Representative Cases

This is just a sample of the kinds of cases that we have handled over the years.

Religious Discrimination
Sexual Assault and Harassment
Whistleblower Retaliation
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death
Deceptive Business Practices
Race Sex and Age Discrimination

Religious Discrimination

The Catholic investigator for a government agency fired because she testified that her boss berated his Jewish employees by calling them “Christ killers” and other slurs on a daily basis while management looked the other way
The Buddhist mother kicked out of a cemetery where she was praying for the soul of her deceased son by workers who told her “You’re not in China anymore."
The volunteer firefighter denied employment because the chief thought his full-time firefighters would never tolerate a Jewish co-worker. We uncovered a slew of disgraceful slurs such as “Jews are only good for experimentation” among other disgraceful slurs
The Jewish police officers subjected to daily slurs by a captain who blamed Hitler for “not finishing the job”
The Islamic professor who promoted inter-religious tolerance denied tenure based on trumped up charges;
The non-religious taxpayer forced to pay for a lighted Cross on top of a city-owned water tower;
The fast food worker whose boss would complain when he thought the customers were Jewish by saying that Hitler should have sent them “to the ovens.”
The international Catholic organization falsely accused of disregarding its obligation to perform the traditional Latin mass by a group of parishioners attempting to wrest control of Church property

Sexual Harassment and Assault

The city park worker forcibly groped almost daily by a supervisor despite numerous complaints to management
The hard-working single mom told by her supervisor to "put out or get out” and gets fired for reporting it;
The secretary who barely managed to escape being raped by a drunken sales manager known by management to have been harassing other female employees.
The six year old girl sexually assaulted by the teenage son of a home health care nurse who abandoned the child so she could go out with her boyfriend.
The single woman living in an apartment who was bound gagged and tortured with knife to her genitals during a home invasion robbery because the rental complex failed to provide the most basic security measures even though it was aware of the high incidence of violent crime in the vicinity.
The straight man regularly subjected to anti-gay slurs groping and sick pranks despite frequent complaints to management.
The dental assistant who discovered that her dentist employer had been spying on in the ladies room through a peephole pointed at the toilet seat.

Whistleblower Retaliation

The attorney fired after corroborating allegations of misconduct by the division chief attorney, and then defamed as part of an orchestrated cover-up.
The bank vice-president with glowing performance reviews forced out in retaliation for corroborating sex, race, and religious discrimination in the course of an internal investigation.
The mid-level manager fired for reporting a company-approved practice of bribing liquor sales vendors.
The administrative assistant fired because she refused to falsify documents.
The truck driver fired in retaliation for reporting lax enforcement of safety regulations.
The woman who suffers sudden spinal cord compression requiring emergency surgery on Thanksgiving Day because she is forced to perform a job in violation of her doctors orders in retaliation for complaining about discrimination by her boss.
The firefighter terminated after reporting illegal gambling, ostensibly for calling in sick 20 minutes late.
The police officer fired and blacklisted in retaliation for filing a valid workers compensation claim.
The waitress fired in retaliation for filing a valid workers compensation claim.
The physician who loses his hospital privileges in retaliation for reporting that a patient’s death was caused by medical malpractice.

Negligence

The family of a teenage boy electrocuted in a hotel swimming pool because of gross decay and corrosion in an adjacent electrical room.
The woman paralyzed after striking a trailer with detached brake lights that suddenly stopping in the center of I-95 when a tire rim.
The traveler who requires seven surgeries and racks up $150,000 in medical bills because a hotel builder decides to save $10 in each hotel room by ignoring the architect’s specification for anti-skid tubs.
The man shot in the chest by an unknown assailant due to inadequate security in a rental complex.
The woman making an ATM deposit stabbed by an assailant hiding nearby because of negligent design and maintenance of the property.
The woman whose life was ruined by a speeding driver that slammed into her car killing her husband and leaving her paralyzed.
The man with a preexisting brain cyst that ruptures causing major brain damage when he is rear-ended at 5 mph while stopped at an intersection.
The sports fan run over by a truck in a sporting arena parking lot lacking painted lines, signage or traffic controls, suffering a crushed hip and shoulder injuries.
The automobile passenger who suffers a broken neck in a work-related accident whose insurer attempts to conceal the availability of under-insured motorist benefits.
The chef who fell off a roof fracturing his elbow whose physician’s mismanagement resulted in a frozen arm.
The elderly woman who had a stroke while undergoing an elective hip replacement, because a physician cleared her for surgery without examining a test result in his records showing she had a high risk of stroke.
The young man confined to a mental hospital because of unremitting suicidal pain from a spinal cord injury caused by a drunk driver.
The innocent passenger severely injured in rear end collision as the result of the negligence of uninsured drunk driver from the restaurant which had served negligent driver with alcohol despite a very restrictive state law which usually shields servers of alcohol from responsibility.
The innocent passenger who was flung out of her own car window when her husband swerved to avoid a vehcile inching into his lane and from whose insurer we recovered a large settlement despite the fact that the vehicles never collided.
The unborn out of wedlock child of a teenage boy who had been killed in an automobile accident wherein we obtained a large structured settlement for the unborn child and additional settlement for the child's surviving grandmother despite efforts of a former girlfriend who unsuccessfully claimed to have rights to represent the estate based on false assertions that the the deceased teenager had also been the father of her toddler.
The surviving spouse and children of a family man who had gone to a hospital emergency room with complaints of chest pain and who had been sent home from the ER and who died the following day as the result of a heart attack.
The father of a child whose estranged wife and her parents had been negligent in the supervision of a 19 month old child who drowned in a swimming pool at the grandparents' family residence.
The driver who sustained serious knee injury and who was informed by the negligent party's insurer as to the absence of any available insurance coverage wherein we obtained the entire proceeds of a six figure insurance policy that had been concealed from our client.
The injured Florida motorist who sustained injury in New York due to the negligence of a Nevada driver in which we obtained a
significant settlement from a series of insurers based in Pennsylvania, Missouri and Florida.
The shopowner who sustained emotional anguish and moderate physical injury when an out-of-control motorist drove her vehicle through the plate glass window of his store, killing a customer and causing major property damage.
The three surviving passengers of a car wreck wherethe driver was killed by a negligent motorist driving a self-insured rental vehicle.
The surviving parents of a teenage pedestrian who had been killed by a drunken uninsured driver in claim against restaurant which had served alcohol to drunken patron and against funeral home that subsequently buried deceased and his friend (who had also died in same accident) in one another's grave.
The auto victim who aggravated a pre-existing fibromyalgia condition.
The department store customer injured due to the company's failure to repair a known roof leak.
The vctim of an accidental shotgun blast.
The driver of a car who barely managed to survive after being forced off forced off the road into a canal.
The auto passenger duped by the insurer into thinking that a statute of limiations barred any recovery.
The construction worker attacked by an irate employee of a subcontractor.
The grieving family of a man killed by a drunk driver.

Deceptive Business Practices

The small towing company that buys a car-carrier advertised to hold two full-size cars, and then discovers it is only rated to support a single sub-compact vehicle.
The Chinese immigrants with limited English duped a man posing as a wealthy Arab sheik into depositing $200,000 into a lawyer’s trust account, who then diverts the money to his own use.
The retired couple who move to Florida and buy a dry cleaning business based on ‘cooked’ books and who lose their life savings.
The young couple who buy a Laundromat also because of ‘cooked’ books.
The unsophisticated investor who entrusts her life savings to a major brokerage company who churns her account on high risk stock options.
The buyer of a small business whose employees raid the customer list in the middle of the night.
The telephone answering service employees who conspire to start a competing business by using inside information to steal the customers.
The homeowners whose insurance company falsely accuses her of arson to avoid paying benefits.
The small business owner whose insurance company falsely accuses him of arson.
The real estate developer represented by an attorney with a conflict of interest.
The employee with a $1 million health insurance policy denied benefits for surgery needed to prevent permanent partial paralysis for an injury that occurred while the insurance was in force, because the insurer had the audacity to claim that the insurance benefit was forfeited upon termination of employment.

Race Sex and Age Discrimination

The black convenience store patron who asked for a return of two quarters deposited into broken video game machine, only to the owners call him racial slurs, attack him with a stun gun, and falsely accuse of him of theft.
The female assistant manager of a fast food restaurant passed over for promotion because of a policy limiting management positions to men.
The pregnant office worker who notified her employer of her intent to take maternity leave upon the birth of her child, only to be told by the manager that he would rather she get an abortion and offered to pay for it.
The sixty year old airline logistics planner told his position had been eliminated only to learn that the company gave his job to a much younger employee and changed the job title to hide it.

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