Leonard H. Sansanowicz
Leonard Sansanowicz is an associate with LAVI & EBRAHIMIAN, LLP. He devotes his practice exclusively to representing employees in discrimination, harassment, wage and hour, and wrongful termination actions. He is a member of the Dialogues on Freedom and Saturday Seminar Committees of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) and Wage and Hour and Diversity Fellowship Committees of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA).
Mr. Sansanowicz has lectured about wage and hour class actions at a CELA-sanctioned event and has educated low-wage workers about their wage rights through the Pilipino Workers Center. He has written amicus letters on behalf of California’s workers and is co-author of the chapter on the Fair Labor Standards Act in the current edition of a practice guide published by the National Employment Lawyers Association and Lexis Nexis’s Matthew Bender series.
Mr. Sansanowicz has advised homeowners with mortgage problems through LACBA’s free foreclosure counseling clinic and has assembled care packages to ship to U.S. service members deployed overseas through the non-profit organization, Operation Gratitude. He has served as a judge in the ABA Section of Labor & Employment and National Civil Trial Competition law school trial advocacy competitions.
Through the Dialogues on Freedom program, co-sponsored by LACBA, the Los Angeles Superior Court, and the Los Angeles Unified School District, Mr. Sansanowicz has visited local high schools with judges and other attorneys to discuss the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. In his spare time, Mr. Sansanowicz has coached and refereed youth soccer.
Mr. Sansanowicz is fluent in Spanish.
Education
J.D., Loyola Law School, 2007
- Loyola Law Review of Los Angeles, Senior Articles Editor
- Member, Byrne Trial Advocacy Team
B.F.A., Summa Cum Laude, City College of New York, 1993
Publications
Employee Rights Litigation: Pleading and Practice, co-author with Steven G. Pearl, National Employment Law Association and Lexis Nexis
“Using Alter Ego to Your Client’s Advantage,” The Advocate, Volume 34, No. 11
Admitted to Practice
California; U.S. District Court, Central District of California
