Leonard H. Sansanowicz is the principal attorney of Sansanowicz Law Group, P.C., whose practice is devoted to protecting the rights of California employees. He has spent his entire career prosecuting harassment, discrimination, defamation, whistleblower retaliation, wrongful termination, and wage and hour/wage theft claims, both individual and representative actions. His most rewarding and fulfilling work is obtaining justice for his clients.
Mr. Sansanowicz is a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment Section of the California Lawyers Association (CLA, formerly State Bar), a member of the Executive Board of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA, plaintiff’s employment bar), and a Section Officer of the Labor and Employment Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). He was a contributing columnist to the CLA Labor and Employment Law Review for over six years, co-authoring the Wage and Hour Case Notes.
Mr. Sansanowicz has been named a Super Lawyer. This peer-reviewed selection process has chosen the top 5% of all practitioners in a given geographic region (Southern California) in Employment Litigation each year since 2019. Before that, he was selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star, a peer-review process that selected the top 2.5% of all attorneys in a geographic area under 40 or with fewer than ten years of practice for six straight years until he was termed out. For the final four consecutive years as a Rising Star (2015-2018), he was named to the Super Lawyers Up and Coming 100 List, meaning the top 100 attorneys to watch from all Rising Stars.
Mr. Sansanowicz is fluent in Spanish. He has coached and refereed youth soccer, served as a law school mock trial competition judge, participated in various outreach programs for workers and students, and enjoys spending time with his family, including his dog, Bruno (his screensaver photo on Zoom). He also volunteers as a settlement officer for non-complex employment law cases through the Resolve Law L.A. program, a virtual mandatory settlement conference program offered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court. He is a Los Angeles sports fanatic (Lakers, Dodgers, Rams, LAFC, Kings) and probably spends too much time thinking about sports. Maybe. Probably.
- Employment Litigation, 2019-2025
- Up and Coming 100, 2015-2018
- Rising Star, 2013-2018
- Executive Committee, Labor and Employment Law Section – Member
- Chair, Annual Wage and Hour Conference (2025)
- Co-Chair, Education Committee
- California Labor & Employment Law Review – contributing author (2015-2021)
- Executive Board – Member (2018-present)
- CELA Torch Award – 2019
- CELA Torch Award – 2018
- Committee Service Award – 2017
- Worker Outreach Committee – Chair (2014-2017)
- Current member of the following committees:
- Legislative Committee
- Racial Justice Committee
- Wage and Hour Committee
- Women’s Committee
- Worker Outreach Committee
- Labor and Employment Section – Treasurer
- Executive Committee, Labor and Employment Section – Member
- Symposium Committee – Chair (2022-23, 43rd Annual L&E Law Symposium)
- Saturday Seminar Committee – Co-Chair (2016-2019)
- Settlement officer
- CLA webinar (2023), moderator, “PAGA Claims After Adolph v Uber Technologies”
- CAALA Vegas (2021), panelist, “Best Practices in Employment Arbitration”
- LACBA Annual Symposium (2020), panelist, Year in Review
- LACBA Saturday Seminar (2020), moderator, “A View From the Bench” (L.A. Superior Court judges roundtable)
- CELA Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar (2017), moderator, “Discovery Truths: Alternative Fact-Checking and Other Winning Strategies”
- CELA Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar (2016), moderator, “All I Needed to Know About Arbitration I Learned Before Lunch”
- CELA Advanced Wage and Hour Seminar (2015), moderator, “Emerging Trends and Legislative Update”
- CELA Annual Conference (2014), moderator, “Electronically Stored Information and Ethical Issues in Discovery”
- LACBA Saturday Seminar (2012), moderator, “Everything You Always Wanted to Ask About California Employment Law But Were Afraid to Ask”
- Beverly Hills Bar Ass’n, Labor & Employment Section (2012), panelist, “When Industry Practice and Labor Law Collide: Hot Topics in Entertainment and Employment Law”
- Wage and Hour Case Notes, CLA Labor & Employment Law Review
- Fair Labor and Standards Act, practice guide published by the National Employment Lawyers Association and Lexis Nexis’s Matthew Bender series
- “Arbitration Hypnosis: Using Hidden Gems,” The Advocate Magazine, Volume 50, No. 9 (September 2022)
- “The Nature of PAGA Actions,” The Advocate Magazine, Volume 49, No. 5 (May 2021)
