Sylvia Bokyung St. Clair

Employment Counseling, Investigations & Audits

She regularly advises on best practices to help clients avoid disputes and ensure compliance with evolving legal requirements. Sylvia provides strategic advice on complex employment issues and conducts sensitive internal investigations and audits involving hiring practices, employment policies and practices, wage-and-hour pay practices, pay transparency, child labor, immigration, and California employer privacy law compliance.

Sylvia has extensive experience leading the defense of investigations brought by federal and state agencies, including the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security.

Employment Litigation

Sylvia has significant experience representing companies nationally in complex employment disputes and commercial litigation matters, achieving successful litigation outcomes in both federal and state courts, arbitrations, and before administrative agencies, involving:

• Discrimination
• Harassment
• Wrongful termination
• Wage-and-hour compliance
• Whistleblower claims
• Job-protected leave
• Trade secret misappropriation
• Breach-of-contract claims
• Immigration-related claims

Additionally, she conducts trainings and frequently lectures on worksite enforcement actions, preventing sexual harassment, and other hot topics in employment law.

Previous Experience

Sylvia’s passion for employee relations and human resources stems from her work in two family-run businesses and a decade-long career in hospitality management, where she and her team were widely recognized for outstanding service and high-achieving standards and policies. Today, guided by years of experience on the front lines, she devotes her legal career to partnering with employers to focus on practical solutions.