Priyah Kaul

Priyah Kaul is an associate at Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP.  She works on complex litigation and prelitigation matters in federal and state court.

Prior to joining RBGG, Ms. Kaul served as a law clerk to the Honorable Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.  Previously, she was a litigation associate at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she maintained a diverse practice that included complex civil litigation, government investigations, and pro bono civil rights matters.

Ms. Kaul received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, where she was twice-published and served as an articles editor for the Michigan Journal of Law Reform.  She received her B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Kaul was an analyst for a multinational financial services company.

REPRESENTATIVE CASES

• Salvation Army National Cases.   RBGG together with co-counsel represents participants in Salvation Army adult rehabilitation centers and adult rehabilitation programs (“ARC workers”), who perform labor in support of the organization as a condition of their enrollment, in three lawsuits alleging that The Salvation Army violated federal law and many states’ laws when it failed to pay minimum wage to ARC workers. These lawsuits seek to hold The Salvation Army liable for these wages as the ARC workers’ employer.  The cases were filed on March 9, 2022: Michael Clancy,  et al. v. The Salvation Army, Case No. 1:22-cv-00979-LMM, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; Raymon Alvear, et al. v. The Salvation Army, Case No. 1:22-cv-01250, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia; and Robert Geiser, et al. v. The Salvation Army, Case No. 1:22-cv-01968, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.
• Spilman v. Salvation Army:  RBGG, along with co-counsel, filed this class action in San Francisco Superior Court in May 2021 against the Salvation Army alleging that it violates a host of California labor laws protecting patient-workers and fails to  properly compensate its employees.  The case seeks to hold  the Salvation Army accountable for its California adult drug and rehabilitation centers that unlawfully require thousands of people  to work long hours for essentially no compensation.  The case is Spilman et al. v. The Salvation Army, San Francisco Superior Court Case No. CGC-21-591364.