Employment lawyers in California Aalok Sikand to Debra Reilly

Firm: The Law Offices of Aalok Sikand

2528 S Sepulveda Blvd , Los Angeles , California 90064

Practice Areas: Litigation, Chapter 13, Chapter 7, Business, Employment, Real Estate

I am an attorney specializing in lawsuit disputes, and bankruptcy. As both an MBA and a California Licensed Real Estate Broker, I hold specialized credentials that afford me a very comprehensive understanding of the complexities associated with real estate and business issues.. I have recent experience successfully taking business litigation cases to trial, successfully taking collection claims to trial, and saving many homes from foreclosure utilizing bankruptcy protection.. I have also been successful in settling personal injury claims and in negotiating several family law cases.. It has been my my privilege to gain a great deal of diverse experience. It is my goal to continue to provide my clients with unsurpassed excellence in advocacy.

Firm: Smith Trial Group

4340 Von Karman Ave, Suite 100 , Newport Beach , California 92660

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Employment

Smith Trial Group represents plaintiffs in personal injury and employment matters. Our attorneys have over 25 years of combined experience litigating in state and federal courts. Our personal injury practice focuses on all general personal injury matters including auto accidents, wrongful death, assault, bicycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, brain injury and disability, spinal cord injuries, dog bites, premises liability, defective products and products liability. Our employment practice focuses on wrongful termination, wage and hour claims, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.

16133 Ventura Blvd #675 , Encino , California 91436

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Employment, Insurance

I have a broad range of experience over three decades of practice, including employment discrimination/harassment/termination and violations of wage and hour rules, dangerous conditions of property, malpractice, "bad faith" insurance practices (denials of claims), serious auto injuries, and defective or dangerous products.  Member, Million Dollar Advocates Forum.  A sampling of cases handled can be provided upon request.. I also provide private mediation services, and services as an arbitrator.  I have acted as a mediator or arbitrator in hundreds of challenging cases, running the gamut from negligence to employment to real estate disputes, and beyond.  Mediations or arbitrations are held in my office or that of one of the parties.  Fees for private dispute resolution services are very reasonable.

Firm: Browne Employment Lawyers, Professional Law Corporation

475 Washington Blvd , Marina Del Rey , California 90292

Practice Areas: Employment, Sexual Harassment, Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, Employment & Labor

Our law firm represents employees, tenants and individuals in claims for discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.. We do our best to treat potential clients and clients the way that we'd like to be treated if we were in their shoes. We operate as a team with each other and with our clients. If we cannot help you with your case, we'll do what we can to find you a resource that may be useful as you move forward.. Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns.

Firm: Law Offices of Darryl E. Young

7041 Koll Center Parkway, Ste. 255 , Pleasanton , California 94566

Practice Areas: Personal Injury, Criminal Defense, Employment

Mr. Young relishes the challenge of fighting for the underdog and winning difficult cases while getting excellent results for clients.. Born and raised in the bay area, Mr. Young went to college at UCLA.  He returned to the bay area for law school with a keen interest in criminal law.  Mr. Young was a certified law clerk at the San Francisco Public Defender's and Alameda County Public Defender's offices, before graduating and becoming a deputy public defender in Merced County.  At the public defender's office, he learned the tools of the trade by being aggressive and winning motions and trials. At his conclusion of three years in Merced, he was awarded a trophy for outstanding advocacy.  He assumed the practice of Judge Paul C. Lo, when he was appointed to the Merced Superior Court bench.

2020 Main St Ste 600 , Irvine , California 92614

Practice Areas: Employment, Real Estate, Litigation, Employment & Labor

Daniel Kessler is the head of the firm’s litigation department and one of the firm’s founding partners. Mr. Kessler has litigated and tried a wide variety of business cases ranging from employment terminations to real estate development disputes to fraud and conspiracy to water rights. Mr. Kessler has secured multiple million-dollar jury verdicts for his clients, including significant punitive damage awards. Mr. Kessler has successfully defended clients before, during and at trial, including prevailing on several motions to dismiss the opposition’s case in its entirety, saving the expense of further trial. Mr. Kessler is a strong advocate for alternative dispute resolution, as well, participating both as an advocate, and a neutral mediator. Mr. Kessler has guest lectured on mediation at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law. Mr. Kessler has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Whittier Law School, teaching trade secrets.. Mr. Kessler was born in New York City, but grew up in Los Angeles. Mr. Kessler received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. Mr. Kessler attended Whittier Law School in Los Angeles, California where he graduated magna cum laude and ranked fourth in the law school class. During law school, Mr. Kessler was the recipient of numerous honors, competed nationally on moot court and served as an editor of the school’s law review. Following law school, Mr. Kessler was clerk to the Honorable Kenneth R. Harkins of the United States Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C. Mr. Kessler has been a past board member for the Robert A. Banyard Inn of Court. Mr. Kessler is admitted to practice in all courts in California, and has appeared in courts across the nation. Mr. Kessler is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell’s peer review rating system, the highest ranking (5.0 out of 5.0) in legal ability and ethics. Additionally, Mr. Kessler has been recognized as a Southern California Super Lawyer for Business Litigation each year since 2011.

Firm: Matrix Law Group, LLP

5205 Avenida Encinas Ste A , Carlsbad , California 92008

Practice Areas: Employment, Contracts, Business, Employment & Labor

My practice focuses on HR advising and business transactions. Prior to co-founding Matrix Law Group I ran a solo law practice and before that I worked in firms.  Prior to practicing law I worked for software companies after receiving my degree in Business Administration.  What separates me from other attorneys is accessability, accountability, and follow through.

42 Miller Ave , Mill Valley , California 94941

Practice Areas: Class Action, Civil Rights, Litigation, Employment

Christian Schreiber is a founding partner at Olivier Schreiber & Chao LLP, where he works primarily on class actions involving employment and consumer rights, civil rights, and financial services matters.

Firm: Charles Russell HR Legal Consulting

3141 KAREN AVE , LONG BEACH , California 90808

Practice Areas: Employment, Business, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor

Charles Russell is a human resources attorney who consults with small to mid-sized employers in both the nonprofit and for-profit worlds. For more than twelve years, Charles has provided employers with representation, advice, consulting, and training on all aspects of employee relations and board management practices. From outsourcing all human resources functions to providing customized consultation, Charles helps employers develop and implement personnel policies and practices designed specifically to improve employee effectiveness while reducing the risk of litigation.

2240 Encinitas Blvd Ste D #104 , Encinitas , California 92024

Practice Areas: Employment, Employment & Labor

Debra Reilly received her J.D. in 1989 from the University of San Diego School of Law, where she was an Editor for the San Diego Law Review in 1988-89; she authored a law review article titled Reversal of a RICO Predicate Offense on Appeal: Should the RICO Count Be Vacated?, which is published in Volume 27, Issue 1, of the San Diego Law Review. She was also a Finalist in a San Diego School of Law Moot Court competition.. After graduation, Ms. Reilly worked as an Extern Law Clerk for Justice David R. Thompson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals before joining the Orange County-based law firm Murtaugh Miller Meyer & Nelson LLP from 1990 to 1999, where she became a partner practicing employment law on behalf of employers and management, which included the performance of workplace investigations. In 1999, Ms. Reilly moved to San Diego to serve for one year as the Research Attorney to United States District Judge Larry A. Burns of the United States District Court, Southern District of California. In that capacity, she researched and drafted proposed judicial opinions and court orders and conducted discovery conferences with counsel of record on court cases involving the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1871 (42 U.S.C. § 1983), Copyright/Patent Infringement, Social Security Appeals, Federal Tort Claims Act, and Writs of Habeas Corpus.. Ms. Reilly then joined a Mission Viejo law firm as a partner for three years heading up the firm’s employment law department before eventually opening her own employment law practice in 2002. In Ms. Reilly’s representation of public entities, corporations, management, and employees, she has handled all facets of employment litigation, including trial work. She has handled numerous administrative proceedings before the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the California Labor Commission’s Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, the Employment Development Department, and the City of Santa Ana Personnel Board.. Ms. Reilly has been conducting internal workplace investigations since 1994 throughout California and now does it fulltime. Throughout her legal career, she has conducted over 900 investigations for numerous municipalities, counties, water and sanitation districts, vector control districts, fire departments, police departments, public and private universities, community college districts, public and private school districts (elementary and secondary), transportation authorities, the United States Postal Service (holding a “sensitive” security clearance by the Postal Inspector’s Office), and many private sector employers (including several Fortune 500 companies). Given Ms. Reilly’s experience in conducting police and fire department investigations, she is well versed in providing the appropriate pre-interview notices and admonitions pursuant to the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act, the Firefighters Procedural Bill of Rights Act, and Lybarger Admonitions.. Types of Investigations Handled By Debra Reilly. • Waste and abuse in government contracts• Violation of contract procurement policies; contract splitting to avoid threshold of Board scrutiny; violation of competitive bidding laws (Public Contract Code)• Misuse and abuse of public funds, gift of public funds, credit card misuse• Misuse of public vehicle, travel expense abuse, expense reimbursement fraud• Employee violations of Penal Code 424 (misappropriation of public funds), Penal Code 72 (presenting false claim to Public Board or Officer), Government Code 8314 (private person’s use of public resources)• Violations of code of ethics, violation of conflict of interest policies• Unauthorized, improper use of public property, equipment, or funds for private purposes; improper use of authority for personal gain• Bribery or the receiving of or the giving of other unlawful gifts or gratuities Falsification of time cards• Counterfeiting of tennis passes to high-level tennis tournament• Wage & Hour investigations• Harassment, Discrimination, Retaliation based on FEHA, Title VII, ADA, Rehabilitation Act, ADEA, California Code of Regulations “Title V” (sex, race, color, age, ethnicity, pregnancy, disability, religion/creed, national origin, marital status, etc.)• Sexual assault/battery• First Amendment/freedom of expression issues• Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities / Failure to Engage in Interactive Process• California Whistleblower Statute (Calif. Labor Code ). Testimony. Ms. Reilly has testified in deposition, arbitration, and jury trials concerning the findings of her own internal investigations, all of which have been upheld by the triers of fact (arbitrators and juries). She has qualified, and testified, as an expert witness concerning “standard practices” in conducting internal investigations involving employee misconduct, harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, as well as appropriate billing practices of investigators.. Publications, Presentations, Professional Memberships. Ms. Reilly has published numerous articles on employment law and internal workplace investigations. She has presented numerous educational seminars and webinars sponsored by the State Bar of California, the Association of Workplace Investigators, the Orange County Bar Association, the San Diego County Bar Association, the Society of Human Resources Management San Diego (SHRM-San Diego), the San Diego Employers Association Roundtable, and , on how to conduct thorough workplace investigations.. Ms. Reilly is a member of the California State Bar (Labor and Employment Law section), the San Diego County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law section), the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Society of Human Resources Management (“SHRM”), the San Diego Chapter of the Society of Human Resources Management, the Association of Title IX Administrators, Orange County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Law section), and a past member of the North County Personnel Association of San Diego.. Ms. Reilly is a founding Board Member of the Association of Workplace Investigators (“AWI”), where she served on the Board for six years, and she served as the Chair of its Publications Committee and Editor-in-Chief of The AWI Journal from 2009 through March 2013. Since March 2013, she has been the Vice-Chair of the AWI Publications Committee, and continues to be an Editor and a continuing author of publications within The AWI Journal. She served as the Vice-Chair of the Webinars/Seminars Committee of AWI from November 2014 to December 2015, and she was a member of the Guiding Principles Committee of AWI from June 2014 to December 2015.. Since January 2010, Ms. Reilly has been certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (“SPHR”) by the Human Resources Certification Institute. She also received a Certificate of Attendance (40-Hours) from the National Training Institute of the Association of Workplace Investigators in June 2012. She was a full-time faculty member at the weeklong National Training Institute of the Association of Workplace Investigators in February 2015 in Sonoma, CA, where she presented modules on Public Sector Investigations and Making Credibility Determinations.

Firm: Kirkland Law of California

2014 Tulare St Ste 523 , Fresno , California 93721

Practice Areas: Employment, Workers Compensation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation, Litigation

5757 Wilshire Blvd. , Los Angeles , California 90036

Practice Areas: Employment, Wrongful Termination, Discrimination, Business, Employment & Labor

Firm: Heit Law Group, P.C.

903 Cedar Street , Santa Cruz , California 95060

Practice Areas: Employment, Corporate, Venture Capital, Contracts, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI, Wills, Family, Immigration, Copyright, Trademark, Real Estate, Bankruptcy, Employment & Labor

Founder of Heit Law Group, P.C., Brian began the firm to ensure his clients’ matters were resolved with their interest in mind and the freedom to do everything possible to help his clients succeed. Brian’s diverse background in public and private enterprise, criminal justice, non-profit, and government allows him to address a wide range of client matters. After working in other firms, Brian Heit founded Williams Heit Law Group, P.C. to provide effective representation to clients and personalized service. Brian values his clients’ and takes an innovative approach to litigating omplex matters in a cost-effective and efficient manner. All too often, legal matters can draw out for years. Brian consistently tackles this problem head-on strategically to obtain fair and reasonable resolutions. Moreover, Brian’s experience in transactional work and litigation affords him insight while performing the other skill, whether drafting agreements and other legal documents or taking a case to trial. Brian's ultimate goal is to ensure as much legal protection as possible and support his clients' long-term success.

11925 Wilshire Blvd Ste 300 , Los Angeles , California 90025

Practice Areas: Employment, Litigation, Business, Appeals, Class Action, Foreclosure, Employment & Labor

Brett received his BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. At Hastings, he was a member of the Hastings International and Comparative Law Review, and received the American Jurisprudence Award in Legal Writing and Research. He also received the CALI Award for Excellence as the top student in Trial Advocacy. He has twice been selected by Thompson/Reuters Super Lawyers as a Rising Star in the areas of Labor and Employment Law, an honor reserved for only the top 2 1/2% of attorneys in the state during their first 10 years of practice, as determined by their peers.Since 1998, Brett has worked at firms specializing in domestic and international transactional work and civil litigation. He started his career working on product liability cases. In that capacity, he assisted in the representation of plaintiffs with malignant mesothelioma caused by exposure to asbestos. One of these ultimately settled his case for what was, at the time, the largest single plaintiff pre-trial settlement in history. His work in developing the case for liability and damages against one of the largest privately held companies in the country has been utilized by numerous firms throughout the United States to obtain multi-million dollar Plaintiff's verdicts.Since 2000, Brett has handled litigation involving employment, business, real estate, securities fraud, intellectual property, trade libel and other forms of defamation, landlord-tenant disputes and professional malpractice. His practice has ranged from small landlord-tenant, contract and wage disputes with as little as $10,000 at issue, to multi-million dollar securities fraud, RICO, unfair business practices and intellectual property suits. In 2003, he helped to obtain a $4.7 million arbitration award in a multi-forum international theft of trade secret case. In 2004, he represented a textile designer against more than two dozen of the largest retailers in the world in more than 40 federal copyright violation cases.. Brett has successfully assisted plaintiffs and defendants in both the public and private sector in sexual harassment, race and gender discrimination and wage & hour suits. He began representing workers seeking to collect unpaid overtime wages as a member of the Hastings Civil Justice Clinic in 1997. Since then, he has recovered unpaid wages for numerous plaintiffs, from minimum wage earners through high level executives owed in excess of $75,000 in bonuses alone. He has also represented both plaintiffs and defendants in representative wage actions under California's unfair business practices law and Labor Code § 2699, which permits aggrieved employees to seek recovery on behalf of all similarly situated employees of a company. He has experience in federal and state courts, and in a number of different alternative dispute resolution forums.. In recent years, Brett has also successfully handled several high-value judgment enforcement actions, and has obtained positive rulings in appeals brought before both state and federal Courts of Appeal.Brett is a member of the State Bar of California, and the Labor & Employment section of the California State Bar. He is admitted to practice before the courts of California, the United States District Court, Central District of California and the Ninth Cicuit Court of Appeals. He is a co-author of Advanced Legal Drafting for California Paralegals (2001), and the author of GAF Corporation: The Case for Liability and Punitive Damages, published by the 2000 Plaintiff's Asbestos Lawyers Seminar.

Firm: Conner & Associates

212 Yacht Club Way , Redondo Beach , California 90277

Practice Areas: Contracts, Real Estate, Litigation, Lawsuits & Disputes, Employment, Contracts & Agreements, Contracts & Agreements

3103 Falcon Street, Suite I , San Diego , California 92103

Practice Areas: Business, Employment, Contracts

Firm: Hill Law Firm

15260 Ventura Blvd. , Sherman Oaks , California 91403

Practice Areas: Employment, Intellectual Property, Contracts, Employment & Labor

I graduated cum laude from the University of Pittsburgh where I earned a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in Film Studies with a certificate in Russian and East European Studies.  During my undergraduate studies, I also attained the university’s highest undergraduate merit scholarship as well as its higher undergraduate research fellowship — the Chancellor’s Scholarship and Chancellor’s Fellowship.  In 1998, I was accepted by Southwestern University’s SCALE program, the first ABA-accredited two year year law school program.  During my graduate studies, I attained the university’s highest merit scholarship, the Wildman Scholarship. I received my Juris Doctor in May 2000 and became a member of the California State Bar later that year. Most of my thirteen years of civil litigation have been as defense counsel for California employers where my philosophy is simple: “assess your legal risks and identify your options for managing those risks.”

Firm: Kellman & Kleiman

12100 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 1100 , Los Angeles , California 90025

Practice Areas: Employment, Business, Employment & Labor, Employment & Labor

Los Angeles Magazine has named Barry Kellman to its list of Southern California "Super Lawyers" for four consecutive years.  He represents employers in all aspects of employment law and related business issues.  His firm, Kellman & Kleiman, is one of the premier boutique firms in Los Angeles, primarily representing mid-size businesses including many of Hollywood's best known production companies.

Firm: Bay Oak Law

1939 Harrison St. , Oakland , California 94612

Practice Areas: Business Litigation, Contracts, Intellectual Property Litigation, Trade Secret Misappropriation Litigation, Copyright Infringement, Employment, Business, Breach of Contract, Commercial Contracts, Contract Fraud, Contract Litigation, Copyrights, Copyright Licensing, Internet Copyright Law, Corporate Law, Closely Held Corporations, Corporate Commercial Law, Corporate Contracts, Corporate Control Contests, Corporate Dissolutions, Corporate Fiduciary Law, Corporate Formation, Corporate Governance, Corporate Investigations, Corporate Litigation, Corporate Organization, Corporate Partnerships, Incorporation, Small Business Corporations, S Corporations, Debtor and Creditor, Fraud and Deceit, Civil Fraud, Fraud, Bid Protests, Government Contract Fraud, Intellectual Property, Electronic Intellectual Property, Intellectual Property Arbitration, Intellectual Property Enforcement, Intellectual Property Infringement, Intellectual Property Rights, Internet Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Cybersquatting, Content Licensing, Domain Name Infringement, Internet Crimes, Internet Liability, Internet Litigation, Covenants Not To Compete, Employer Liability, Employment Breach of Contract, Employment Litigation, Employment Law, Noncompete Litigation, Noncompetition and Non-Solicitation Agreements, Litigation, Civil Litigation, Defense Litigation, Federal Litigation, Federal Civil Litigation, Trial Practice, Trade Secrets, Theft of Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Counterfeiting, Lanham Act, Trademark Infringement, Trademark Litigation, Trademark Protection, Trade Dress, Service Marks, Internet Trademarks, Trade Names, Unfair Competition

Firm: Bryant Whitten, LLP

8050 N Palm Ave , Fresno , California 93711

Practice Areas: Employment,