federal administrative agencies and in state and federal court on a broad range of issues, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, and wrongful discharge. Ms. Sanchez devotes considerable effort to educating the firm’s clients on legal developments impacting labor and employment issues. She counsels companies on day-to-day employment issues, including wage-and-hour questions, discipline and discharge, leaves of absence, and violence in the workplace, and on structuring and maintaining effective human-resources policies and practices, employee handbooks, agreements, workforce reductions and providing management training to help avoid litigation.
Ms. Sanchez frequently addresses employer and professional organizations on various issues, including employment discrimination, sexual harassment, discipline and discharge, workplace privacy, wage-and-hour matters, independent contractors, violence, drugs and other unlawful conduct in the workplace, investigations, and union avoidance.
Janet Swerdlow has been practicing exclusively in the area of labor and employment law, representing employers, since 1991. Ms. Swerdlow routinely represents employers before administrative agencies and federal and state courts. She counsels and assists employers in developing, implementing, and maintaining practices that minimize the risk of litigation in the workplace. Before joining the firm in 1998, Ms. Swerdlow practiced in the Labor and Employment Department at O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Swerdlow worked for several years as a mechanical and software engineer for TRW.
David Wimmer has extensive experience advising management on a wide range of labor and employment issues, including establishing effective human resource policies, maintaining a union-free workplace, and complying with federal, state, and local laws. Mr. Wimmer represents companies throughout the United States in labor-relations matters, such as union-avoidance strategies, election campaigns, collective bargaining, supervisory training, arbitrations, state and federal court litigation, and proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board.
Mr. Wimmer defends employers in single-plaintiff through class-action wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, discrimination, and wage-and-hour and PAGA matters, and in criminal investigations and prosecutions. He represents companies involved in state and federal court litigation, arbitration, and mediation matters, as well as administrative proceedings before the California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, California Civil Rights Department (f/k/a Department of Fair Employment and Housing), California Division of Occupational Safety and Health, California Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board, Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration and United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wimmer practiced labor and employment law with O’Melveny & Myers LLP in Los Angeles. He is rated A/V by Martindale-Hubbell, its highest rating for attorneys.
