Caleb Marker, who helped found the Los Angeles outpost of Minneapolis plaintiff’s law firm Zimmerman Reed LLP, has been named one of the firm’s three managing partners.

Marker and June Hoidal in the Minneapolis office join Gordon Rudd Jr., also in Minneapolis, to lead the firm’s operations. Marker has been with the firm since 2015, when it entered Los Angeles with an office in the Carthay neighborhood. There he paved way for the firm’s mass arbitration practice and its support of so-called gig workers.

“California is a good market for what we do,” Marker said. “I think the legislature and the courts in California have always been very supportive of the type of public-interest law that we practice.”

The firm also has an office in Phoenix.

Prior to joining Zimmerman Reed, Marker had worked with the firm as co-counsel on cases. 

Once on board, he created the firm’s arbitration practice and successfully challenged ridesharing company Uber on its misclassification of gig employees in 2016. Broadly, Marker said he and the firm seek to represent the most vulnerable employees in the workforce.

“We’re looking to protect minimum-wage workers for the most part, and not highly compensated professionals,” he said.

With the appointments, Marker and Hoidal take the place of Carolyn Anderson, who retired recently. Founder Bucky Zimmerman, who was also a managing partner, died in 2019. Rudd was named managing partner in 2007, alongside Anderson.

“This new chapter in our leadership is especially exciting as our firm celebrates its 40th anniversary,” Rudd said in a statement. “I look forward to leading the firm together as we continue to expand and build on our success.”