About John

John is a shareholder and founder of Scheppach Bauer PC.  John has been practicing law for over 12 years, specializing in employment litigation.  John represents clients in all types of employment law matters.  

John has extensive experience representing clients in single and multi-plaintiff employment litigation, wage-and-hour class actions, representative actions, and administrative matters. John also regularly provides day-to-day counseling and advice regarding workplace practices and personnel matters, as well as prepares all types of employment-related documents, including, employment agreements, workplace policies, severance/separation agreements, and arbitration agreements.

John originally started his legal career in 2005 at the law firm of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP and worked there as an employment attorney until 2007.  Thereafter, John had the distinction of clerking for multiple judges at the federal and state levels.  John clerked for the Honorable Frederick Kapala, a federal district judge for the Northern District of Illinois, the Honorable Oliver Wanger, a federal district judge in the Eastern District of California, and at the California Court of Appeal, Third Appellate District, working first as an appellate attorney who served the court at large and then as a chambers attorney for Justice William Murray.  In all, John has nearly four years working on behalf of the judiciary on a wide array of litigation and appellate matters covering numerous areas of law and, as a result, has rare insight and brings specialized knowledge to the table for each client.

After his judicial clerkships, John returned to Allen Matkins in November 2011, resuming his private practice in employment law.  In March 2016, John and his wife Julia formed Scheppach Law, Inc., a full-service employment law firm.  John worked as shareholder of Scheppach Law, Inc. until March 2018, when Scheppach Bauer PC was formed.

Education

John earned his B.A. in Communication Studies from the University of San Diego in 2002, graduating magna cum laude with an honors diploma.  He earned his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2005, where he was honored with Order of the Coif.

Bar Admissions
California Oregon
Indiana (inactive)

Court Admissions
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
U.S. District Court, Southern District of California
U.S. District Court, Central District of California
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of California
U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
All California State Courts All Oregon State Courts

Professional Accolades/Activities
Selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers (2019)

Orange County Bar Foundation, Associate Board Member (2015 – 2016)