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Pete Wozniak is a partner in King & Spalding’s Global Human Capital & Compliance practice. He is a vigorous advocate and a candid and personable counselor who strives to help his clients navigate critical, high-stakes issues as painlessly and efficiently as possible. As a labor and employment litigator, he focuses his practice on defending complex workplace class and collective actions across the country.
A dyed-in-the-wool litigator, Pete represents clients in venues around the country and across a number of industries, including transportation and logistics, restaurants, retail, manufacturing, and temporary staffing. Handling a number of high profile matters, he partners with his clients to understand every aspect of their businesses, to help ease the impacts that litigation may have on their operations. His approach to litigation allows him to advise clients regarding strategies that maximize results in litigation and their overall business.
Among other areas, Pete defends employers throughout the United States in a variety of wage and hour class and collective actions and single plaintiff litigation, complex employment discrimination class actions and single plaintiff litigation, and multi-plaintiff Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) litigation. His experience spans the entire life cycle of workplace litigation, from investigation, through fact and expert discovery, trial, and post-trial appeals.
Before he began his legal practice, Pete was a sergeant in the U.S. Army Reserve, serving as a logistician.
J.D., Indiana University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
B.A., Binghamton University
California
Illinois
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Chicago Bar Association
October 12, 2021
King & Spalding Adds Six Partners to its Global Human Capital and Compliance Practice
January 11, 2023
FTC Proposes Nationwide Ban on Non-Competes
June 28, 2022
California's 2022 Proposed Labor and Employment Laws - Pending Legislation that Employers Should Monitor
January 19, 2022
Arbitration and PAGA Representative Actions: Supreme Court to Weigh In
October 12, 2021
King & Spalding Adds Six Partners to its Global Human Capital and Compliance Practice
January 11, 2023
FTC Proposes Nationwide Ban on Non-Competes
June 28, 2022
California's 2022 Proposed Labor and Employment Laws - Pending Legislation that Employers Should Monitor
January 19, 2022
Arbitration and PAGA Representative Actions: Supreme Court to Weigh In
October 12, 2021
King & Spalding Adds Six Partners to its Global Human Capital and Compliance Practice
J.D., Indiana University School of Law, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
B.A., Binghamton University
California
Illinois
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Chicago Bar Association