Employment & discrimination lawyers

Anne McGinness Kearse litigates asbestos, household exposure, occupational disease, product liability, catastrophic workplace injury, and wrongful-death claims.

Kai H. Richter litigates pension, 401(k), ESOP, and health-benefit matters at trial and on appeal for employees and plan participants.

Michael Rubin represents workers and benefits claimants in appellate, class, and public-interest litigation.

Joseph M. Sellers is a Cohen Milstein partner and founder and co-chair of its Civil Rights & Employment practice. He argued Wal-Mart v. Dukes.

Sharon McGowan leads policy and litigation at the Human Rights Campaign. Her civil-rights work includes the trial victory in Schroer v. Billington.

Anne B. Shaver represents workers and authors in pay-equity, labor-antitrust, retirement-benefit, and AI copyright class actions.

Edgar N. Romano represents workers in occupational-disease, asbestos, industrial-exposure, and World Trade Center claims, including administrative and appellate review.

Christine E. Webber is a Cohen Milstein partner and co-chair of its Civil Rights & Employment practice. Her work includes class litigation challenging discriminatory screening tools.

Jerry Schlichter is the founding and co-managing partner of Schlichter Bogard, known for pioneering ERISA excessive-fee litigation and three unanimous Supreme Court victories.

Noreen Farrell leads Equal Rights Advocates, pursuing gender equity through Title IX litigation, equal-pay legislation, and workplace civil-rights advocacy.

Adanté Pointer tries civil-rights and employment cases involving police shootings, wrongful death, video evidence, municipal liability, and discrimination.

Katherine Rosenfeld litigates New York civil-rights and class actions involving police misconduct, disability and language access, prison abuse, pregnancy restraints, employment, and immigrants’ rights.

Cary S. McGehee has represented Flint residents since 2015, from the Mays class action and $626.25 million settlement to the negligence case against the EPA.

Beth E. Terrell represents consumers, homeowners, and workers in class actions involving calls, mortgage servicing, credit reporting, and pay practices.

Mari Newman tries and appeals civil-rights and employment cases involving police use of force, jail and prison abuse, disability rights, medical care in custody, and pregnancy protections.

Oakland civil-rights lawyer who brought the Riders police-misconduct case and enforced Oakland’s 2003 police-reform agreement in federal court until 2026.

Timothy P. O’Brien litigates Pittsburgh civil-rights cases involving police misconduct, municipal custom, jail abuse, recording rights, and constitutional appeals; he also serves as a neutral.

Jennifer D. Bennett argued GEO Group v. Menocal and Flowers Foods v. Brock, appellate cases examining government contractors, forced arbitration, interlocutory review, and whether workers’ claims remain in court.

Matthew W.H. Wessler handles plaintiff appeals involving retirement plans, arbitration, consumer lending, antitrust, and access to the courts.

The question was how Anthropic obtained the books. Geman served as co-lead class counsel for authors in the copyright case that reached a $1.5 billion settlement.

Dan Stormer represented Burmese villagers against Unocal over forced labor on the Yadana pipeline and litigates civil rights cases from Pasadena.

Siddhartha H. Rathod tries civil-rights cases involving police misconduct, wrongful death, failure to intervene, municipal liability, disability rights, and constitutional claims.

Julia Yoo tries and appeals civil-rights cases involving police use of force, custodial medical care, disability access, employment rights, sexual abuse, and constitutional claims.

Joseph R. Saveri led the engineers’ no-poach class against Apple and Google and twice took a capacitor price-fixing class to trial in San Francisco.