Types of Cases

• Employment discrimination or harassment based on race, gender (including sexual harassment), religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, disability, or pregnancy;
• Discrimination, harassment or retaliation because a person has taken disability leave, pregnancy or family medical leave;
• Retaliation against a person who made a discrimination or harassment complaint or who supported another’s discrimination or harassment complaint;
• Retaliation against a person for making a worker’s compensation claim;
• Unpaid wages, commissions or overtime
• Failure to give meal breaks or rest breaks;
• Breaching a written, oral or implied contract;
• Requiring non-competition clauses in contracts, including in severance agreements;
• Whistleblower retaliation;
• Wrongful termination;
• Invasion of privacy;
• Defamation;
• Freedom from violence in the workplace

Sample Cases

• Tipton-Whittingham v. City of Los Angeles - $4.85 Million settlement in sex discrimination and harassment suit against LAPD, also resulting in the Department completely revamping its anti-discrimination policies and procedures; upholding the award of catalyst attorney fees under State law (2004);
• Tavelman v. City of Huntington Park - $350,000 settlement for campaign of religious harassment against Jewish police officer (1997);
• Hampton v. NRG - $1,000,000 jury verdict in two-plaintiff racial harassment case, plus award of attorney’s fees and costs; settled during appeal.

Sample Pre-Trial Confidential Settlements and Judgments

• $2.5 million judgment in retaliation case
• $1.490 million settlement in racial harassment and retaliation case
• $950,000 settlement in unpaid overtime, meal and rest break violation class action
• $250,000 settlement in pregnancy discrimination case