Overview

Mary Snyder has been a litigator and counselor at law since 1999. Her practice includes litigation in state and federal courts, as well as in front of administrative tribunals, in arbitrations and in appellate proceedings. Mary’s litigation experience includes matters brought under a full range of employment laws such as the state and federal wage and hour laws, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family and Medical Leave Act, as well as their state equivalents, and cases brought under contract law, negligence law and other state and federal causes of action. Mary spends a large portion of her practice representing companies faced with class, collective and representative actions, such as those brought under the FLSA, the California Labor Code and California’s PAGA.

In her employment practice, Mary exclusively represents employers and management in response to claims brought by employees. Mary regularly advises companies and human resource representatives on employment policies and best practices, including proper drafting of a full range of employee-related policies and procedures, potential discrimination, harassment, retaliation, reasonable accommodation and wage and hour claims.

She also serves clients with business immigration needs. Mary focuses her immigration practice on providing services to businesses that wish to have their immigration work done by an attorney who also has a deep knowledge of employment law. In this context, Mary advises small, medium and large-sized employers regarding immigration benefits available to meet their global workforce needs, managing I-9 compliance and audits as well as handling government audits or inspections relating to immigration matters. She also assists companies and foreign workers with obtaining temporary and/or permanent work status in the United States. In addition, she advises employers regarding immigration-related employment discrimination as regulated by the Department of Justice Office of Special Counsel and federal I-9 compliance.

Fluent in Spanish, Mary is able to investigate cases and conduct employee training in Spanish where the workforce so requires.

Mary is a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) Wage and Hour Committee (a committee of the Section on Labor & Employment Law and formerly known as the Federal Labor Standards Legislation) and has been a contributing editor for various of the committee’s publications.

Mary has repeatedly been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for Employment Law – Management and Labor Law – Management.

Mary is licensed in California and Oklahoma. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Spanish, with honors, from Portland State University in 1996 and her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1999.