Jack Schaedel

Biography

Jack Schaedel, partner in Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan’s Labor & Employment Practice Group, has devoted his nineteen-year career to litigation of labor and employment law matters and advising employers in managing their workforce and complying with federal and California employment law.

Representing and counseling employers with as few as two employees and as many as 30,000, based in Pasadena, around Southern California, and throughout the United States, he helps employers understand the nuances and finer points of discrimination and harassment law, wage and hour rules and regulations, leave law based on medical, family or disability reasons, handbook development and enforcement, and the panoply of issues that may face a client on any given day.

Mr. Schaedel’s experience includes a favorable verdict on behalf of an individual sexual harassment defendant owed a duty of indemnification, and a million-dollar reverse fee award in favor of a client wrongly accused of sexual harassment by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He has also assisted clients facing multi-million dollar wage claims and other high-stakes employment litigation, but gets great satisfaction from helping clients develop systems to address and resolve issues before they get anywhere near that level.

Mr. Schaedel’s experience in labor law has involved representation campaigns and elections, collective bargaining negotiations, unfair labor practice arbitrations, and day-to-day CBA administration questions.

During his first nine years of practice, he worked for employment law boutique Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt, LLP, Loeb & Loeb, and Parker Milliken Clark O’Hara & Samuelian. Mr. Schaedel founded Schaedel & Associates, a Professional Law Corporation in 2004, operating it through 2009, when he joined forces with The Hernandez Law Group to create Hernandez Schaedel & Associates (“HS&A”). HS&A merged with Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan in 2013.

Mr. Schaedel is the founder and Chairman of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Pasadena Bar Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Law section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He is a former Vice President of the Board of Directors of the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce and is past President of the La Cañada Flintridge Educational Foundation, which raises over $2,000,000.00 annually to support class size reduction and special programs in the La Cañada Unified School District. Mr. Schaedel is a regular participant in Goldman Sachs’ Ten Thousand Small Businesses seminars, where he educated and counsels entrepreneurs on various aspects of employment law.

He is passionate about youth sports, having held leadership roles with F.C. Golden State, a youth soccer club based in Pasadena, the La Cañada Junior Baseball and Softball Association, and AYSO Region 13. Mr. Schaedel enjoys history, politics, travel, chess, sports, and foreign languages. He is married to a San Marino High School English teacher, and they have three children aged 7, 14, and 17 as well as a happy four-year old Jack Russell wirehaired terrier.

Mr. Schaedel received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and a B.S. from Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations. He also is a trained and skilled mediator, having earned a certificate from the world-renowned Straus Institute at Pepperdine University. He is admitted to practice in the State of California; United States District Court, Central District of California; and United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

In December of 2013, Mr. Schaedel was named “Business Attorney of the Year” by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Hispanic Chambers of Commerce for his work with the Hispanic and Latino business community throughout Los Angeles.

Mr. Schaedel has spoken on several topics on labor & employment law, including:

“ObamaCare – What Now for Employers?”
Moderator, October 2014, Pasadena Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section

“Hot Topics in Wage/Hour and Employment Mediation”
Moderator, September 2014, Pasadena Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section

“Wage/Hour – Strategies & Case Updates”
Host, August 2014, Pasadena Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section

“Labor & Employment Law”
Speaker, August 2014, TEN Esquire Network, Glendale Chapter

“Networking’s Next Step – Closing the Deal”
Speaker, July 2014, TEN Esquire Network, Pasadena Business Lawyers Chapter

“Social Media for Law Firms and Employers: Opportunities and Hidden Dangers”
Moderator, July 2014, Pasadena Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section

Publications:

“The Changing Minimum Landscape,” September 18, 2014.

“Significant Changes to Overtime Exemptions Proposed,” March 20, 2014.

“How High is Up? The Potential Effects of California’s Minimum Wage Hike,” December 5, 2013.

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

• UCLA School of Law, J.D.
• Cornell University, School of Industrial & Labor Relations, B.S.

Bar Admissions

• California
• United States District Court, Central District of California
• United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

In the News

• 9/1/2015 - PBA Discussion on Women’s Issues in the Workplace
• 9/1/2015 - Jack Schaedel - Facilitating NAMWOLF L&E Event
• 8/7/2015 - Jack Schaedel and Jamie Lopez to Moderate
• 5/22/2015 - Jack Schaedel Providing Anti-Harassment and Bullying Training
• 3/30/2015 - Jack Schaedel and Jamie Lopez Moderating at PBA Labor & Employment Law Section Meeting
• 3/12/2015 - Jack Schaedel – Moderator
• 12/8/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderating “Goal Setting for 2015”
• 11/4/2014 - Jack Schaedel Presenting “Building a Successful Employment Law Practice”
• 9/25/2014 - Jack Schaedel – Moderator
• 9/15/2014 - Jack Schaedel – Moderator
• 9/2/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderating Hot Topics in Employment Mediation
• 7/30/2014 - Jack Schaedel – Featured Speaker
• 7/29/2014 - Jack Schaedel and Jamie Lopez – Moderators
• 7/21/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderates at the PBA Labor & Employment Section Meeting
• 6/24/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderating at PBA/LACBA Labor & Employment Meeting
• 5/20/2014 - Jack Schaedel Served as Moderator and Panelist
• 5/2/2014 - Jack Schaedel to Moderate at the May PBA Labor & Employment and Tax Law Sections Meeting
• 4/17/2014 - Jack Schaedel and Jamie Lopez Discuss California Employment Law with Scholars of Goldman Sachs’ 10,000 Small Businesses Program
• 3/18/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderated Employment Law Arbitration Panel
• 3/13/2014 - Jack Schaedel Serves as Panelist
• 2/7/2014 - Jack Schaedel Moderating at PBA LACBA Labor & Employment Law Section Meeting
• 12/9/2013 - Jack Schaedel named Best Business Attorney by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
• 11/18/2013 - GSH Pasadena Attorneys attended the Pasadena Bar Association’s 3rd Annual Professional Development Conference
• 11/18/2013 - GSH Pasadena Attorneys attended a Breakfast Club Presentation Sponsored by State Assembly Member Jimmy Gomez
• 10/1/2013 - Los Angeles and Pasadena Partners Attend 24th Annual California Minority Counsel Program Business Conference
• 7/16/2013 - Six Pasadena Attorneys Listed as 2013 Top Attorneys by Pasadena Magazine
• 6/14/2013 - Jack Schaedel presents “Employing the Immigrant Workforce” and “Franchise Relations: Independent Contractor or Employee”
• 6/12/2013 - Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan LLP Continues Growth in Southern California

Publications