Wage Counsel Group

For defense counsel

Refer it to your compliance clients. License it across your book.

PunchGuard flags meal and rest break violations before payroll runs. Refer it to compliance clients as a standalone tool, or license it across your book and offer it as part of your own practice. PunchGuard is built for one type of client: employers who intend to act on what it finds. It's not a substitute for remediation, and it's not for clients who want to look without following through. Built by a California attorney who personally ran the timekeeping systems these cases are built on.

Won't this just create evidence against my client?

It's the first question every defense attorney asks. PunchGuard flags the violation before payroll runs — so the meal or rest premium gets paid in that same pay period, before wage statements are final. It doesn't create a record of a problem. It solves the problem before it becomes a penalty.

PunchGuard

Refer it, or license it as your own offering

Run PunchGuard every pay period and catch violations while they're still fixable — before payroll runs, not after discovery. $99/month base plus $3/employee.

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For law firms

Turn compliance monitoring into a billable service

License PunchGuard across your book and get portfolio-level visibility into every client company you onboard — which clients are flagged, how often, and where to reach out before a pay-period issue becomes a lawsuit. Built for firms who want to move from reactive defense to proactive advisory work, billed on your own terms.

Currently onboarding founding firms on a pilot basis — pricing and dashboard features are being finalized with early partners.

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Also available

For active matters

Full-Scope Forensic Audit

The WCG Forensic Engine is built for one kind of client: one that wants to know its real number so it can be fixed — not one looking for a report to shelve. A full-scope forensic audit, powered by the WCG Forensic Engine — employee-level violation detection with exposure figures, applied to a matter's record set.

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Litigation Support

Record review, damage modeling, PAGA quantification, and rebuttal analysis under attorney-client privilege.

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8,762
PAGA notices filed in 2025–2026
25
New California wage and hour lawsuits daily
90%
Of audited businesses carry violations

Case study — Los Angeles office

$251,834 in modeled exposure before remediation

A 40-employee professional office believed it was compliant. Line-item analysis of two years of timeclock data surfaced systematic meal-period failures and the derivative penalties that follow.

$251,834
Modeled exposure
1,268
Meal break violations
$167,400
Waiting time penalties

Built by someone who ran these systems

20+ years as in-house counsel and Director of Operations — personally running the timekeeping platforms, payroll systems, and HR infrastructure that sit at the center of these disputes.

Operational depth

Ran the actual systems that generate the records in dispute — not just the legal analysis of them.

Licensed California attorney

Active State Bar. Delivered through ELE Consulting, Inc.

Pay-period precision

Transaction-level detection. Not quarterly lookbacks or sample audits.

5–7 day turnaround

Written estimate within 48 hours at no charge. Work begins after signed engagement letter.