Ryne C. Posey

Mr. Posey’s regular compliance and counseling work includes advising on domestic and global pay equity reviews; conducting workplace investigations; preventing unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation; planning and implementing reductions in force; and developing, implementing and enforcing personnel policies and procedures. These policies and procedures include those regarding discrimination, harassment, retaliation, affirmative action and equal employment opportunities; medical leave and disability accommodation; wages and hours; exempt and non-exempt employee classification; independent contractor classification; hiring/firing; layoff notification; employee privacy; and workplace security.

In addition, Mr. Posey represents clients in litigation and alternative dispute resolution matters concerning wage and hour class, collective and representative actions; unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims; breach of contract claims; unfair competition claims; trade secret misappropriation claims; and traditional labor law disputes. His experience in this area includes dozens of appearances before courts, administrative agencies, arbitrators and mediators.

Mr. Posey also has extensive experience advising clients on the labor and employment aspects of business transactions, as well as structuring, negotiating and drafting employment agreements, consultant agreements, restrictive covenant agreements, arbitration agreements, severance agreements, collective bargaining agreements, and all labor and employment components of corporate transaction agreements. Mr. Posey was a key member of the deal teams recognized by the Daily Journal with California Lawyer Attorneys of the Year (CLAY) awards for innovative work on behalf of Livongo Health, Inc. in its $18.5 billion acquisition by Teladoc Health, Inc., the largest-ever M&A transaction in the digital health sector (2021); Intel Corporation in its acquisition of Mobileye N.V. (2018); and Broadcom Corporation in its acquisition by Avago Technologies (2016).

Mr. Posey has been repeatedly named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s list of Leaders of Influence: Labor & Employment Attorneys, named a Lawyer on the Fast Track by The Recorder and has been listed among the nation’s leading corporate employment attorneys by Lawdragon. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Skadden’s Black Lawyers for Diversity affinity network and a member of the Los Angeles office’s Hiring and Diversity committees, as well as a member of the Governance Board for Covenant House California, Advisory Board for Teach For America Los Angeles and Associates Board for KIPP SoCal Public Schools. Mr. Posey previously was a participant in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity’s Pathfinders Program, a seven-month leadership and professional development initiative.