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EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION
Employment/Discrimination/Gender Bias
California Employee Rights
Sample Representative Matters
● Representing a Lions Gate/Renegade 83 executive for discrimination and wrongful termination while she was on approved maternity leave - click here to read.
● Representing a Netflix HR executive in an employment matter involving discrimination, retaliation, and disability and family leave rights.
● Representing a Google software engineer in a severance matter.
● Representing a Vizion employee in an employment matter involving termination while disabled and undergoing cancer treatment.
● Represented a Cedars Sinai doctor in a disability discrimination and retaliation matter.
● Represented a female Robinhood executive in an employment matter - click here to read.
● Represented a Disney executive in an employment discrimination matter - click here to read.
● Represented two female Vice executives in an employment matter - click here to read.
● Represented a female Providence executive in an employment matter.
● Represented a former AbbVie/Allergan executive in an employment matter involving sexual harassment and sexual orientation discrimination - click here to read.
equality, victim’s rights, torts
Advocacy for Victims of Sexual Assault/Violence
Assault and Intentional Torts
● Represented a female Netflix director in an employment matter involving maternity leave.
● Represented a former manager in a sex and pregnancy discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against Netflix - click here to read.
● Represented a female Skydance executive in an employment matter.
● Represented a female Netflix executive in an employment matter.
● Represented an employee in a sex/pregnancy discrimination, retaliation, and wrongful discharge case against Pearson Education for terminating her employment while she was 6 months pregnant.
● Represented a Twitter executive in an employment discrimination matter.
● Represented a female client in a sexual assault case against a commercial landlord, winning summary judgment on liability and resulting in a significant settlement award.
● Represented an employee in an age and disability discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against The Gap and Banana Republic, and that employee happens to be Michael’s mother - click here to read.
● Represented a male Twitter executive in an employment and disability matter.
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