Los Angeles, California – Rimon is pleased to welcome employment litigation Partner, Robert (“Rob”) Pepple in Los Angeles.
Rob joins Rimon from Nixon Peabody LLP, where he held the positions of Partner and co-leader of the Wage & Hour Compliance and Litigation Team, and the Los Angeles’ office pro bono partner liaison to the national team.
“We are very excited to welcome Robert to the firm,” commented Juan Zúñiga, Managing Partner of Rimon. “Robert has deep expertise in wage and hour at the national level, and also specifically in California where employment law is notoriously complex. We are thrilled to be expanding our employment practice.”
Robert (“Rob”) Pepple is a partner in the Employment Law practice group, trusted by employers of all sizes throughout the state of California and nationally on federal employment-law issues. Rob’s practice centers around vigorous and cost-effective defense of wage and hour class action and/or Private Attorney General Act (“PAGA”) actions, law which he has special insight into as the author of a constitutional challenge to PAGA that was dismissed by the court of appeal in 2023. This intense focus on class actions and PAGA litigation also means that Rob has developed extensive experience drafting and enforcing arbitration agreements with class and/or representative action waivers – a vital area of focus in wage and hour litigation.
Rob is equal parts lawyer and (self-taught) data-scientist, and he has spent the better part of his career not just advising clients and litigating cases, but he has built a reservoir of checklists, tools, templates, excel formulas, quantitative induction models, and – most recently – bespoke relational databases that allow him to scale and deploy next-generation litigation solutions.
Beyond wage and hour, Rob also advises clients on how to comply with state and federal anti-discrimination, arbitration, whistleblower, harassment, retaliation, leave, and other employment and regulatory obligations (e.g., FMLA/CRFA, WARN Act/California WARN Act, NLRA, FAA,).
Rob also has extensive experiencing conducting on-site investigations for wage and hour compliance, providing required anti-harassment training, and conducting investigations into unlawful harassment, and other bespoke client-solutions.
He also supports clients in collective bargaining negotiations, particularly with respect to how those negotiations impact or align with California wage and hour laws and other existing employer obligations.
On joining Rimon, Robert said:
“Following an event this summer that shocks one into deep-reflection, the necessity to evolve my practice became extremely clear. This led to an intensive investigation into how to eliminate the waste in litigation but without sacrificing quality of papers or service. After looking around for products or services that would fill these needs, and finding none, I decide to build them myself. Out of all the firms I interviewed, Rimon had the strongest profile with respect to these essential firm-attributes: (1) a transparent and un-encumbered structure that honors the attorney-client relationship (2) multiple colleagues in California with wage & hour expertise (a first in my career), (3) and a technology-friendly-platform that would allow me to continue to develop my techno-legal, client-centric, solutions.”
