Employment
Executive Negotiations & Disputes
- Current Executive Vice President claimed discrimination & retaliation in oil industry
- Executive claimed wrongful termination and breach of contract in computer industry
- Executives claimed lost stock options in tech company merger
- Former City Attorney claimed breach of contract and fraud
- Former President & CEO claimed breach of covenant of good faith & fair dealing and breach of implied contract
- Former CEO claimed same sex sexual harassment against owner
- General Counsel of fortune 50 company negotiated severance
- High-level 20-year sales executive claimed age and race discrimination in insurance industry
- High-level 30-year executive claimed disability discrimination and invasion of privacy
- Law firm partner claimed breach of fiduciary duty and ERISA violations by law firm
- Managing partner claimed wrongful termination, age and gender discrimination
- Severance negotiations for professors, doctors, lawyers and executives
Multiple Plaintiff Disputes
- 3-plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination and promissory fraud, post-trial, pre-appeal
- 5-plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination at law firm
- 5-plaintiffs’ claims for race discrimination - failure to promote at aerospace company
- 5-plaintiffs’ claims for breach of oral contract regarding hedge fund start-up
- 6-plaintiffs’ claims for racial and sexual harassment at airline company
- 7-plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination at oil company
- 7-plaintiffs’ claims for sexual harassment at communications company
- 8-plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination involving five underlying lawsuits
- 8-plaintiffs’ claims for race discrimination at railroad company
- 9-plaintiffs’ claims for racial harassment at advertising company
- 17-plaintiffs’ claims for racial harassment at national beverage company
- 18-plaintiffs’ claims for fraud and ERISA violations at cosmetics company
- 22-plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination and ERISA violations at multi-national energy conglomerate
- 26-plaintiffs’ claims for ERISA violations at steel company
- 50+ plaintiffs’ claims for age discrimination in reduction in workforce at investment firm
- 50+ plaintiffs’ claims for wage & hour violations after class decertified
Single Plaintiff Disputes
- Age Discrimination
- Post-trial $5 million verdict, pre-appeal
- Post-trial $3.8 million verdict, pre-appeal including claims for wrongful termination and violation of due process
- Current employee, pre-litigation
- Breach of Contract
- Carried interest compensation dispute with hedge fund
- Breach of severance contract
- Breach of contract with cross-claims for return of unvested stock options
- Denial of tenure in academia
- Breach of oral contract re hedge fund start-up
- Breach of non-compete agreement
- Disability Discrimination
- Disability discrimination and harassment claims against healthcare company
- Failure to accommodate and engage in the interactive process
- Disability discrimination and wrongful demotion, post-trial 7-figure verdict
- Wrongful termination claim while on protected leave of absence
- Violation of the Family Medical Leave Act
- Disability discrimination, constructive discharge, and negligence claims by construction company employee while assigned to Middle-East office
- AIDS discrimination claim against clothing retailer
- Fraud / Fraudulent Inducement in the following industries:
- Academia
- Agricultural Biotechnology
- Brokerage
- Energy
- Legal
- Semi-conductor
- Sports
- Gender Discrimination / Harassment
- Glass ceiling claims at investment firms, law firms, and in the computer and data systems industries
- Gender discrimination claim based on motherhood at television network
- Pregnancy discrimination claims against: aviation staffing company, grocery chain, investment firm, law firm, scientific research firm, and telephone company
- Reverse gender discrimination claim in academia and healthcare industries
- Gender discrimination claims in the following industries: academia, aerospace, airline, banking, broadcast news, computer, investment, government, law firms, newspaper and software
- National Origin Discrimination
- Islamic employee challenged clothing policy at amusement park
- Failure to promote claim by non-Israeli against Israeli owned company
- Failure to promote claim based on gender and national origin against City
- National origin discrimination claims in the following industries: aeronautics, banking, computer, construction, healthcare, insurance, real estate
- Race Discrimination / Harassment
- Race discrimination claim against foreign bank
- Racial harassment and PTSS claims against co-worker and supervisor at construction company
- EEOC race discrimination claim against railroad
- Race discrimination, defamation, and fraudulent inducement claims against tech company
- Failure to accommodate disability, race discrimination, and failure to promote associate to partner at law firm
- Race discrimination claims in the following industries: aerospace, broadcasting, energy, forest products, legal, medical, motion picture, oil & gas, pharmaceutical, and recording.
- Sexual Assault / Battery
- Minor babysitter's claims for negligence and sexual battery against father of children she babysat
- Students’ claims for Title IX violations against universities
- Medical interns' claims for sexual assault by supervising doctor
- Television studio employee’s claim for sexual assault by star of television show
- 3-plaintiffs' claims for sexual harassment, assault and battery, and defamation against television studio and star of television show
- Sexual Harassment
- 57-plaintiffs' claims for illegal video-taping of female employees in changing room
- Current employee's claim for sexual harassment by co-employee
- Same-sex sexual harassment claim against county
- Sexual harassment, discrimination, and defamation claims in academia
- 9-plaintiffs’ harassment claims based on gender and national origin against pest control company – mediated with the assistance of an interpreter
- Sexual harassment and rape claims against hotel company
- Sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and retaliation claims against brewing company
- Sexual Orientation Discrimination claims among the following professionals:
- Human Resources
- Banking
- Financing
- Whistleblower Disputes involving Sarbanes Oxley claims, CA and Federal Whistleblower Protection Act, CA False Claims Act, FEHA, etc. in the following industries: academia, aerospace, banking, construction, government, and technology
- Wrongful Termination / Constructive Discharge
- Wrongful demotion claim against shipping company
- Constructive discharge and retaliation claims after objecting to accounting practices at tech company
- $12 million claim for Breach of Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing and unvested stock options
- Wrongful termination and breach of contract claims arising out of purchase of majority interest in plaintiff’s company
- Wrongful termination, breach of contract, and pregnancy discrimination claims against television production company – post $5 million verdict, pre-appeal
- Fraudulent inducement and wrongful termination claims against toy manufacturer
- Wrongful termination and invasion of privacy claims against newspaper
- Constructive discharge and whistleblowing claims against laboratory
Class Actions
- ERISA class action in aerospace industry – post trial on liability
- Breach of contract claim regarding hardship/danger pay for employees working in the Middle East during the Gulf War
- Title VII gender discrimination and harassment claims against insurance company
- 358 plaintiff collective age discrimination claim against computer company
- EEOC hiring discrimination claim against University
- Failure to promote claim based on race and/or national origin discrimination against energy company
- Gender discrimination claim by female financial advisors
- California Family Leave Act claim against telecommunications company
- Hiring Discrimination claim against national restaurant chain
- EEOC equal pay claim against travel company
- Title VII age discrimination claim against oil company
- Fraud claim re company’s deductions for employees’ life insurance policy
- WARN Act claim against food producer
- Race discrimination claim against financial services company
- Equal Pay Act claim against beverage company
- Race discrimination claim based on failure to promote or hire against energy company
- Age discrimination claim based on adverse impact in hiring against insurance company
Wage & Hour Class Actions
- FLSA case certified, then de-certified and settled as 160+ plaintiff case
- 27 cases brought in 10 states and a FLSA claim for over 200,000 employees
- Over 500 wage & hour class actions alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act and/or violations of State Labor Codes across the country.
- Many of these actions included claims stemming from misclassification of managers, assistant managers, supervisors, officers, technical specialists, analysts, researchers, and other professionals in the banking, insurance, healthcare, computer, mortgage, real estate, and investment industries.
- Class actions have also been brought on behalf of employees who work in production, farming, construction, oil and gas, retail, restaurant, hospitality, grocery, food and beverage, staffing, telecommunications, sales, transportation, gaming, private security, health club, news, and higher education. These cases have included a variety of claims:
- Overtime and Off the Clock claims: meal & rest breaks, donning and doffing, bag checks, security checks, clock-in time, preparation time, reporting time, commute time, training time, mandatory meetings
- Reimbursement Claims: business expenses, uniform maintenance, mandatory uniform purchase, uniform deposit, travel time and expenses
- Suitable Seating Claims
- Tip claims: tip pooling, tip policy
- Unpaid Wage Claims: minimum wage, prevailing wage, timely payment of wages upon termination, calculation and payment of commissions, auto-deduct policy, piece rate, calculation of overtime wages
- Vacation pay claims: unpaid vacation, California vacation policy
- Work Week claims: fluctuating work week, on-call shifts, rounding, split shifts, alternative work weeks