Kaye Steinsapir's practice includes state and federal discrimination, harassment, retaliation and disability claims, as well as wage-and-hour class and collective actions.  Ms. Steinsapir has represented employers in multiple jurisdictions in federal and state courts, and in administrative proceedings before federal and state agencies. She also works closely with in-house counsel and HR personnel to provide general advice and counseling to clients on a wide variety of employment matters, including terminations, layoffs, wage-and-hour, disability, sexual harassment claims and prevention, and federal and state family and medical leave laws. She has represented clients in a wide variety of industries, including retail, manufacturing, financial services, consumer, entertainment and hospitality. 

Ms. Steinsapir also specializes in matters involving trade secrets, unfair competition, employee raiding and breaches of restrictive covenants.  She second-chaired a two-week federal court jury trial, in which the trial team obtained a multi-million dollar judgment against a former high-level employee who departed and formed a competing business.  Ms. Steinsapir was also involved in an arbitration in which a three-member panel enforced a “no-hire” agreement and issued a substantial award in favor of the firm’s client.

Prior to joining Bryan Cave, Ms. Steinsapir worked as an intern in the Employment Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice and as an extern to the Hon. Thomas B. Donovan, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge for the Central District of California.  She also worked as an intern in the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office and to U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein.

Bar and Court Admissions

California, 2002

United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, Northern and Southern Districts of California

Education

University of California-Los Angeles, J.D., 2002

Mills College, B.A., with honors, 1999

Publications

• “Tortious Interference in the Employment Context:  A State-By-State Survey,” American Bar Association Treatise, Contributing Editor, 2004-present
• “Duty of Loyalty: A State-By-State Survey,” American Bar Association Treatise, Contributing Editor, 2004-present
• “Covenants Not To Compete:  A State-By-State Survey,” American Bar Association Treatise, Contributing Editor, 2004-present
• “Trade Secrets:  A State-By-State Survey,” American Bar Association Treatise, Contributing Editor, 2004-present
• “‘Biosense’ Resoundingly Rejects Antisuit Injunctions,”  Los Angeles Daily Journal, with David H. Raizman, Feb. 21, 2006
• “In ‘Readylink,’ Panel Reaffirms Vitality of Trade Secrets Exception,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, with David H. Raizman, March 4, 2005
• “Even Narrower Noncompete Covenant May Be Void,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, with David H. Raizman, Jan. 5, 2004

Speeches and Seminars

• Speaker at CEB seminar entitled “Protecting Trade Secrets Before and During Litigation,” April 2008
• Speaker regarding recent developments in restrictive covenant and trade secret law at the 2004 Labor and Employment Law Section Annual Retreat sponsored by the L.A. County Bar Association

Civic Involvement and Honors

• Named as a 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 Southern California "Rising Star" by Law & Politics