Employment & discrimination lawyers

Felicia M. Medina represents workers in employment discrimination, equal-pay, retaliation, wage-and-hour, and class-action litigation.

Deborah K. Marcuse litigates employment discrimination, pay equity, Title IX, class actions, forced arbitration, immigration detention, and civil-rights claims.

David Sanford is Co-Founder and Chairman of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight and Co-Chair of its Executive Representation Practice Group.

James M. Finberg represents employees in class and collective actions involving equal pay, discrimination, wage-and-hour law, and voting rights.

Adam T. Klein represents workers in employment discrimination, wage-and-hour, digital-discrimination, and civil-rights class actions.

Genie Harrison represents employees and survivors in sexual-harassment, discrimination, retaliation, equal-pay, wrongful-termination, and sexual-abuse litigation.

Monique Olivier represents workers and classes in employment, wage-and-hour, ERISA, civil-rights, consumer, trial, and appellate litigation.

Michelle C. Yau represents employees and retirees in pension, 401(k), ESOP, and employee-benefits class actions.

Gregory Y. Porter represents ESOP and retirement-plan participants and argued the appeal affirming a $29.8 million Constellis ESOP judgment.

Jahan C. Sagafi is an Outten & Golden partner representing workers in employment class actions, pay-equity, wage-and-hour, and appellate matters.

Friedman challenged how Merrill Lynch distributed accounts and formed adviser teams. The race-discrimination case reached a $160 million settlement and changed workplace practices.

Shannon Liss-Riordan refuses to let a company’s name for its workers settle what it owes them, from the skycaps’ 2008 verdict and the $20 million Uber settlement to two thousand Twitter severance arbitrations.

Lori E. Andrus represents workers and consumers in equal-pay, employment class-action, complex plaintiff, pharmaceutical, and mass-tort litigation.

Cyrus Mehri is a founding partner of Mehri & Skalet and co-founder of Working IDEAL. His civil-rights practice addresses workplace systems and enforceable reform.

Kelly M. Dermody is a Lieff Cabraser partner and Managing Partner of its San Francisco office. Her practice includes civil-rights, employment and pay-equity litigation.

Eve H. Cervantez represents workers and consumers in class actions involving data breaches, pay equity, privacy, wages, and civil rights.

Lawrance A. Bohm is the founder of Bohm Law Group and a plaintiff-side employment trial lawyer in Sacramento.

Lawrence Organ is a founding partner of California Civil Rights Law Group and a plaintiff-side employment civil-rights trial lawyer.

R. Joseph Barton represents employees and plan participants in ESOP, pension, and ERISA litigation.

Randy Renick represents workers in wage-and-hour, living-wage, employment, and class-action litigation.

Claudia Center advances disability rights through workplace accommodation, education access, appellate advocacy, and systemic remedies.

Dan Feinberg represents plan participants in ERISA cases, from the en banc Abatie ruling to $32 million Tribune and $84 million Wells Fargo ESOP settlements.

Natalie Khawam Case took Green Beret Richard Stayskal’s missed-cancer case to Congress, which in 2019 opened military malpractice claims to active-duty troops.

Karla Gilbride litigates civil-rights and appellate matters involving disability access, workers’ rights, arbitration, federal enforcement, administrative law, and access to courts.