Tyler Z. Bernstein

Overview

Tyler Z. Bernstein is a partner in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the firm's Orange County office.

Areas of Practice

Tyler harnesses his diverse legal background and expertise to help employers of all industries navigate high-stakes, sensitive, and complex employment litigation and personnel disputes. By leveraging his foundation as a complex commercial litigator, Tyler’s practice covers the full gamut of labor and employment litigation and counseling and also includes an additional focus on business-to-business disputes, risk and crisis management, and corporate governance.

A trusted advisor in boardrooms and tenacious advocate in courtrooms, Tyler is a first-chair litigator who is able to combine thoughtful and pragmatic legal advice and strategy with an aggressive and comprehensive approach to litigation. Tyler has extensive experience successfully defending against “bet the company” litigations and litigating single-plaintiff claims of all types and wage-hour representative and class actions in state and federal court. He also routinely provides general preventative advice and counseling to employers, management, and boards of directors on the full spectrum of personnel and compliance matters.

Experience

Defeated a former executive’s breach of contract and fraud claims against a national retailer client following a multi-day arbitration. The former executive sought nearly $5 million in allegedly unpaid compensation under his employment contract, as well as waiting time penalties and punitive damages. After receiving testimony from five witnesses and receiving almost 100 exhibits, the Arbitrator rejected virtually all of the former executive’s claims, finding that the employer paid the former executive all compensation that was due and owing and did not owe the executive the amounts he sought.