Joshua Buck represents employees in wage-hour collective and class actions. Over the last 13 years, Mr. Buck has recovered approximately $130 million in wage damages on behalf of employees across the nation. He has been at the forefront of many of the most recent developments in federal and state wage-hour litigation. Mr. Buck has been lead trial and appellate counsel with respect to numerous precedent-setting and noteworthy cases involving (i) compensable hours worked (Integrity Staffing Solutions, Inc. v. Busk, 574 U.S. 27 (U.S. 2014); Cadena, et al. v Customer Connexx, LLC, et al., 51 F.4th 831 (9th Cir. 2022) (distinguishing Busk), (ii) tip-pooling (Cesarz, et al. v. Wynn Las Vegas, LLC, et al., 816 F.3d 1080 (9th Cir. 2016)), (iii) sovereign immunity issues with FLSA actions (Walden v. Nevada, 945 F.3d 1088 (9th Cir. 2019); Echeverria v. State, 137 Nev. 486 (2021)), and (iv) private rights of action under state law (Neville v. Eighth Judicial District Court in and for Cnty. of Clark, 133 Nev. 777 (2017)).
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Buck served as a judicial clerk for Ron D. Parraguirre at the Nevada Supreme Court. Before joining the legal profession, Mr. Buck worked as a union organizer in the Los Angeles area, where he focused on improving the rights of employees in a variety of work environments.
Mr. Buck is the President of the Nevada Chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) and co-author of the Nevada Section of the ABA Section of Labor and Employment Law Wage and Hour Laws: A State-by-State Survey (3rd Ed.). In addition to his professional activities, Mr. Buck volunteers with a variety of organizations in the Lake Tahoe community.
