Litigation Practice and Results

We litigate contingency-fee cases in the following areas:

• Wrongful termination, including employment discrimination, failures to accommodate a disability, unlawful harassment and whistleblower retaliation;
• Breach of contract claims on behalf of executives, often related to equity compensation;
• Unpaid wages and unpaid overtime; and
• Class and representative actions for other violations of the California Labor Code.

Since 2015, our firm has recovered over $15,000,000 via settlements, judgments and awards from arbitrators. Some of our notable results include the following:

• $400,000+ final arbitration award at JAMS for failure to accommodate employee’s anxiety disorder;
• $750,000+ final arbitration award at JAMS for disability discrimination related to employee’s mental disability;
• Arbitration award at JAMS finding that employer engaged in whistleblower retaliation in violation of California Labor Code § 1102.5;
• Arbitration award at JAMS for failure to accommodate an employee’s physical disability;
• Judicial approval of $904,000 settlement of a representative action under the Private Attorneys General; and
• Reaching many confidential settlements of lawsuits that were pending in state and federal courts following denials of defense motions for summary judgment and/or motions in limine.