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King & Siegel LLP: A Los Angeles Firm’s Genuine Austin Office

King & Siegel LLP is, first and foremost, a Los Angeles employment firm — founded there in 2018 by Julian Burns King and Elliot Siegel, both of whom trained at major national litigation firms before turning to plaintiff-side employee representation. It has since opened a real, physically staffed office in Austin at 1700 S. Lamar Blvd., not merely a marketing landing page, and Texas-licensed attorneys handle matters there. Readers should know the California origin and headline case results (including a firm-wide “$120M+” recovery figure advertised on the firm’s national site) largely reflect the firm’s broader California practice rather than Austin-specific results.

At a Glance: Austin Employment Lawyer Firm Overview

I. A California Plaintiff’s Firm That Expanded to Texas

Julian Burns King, a Harvard Law graduate who began her career at Quinn Emanuel and Paul Weiss (two major national litigation firms), co-founded King & Siegel in 2018 after helping recover more than $750 million in high-stakes commercial litigation on the defense side. The firm built its reputation representing California employees before expanding to Texas with Texas-licensed attorneys handling matters before the Texas Workforce Commission, the EEOC, and Texas state and federal courts. Megan Evans, part of the firm’s team with a University of Texas at Austin background and prior experience with the Equal Justice Center and Disability Rights Texas locally, represents the kind of Texas-rooted staffing the Austin office draws on.

II. No Board Certification Identified for the Texas Team

Awesome Attorneys did not find a current Texas Board of Legal Specialization certification for the firm’s Texas-licensed attorneys, and does not use “specialist” language for this office as a result. The firm’s marketing emphasizes its founders’ pedigree (Harvard, Columbia, NYU law degrees; training at large national litigation firms) rather than Texas-specific board certification.

III. Practice Concentration: What This Austin Employment Attorney Firm Handles

The Austin office handles discrimination (including age discrimination), harassment, wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, equal pay violations, and whistleblower retaliation under the Texas Whistleblower Act, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the False Claims Act. The firm’s practice-area pages are built out extensively for the Austin market specifically, suggesting active investment in the Texas practice rather than a token expansion.

IV. Track Record

Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome. Employment settlements are frequently confidential, which limits what any firm can publish about individual case values.

Awesome Attorneys was not able to confirm whether either matter above was litigated by the firm’s Texas team specifically or originated from the firm’s California practice; given the firm’s LA headquarters and founding history, these are more likely California results presented as firm-wide achievements. This distinction matters for Austin clients evaluating what track record actually applies to their local office, and is disclosed here directly.

V. Client Voice

Awesome Attorneys did not identify Austin-specific, independently posted client reviews at the time of writing. The firm advertises a 10.0 Avvo rating and Super Lawyers Rising Star recognition for its attorneys, credentials that Awesome Attorneys was able to independently confirm exist for founder Julian Burns King specifically (Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2018) but that are presented at the firm level without specifying which individual attorneys, Texas or California, hold them.

VI. Beyond the Courtroom

Julian Burns King recently prevailed before the California Court of Appeal in Malloy v. Superior Court, a published decision on venue rights for remote workers — a case with growing relevance as remote work complicates where employment claims can be filed, though it is a California appellate matter rather than a Texas one. The firm offers Spanish-speaking attorneys and staff.

VII. Recognition

Peer-reviewed and independently conferred credentials: Julian Burns King’s Super Lawyers Rising Star selection every year since 2018 (an honor the designation restricts to no more than 3% of attorneys under 40), via Thomson Reuters’ peer-review process. This recognition applies to King specifically rather than confirmed for the Texas-based team.

Marketing-program recognition, distinguished here rather than blended in: the firm’s advertised 10.0 Avvo rating, a self-reported directory score rather than an independent peer-review credential.

VIII. The Texas Legal Backdrop

Texas is an at-will employment state, with discrimination and retaliation claims running through Title VII, the ADA, and the ADEA federally and the Texas Commission on Human Rights Act (Texas Labor Code Chapter 21) at the state level, requiring a Texas Workforce Commission charge within 180 days. For the firm’s whistleblower work specifically, the Texas Whistleblower Act (Texas Government Code Chapter 554) protects public employees, while Sarbanes-Oxley and the federal False Claims Act provide separate protections for private-sector and government-fraud whistleblowers, respectively. Wage claims run through the federal Fair Labor Standards Act and the Texas Payday Act, Texas Labor Code Chapter 61.

IX. Awesome Attorneys Assessment: Weighing This Austin Employment Lawyer

This firm’s genuine strength is bringing big-firm litigation pedigree (Harvard, Quinn Emanuel, Paul Weiss backgrounds) and a large-firm’s resources to individual Texas employees, backed by a real, physically staffed Austin office rather than a marketing-only expansion. Julian Burns King’s independently confirmed Super Lawyers recognition and appellate court win add genuine credibility to the parent firm.

The fair caveat: this is fundamentally a California firm with a Texas office, and the headline case results and awards advertised across its marketing are largely tied to its California practice and founders rather than independently verified Texas-specific outcomes. Prospective Austin clients should ask directly which attorney would handle their matter and that attorney’s specific Texas litigation history, rather than assuming the firm’s national numbers reflect local experience.

X. Methodology & Sourcing

This profile was compiled from the firm’s own website (kingsiegel.com), including its national and Austin-specific practice-area pages and attorney biography pages; Yelp’s business listing confirming a physical Austin address; and independent confirmation of Julian Burns King’s Super Lawyers Rising Star recognition. Case results, client counts, and awards are the firm’s own published claims unless independently sourced and attributed as such, and the profile explicitly flags where firm-wide claims could not be confirmed as Texas-specific. Statutory citations were checked against the Texas Labor Code and Texas Government Code. No case results, credentials, or quotes were invented.

Publisher Disclosure & Independence Notice

Awesome Attorneys is an independent legal directory and editorial publication. This profile was not paid for, commissioned, or reviewed by King & Siegel LLP prior to publication. Awesome Attorneys may in the future offer sponsored placements clearly labeled as such, but no payment of any kind determines inclusion in, or the content of, this editorial profile. This article is for informational purposes only, does not constitute legal advice, and does not create an attorney-client relationship between the reader and King & Siegel LLP or Awesome Attorneys.