Nathan K. Norimoto focuses his practice on representing employers in complex wage-and-hour class and representative actions, as well as single-plaintiff matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination. Nathan litigates in state and federal courts and represents clients in private arbitrations and before administrative agencies.
Nathan also counsels and advises clients on state and federal wage-and-hour compliance, updating employee handbooks and policies, and trade secret and employee mobility issues.
Nathan represents employers in matters pertaining to the telecommunications, retail, healthcare, food and beverage, staffing, life sciences, technology, banking, and construction industries.
Concentrations
• Employment class, collective, and representative actions
• Employment litigation, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation claims
• Employment counseling
Experience
Representative Matters
• Defended a telecommunications company and secured a dismissal of a statewide, putative class and California Labor Code Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) representative action in federal court.°
• Defended a biotechnology company in securing a dismissal of a wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation complaint in federal court.°
• Defended a nationwide hotel operator in putative class and PAGA actions alleging failure to provide meal and rest periods, failure to pay minimum and overtime wages, failure to pay wages to terminated employees, failure to maintain records, failure to furnish accurate wage statements, failure to indemnify employees for business expenses, and violations of California’s Unfair Competition Law.°
• Defended a 24-hour residential care organization, and after taking over as lead counsel, renegotiated a mediator’s proposal for a putative wage-and-hour class and PAGA action that globally resolved multiple, pending wage-and-hour complaints.°
• Defended a technology company in a single-plaintiff wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and retaliation lawsuit.°
°The above representations were handled by Mr. Norimoto prior to his joining Greenberg Traurig, LLP.
Internships
• Law Clerk, Administrative Judge Emily MacMillin, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• Judicial Extern, Hon. William H. Orrick, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• Judicial Intern, Hon. Robert Hawk, Superior Court of California, County of Santa Clara
Recognition & Leadership
Professional & Community Involvement
• Member, California Lawyers Association, Committee on Federal Courts
• Member, National Asian Pacific American Bar Association
• Member, The Japanese American Bar Association
