Nisha Verma

Nisha leads Dorsey’s California Labor & Employment group. She believes that a peaceful and productive employment relationship is always worth striving for, but understands those relationships can feel increasingly dysfunctional today, in the face of changing societal expectations of organizations, frivolous complaints, and abuse of California’s wage and hour regulations by the plaintiff’s bar. She works with her clients every day to manage through these challenges from a balanced perspective that keeps the organization’s goals and unique value proposition at the forefront. To that end, Nisha is always looking for the most innovative and efficient ways to provide solutions in response to her clients’ labor and employment needs.  

Nisha has delivered results for her clients with respect to all aspects of labor and employment law, including the following:

Advice and Counsel, Compliance Support, and Investigations: Nisha has a depth of experience in the most challenging issues employers face today, including sexual harassment or other sensitive investigations, employment terminations and severance negotiations, confidentiality, non-disparagement, and trade secret protections and limitations under state law, paid sick leave, kin care, and paid time off regulations, background check and drug testing requirements, regulatory filings including EEO-1, pay data, and affirmative action reports, leaves of absence including maternity and paternity leave, layoffs and closures, employment aspects of mergers and acquisitions and operational takeovers, prevailing wage, apprenticeship, and government contracting requirements, and several other complex matters. Nisha also advises physicians, attorneys, and executives with respect to their individual agreements or employment issues. 

Traditional Labor Negotiations and Disputes: Nisha has managed all aspects of union relations for employers, including organizing campaigns, representation petitions and related objections, unfair labor practice and other proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board, grievance administration and labor arbitrations, collective bargaining agreement negotiations and implementation, labor management meetings, picketing and strike mobilization, and other critical labor matters.

Employment Litigation, with an Emphasis on Wage and Hour Class and Representative Actions: Nisha is a seasoned litigator who has obtained results for clients through trial, arbitration, dispositive motions, and mediation. She handles a wide variety of litigation including single-plaintiff actions and contractual disputes, but specializes in managing complex wage and hour class actions and representative actions under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA), including matters relating to the effect of arbitration agreements on these claims.  In every case, Nisha conducts a thorough and in-depth evaluation early on and presents her clients with the full range of possible strategy options in order to ensure the litigation is handled in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

Prior to re-joining Dorsey’s Labor & Employment Group, Nisha served as Senior Legal Counsel at a multistate healthcare employer, where she implemented solutions to wide array of labor and employment matters, handled healthcare and government contract negotiation and dispute resolution, and obtained certifications as a compliance and privacy officer.