Mr. Icaza provides advice and representation to employers on personnel policies and procedures and on the full range of employment laws including wage and hour laws, drafting employment handbooks and forms, the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Title VII, and hiring an firing issues.

Mr. Icaza's extensive litigation experience encompasses claims for discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. He has practiced before the Federal District of California and several California state courts. He has tried several cases to conclusion. He was a consultant for the Plaintiffs in Frank v. United Air Lines, Inc., 216 F.3d 845 (9th Cir. 200), certiorari denied 121 S. Ct. 1247, in which the  Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment against female flight attendants, and held that United Air Lines's weight policy for flight attendants violated Title VII. The damages phase of that case is pending, but damages are expected to run into the tens of millions of dollars.

Mr. Icaza lectures frequently on labor and employment matters before management, union, student and legal audiences, including the Northern California Human Resources Association, the New America Foundation, PALM (Problems of Addiction in Labor and Management), the Bar Association of San Francisco and San Francisco high schools. He wrote, with Jennifer Randlett, Employee Assistance Programs: What Your Clients Should Know, California Labor & Employment Law Quarterly, Vol. 14, No. 4.

Bar Activities

• Bar Association of San Francisco. Chair, Labor and Employment Section, BASF's Barristers Club. Was Vice Chair in 2000.
• Alameda County Bar Association
• La Raza Lawyers Association, Alameda Chapter
• Consumer Attorneys of California

Community Activities

• Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Alameda County, Member, Board of Directors