Patti Syverson is an experienced Employment Law and Class Action lawyer. Patti is dedicated to protecting the rights of individuals against unjust and unlawful practices. In keeping with this desire, Patti’s practice focuses on employment law class actions, where she strives to protect employee rights in the workplace and has represented employees in individual, collective, and class actions for recovery of unpaid overtime and wages due under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and state unpaid wage statutes.

Patti’s practice is primarily devoted to wage and hour litigation. She has litigated numerous class and collective actions and individual actions on behalf of employees seeking to recover unpaid overtime, minimum wage, and wages earned when off the clock. Patti has fought for employees against businesses of all sizes, ranging from small businesses to internationally recognized megacorporations.

In addition, Patti’s practice has focused on ensuring that the rights of individuals as consumers are also protected. Patti has extensive experience representing plaintiff classes against companies alleging unfair business practices, false and deceptive advertising, data breach and product liability cases. In the over two decades she has been practicing, Patti has successfully represented millions of purchasers of consumer products, including food, vitamin supplements, over-the-counter drugs, cosmetics, and sunscreen products, in state and federal courts throughout the United States in cases arising out of various unfair business practices and false and deceptive advertising claims. In connection with those cases, Patti has been involved in reaching numerous settlements, resulting in millions of dollars of relief to the class members and changes in advertising to correct misleading claims going forward.

Patti is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association and Arizona Employment Lawyers Association.

Patti received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Urban Studies and Planning from the University of California, San Diego, in 1996. She received a full Trustee’s Scholarship for Academic Excellence from California Western School of Law, where she received her law degree in 1999.

Patti is admitted to practice law in California and Arizona, including being admitted to practice in all Federal District Courts in the states of California and Arizona, as well as the Ninth Circuit.