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Mattera helps California employment-defense teams turn notices, employer records, wage-hour rules, deadlines, assumptions, and evidence gaps into attorney-reviewable work product your team can edit and approve.

Built for California employment-defense counsel. Mattera is not a law firm.
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The problem

A PAGA notice arrives. The clock starts.

The first decisions come early: what to ask the client for, what deadlines matter, what alleged theories are supported, what reasonable-steps evidence exists, and which exposure assumptions are safe enough to discuss.

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Decisions before the record is organized

Cure posture, client guidance, reserves, and early strategy often get discussed while the factual record is still scattered.

Earlydecisions need
reviewable support
02

The first pass is manual every time

Associates rebuild allegation charts, data requests, evidence binders, and exposure spreadsheets across Word, Excel, calendars, payroll exports, email, and firm templates.

Manualmatter by matter,
while the clock runs
03

Generic AI is not enough

A polished summary does not help if the partner still has to recreate the sources, calculations, and assumptions before relying on it.

Proofmatters more
than polish
The packet

One packet your team can inspect.

Mattera turns the notice and employer materials into a PAGA Notice Decision Packet: a source-linked first pass organized around the questions counsel already has to answer.

Allegation map.

Each alleged violation mapped to statute, theory, population, period, proof needed, data needed, and open issues.

Deadline and cure route.

Trigger dates, response windows, cure paths, assumptions, and owner-ready next steps stay beside their support.

Evidence register and gaps.

Documents, source spans, payroll rows, policies, audits, training, remediation, and missing records are tied to the issue they support or leave unresolved.

Packet previewSource-linked
AllegationsMapped
DeadlinesRouted
EvidenceLinked
GapsOpen
AssumptionsEditable
Record intake

Employer records in.
Reviewable evidence out.

Notices, payroll exports, wage statements, policies, audits, training records, and emails become a structured evidence layer with source spans intact.

Inside the packet

Built around the questions counsel has to answer.

Exposure assumptions workbook

Directional ranges, counted employees and pay periods, caps, offsets, caveats, and row-level examples your attorney can edit.

Ranges Assumptions Caveats
Exposure assumptions - illustrativeSynthetic
§ 226.7range
§ 226(a)range
§ 510range
§ 2802range
§ 203range

Targeted data request

A client request tied to the allegations, not a generic payroll dump. Each requested file carries the reason it matters.

Reasonable-steps tracker

Policies, audits, training, corrective action, and remediation organized for counsel's review, with gaps separated from support.

Evidence register

Documents, source spans, payroll rows, and wage-statement examples linked to the issue they support or leave unresolved.

Red-team page

What may be unsupported, missing, stale, or unsafe to rely on appears plainly before your team decides what to use.

How it works

Review beats rebuild.

  1. Step 01
    Send a notice or closed matter
    MANAGED INTAKE
  2. Step 02
    Mattera builds the packet
    SOURCE-LINKED
  3. Step 03
    Counsel edits assumptions
    RERUN AFFECTED SECTIONS
  4. Step 04
    Approve, reject, or rerun
    ATTORNEY CONTROL

Mattera prepares structured work product.

Your team reviews, edits, approves, rejects, and reruns assumptions. Mattera supplies computation and reviewable support; counsel makes the legal determinations.

Proof standard

Derived or quoted. No third category.

Every sentence in a Mattera packet is a conclusion from encoded rules, a pointer to the record, or an explicit assumption, gap, or open issue.

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Doors into the packet: derived from encoded rules or quoted from the record.

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Third category. Unsupported statements become assumptions, gaps, or open issues.

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Attorney-controlled review loop: edit an assumption and rerun the affected section.

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The test: can your team review the packet faster than rebuilding the first pass?

Questions

What defense teams ask first.

A PAGA Notice Decision Packet: allegation map, deadline and cure route, targeted data request, evidence register, reasonable-steps tracker, exposure assumptions workbook, partner memo, and red-team page. It is work product for attorney review, not a client-facing legal determination.
No. The deliverable is a structured packet, workbook, and evidence register. The point is not a conversational answer; it is a first pass counsel can inspect faster than rebuilding from scratch.
Client data is not pooled across firms. Matter data is not used to train shared models. Redacted or closed-matter reviews are available, and live matters use defined access, retention, and deletion windows.
No. Your team reviews the support, edits assumptions, rejects unsupported points, approves language, and reruns affected sections. Mattera does not decide what to rely on, send, file, or argue.
No. Mattera is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice. Mattera prepares attorney-reviewable work product; counsel makes all legal determinations.
Start with a fictional sample packet or a redacted closed-matter replay. The useful test is simple: can your team review the packet faster than rebuilding the first pass?
Early access

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Send a redacted notice or review a fictional sample packet. We will show the allegation map, deadline route, evidence register, reasonable-steps tracker, exposure assumptions, and source links.

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For California employment-defense counsel. Counsel makes all legal determinations.