In the last decade, employment lawyer Caleb Marker has relentlessly pursued innovative paths to justice for his clients – reshaping existing law and changing how employment cases are brought along the way.
Marker is a managing partner of national plaintiffs’ firm Zimmerman Reed, which he joined in 2015 as a founder of both its L.A. office and its mass arbitration practice. Marker went on to try the first merits arbitration in the country alleging that a gig economy worker was an employee rather than an independent contractor: a case brought on behalf of an Uber driver seeking employee status. Since then, Marker has represented thousands of gig economy workers – particularly drivers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft – who are seeking the benefits and protections of employee status in an employment landscape changing at a breakneck pace.
The law was unformed and untested in the area when Marker first pursued these cases, but in the ensuing years, the courts and the legislature have made new decisions – some of which help Marker’s clients, and some of which hurt them. His work in California is especially challenging since the passage of Proposition 22 in 2020, which classified rideshare and delivery drivers for companies like Uber, Lyft and Instacart as a new class of independent contractors rather than employees. While that battle roils in the Golden State, Marker and team are also pursuing justice for workers nationwide, in states including Illinois and...
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