Elizabeth Nguyen
USC Gould School of Law

Elizabeth Nguyen, co-founder and shareholder of Lidman Law, is an employment litigator with extensive experience in a broad range of employment law matters in arbitration and both state and federal courts throughout California. She has exclusively litigated wage and hour class actions, representative actions under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA), wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment matters for most of her legal career.

Her practice currently focuses on litigating wage and hour class actions and representative PAGA actions on behalf of employees who were not paid all wages, not provided with all meal or rest breaks, not paid all minimum or overtime wages, misclassified, among other issues.

Prior to starting Lidman Law in January 2018, Nguyen was a shareholder at Littler Mendelson, the world’s largest labor and employment law firm representing employers. Having spent more than 10 years as an employment defense attorney representing employers of all sizes, including Fortune 100 companies, Nguyen brings a unique perspective to her current practice that focuses on representing employees. She also counseled clients in developing and implementing legally compliant cost-effective solutions, while at the same time meeting the business-side’s needs. While at Littler, she was the co-chair of its Ohana Affinity Group and served on the recruiting committee for the Century City and Los Angeles offices.

Nguyen was selected to the 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list, in the area of Employment and Labor, for excellence in practice.

She graduated with a BS in business administration from Pepperdine University, cum laude, and received her JD from Loyola Law School.  

FACULTY IN THE NEWS

The Washington Post
July 28, 2021
Re: Clare Pastore

Clare Pastore was interviewed about the Activision Blizzard lawsuit. “The DFEH would want to take on cases to set precedents, against particularly bad actors, if there are lot of complaints about the same employer, or to send a wake up call to the industry," she said.

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Robin Craig
May, 2021

Robin Craig accepted the invitation of the Environmental Law Institute (Washington. D.C.) to participate in its new project on Communicating the Science of Sea Level Rise. The project will involve a webinar and a conference in late 2021, with Craig slated to speak on property, water law, and constitutional issues arising from adaptation to sea level rise.

Robin Craig
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Robin Craig accepted an invitation to join the Advisory Board of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Center for Water Policy.