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Gina Szeto-Wong
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 11 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment, Family and Personal Injury
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Ms. Szeto-Wong completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley. She obtained her law degree from UC Berkeley School of Law and has been litigating civil rights, family law, and employment cases in state and federal court since 2012.
Ms. Szeto-Wong has a successful track record including favorable verdicts and awards in the millions of dollars. She is bilingual in English and Cantonese.
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Erika Angelos Heath
SAN FRANCISCO, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 14 years of experience
Civil Rights, Appeals, Consumer and Employment
Northeastern University School of Law
Getting her start in the trenches as a legal aid attorney, Erika has years of experience in seeking justice for employees and consumers against unfair practices. She has fought off debt collectors, obtained justice for wrongfully terminated employees, and untangled thorny credit reporting issues. She has taken on local government for refusing proper restroom access to transgender people. In 2015, she even had a federal court declare a state's garnishment statute unconstitutional for violating the rights of low-income debtors.
Whether your case is just starting, or whether you are up on appeal, Erika has the experience and...
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Michael Delos Green
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 22 years of experience
(707) 542-5050
100 Stony Point Rd #200
P O Box 1566
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Products Liability
The University of Denver Sturm College of Law and The University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Mike attended law school on a merit-based scholarship and graduated with honors. Since joining the firm in January 2001, Mike’s practice has been dedicated solely to representing plaintiffs. Mike specializes in litigating serious injury and wrongful death cases. He has extensive experience handling cases involving personal injury, product liability, automotive defect/crashworthiness, medical malpractice, elder abuse, civil rights, fire claims, insurance bad faith as well as government entity liability. Mike’s practice also focuses on representing property owners, both residential and commercial, in construction defect matters. He has successfully represented hundreds of homeowners and businesses in Northern California seeking recovery for defective...
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Maria Cristina Molteni
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 30 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment and International
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Cristina focuses her practice on representing clients in employment law matters—including litigating wage and hour claims, class action employment cases, wrongful termination, harassment, retaliation, and discrimination law— and providing advice on prevailing wage and public works law, severance agreements, employee privacy, and workplace issues. Cristina conducts training seminars and presentations in Spanish and Portuguese on a broad range of employment law topics. Cristina has worked in the labor and employment law fields since the early days of her legal career. Before moving to California, she was a law clerk in the National Labor Court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and...
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Walter Herbert Walker III
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Personal Injury and Products Liability
UC Hastings COL
Walter ("Skip") Walker is the managing partner of Walker, Hamilton & Kearns, LLP, a firm he founded in 1988. He and the firm specialize in high-profile personal injury and wrongful death matters, particularly in the areas of police abuse of power, dangerous condition of public property, highway design, sexual abuse, product liability and accidents involving vehicles of all kinds. He was San Francisco Trial Lawyer of the Year in 2018, has been nominated for that award several times and a finalist twice. He has also twice been a finalist for Marin County Trial Lawyer of the Year...
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Scott Edward Cole
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 31 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Consumer and Employment
University of San Francisco School of Law
Scott Cole is the founder and principal attorney at Cole & Van Note, one of California's best-known and most highly-respected employment and consumer rights class action law firms. He is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law (1992), and San Francisco State University (B.A., Speech Communications; 1989). He is a member of the California State Bar and the State Bar’s Labor and Employment Law Section, is admitted to practice before all California federal courts (including the 6th and 9th Circuit Court of Appeals), has prosecuted cases in numerous states including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida,...
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John Francis Hyland
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 29 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
Golden Gate University School of Law
John Hyland is a partner with Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP. He practices exclusively in the area of employment law. John was Of Counsel with Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in the firm’s San Francisco office where he advised and represented companies in State and Federal court actions covering all areas of employment law, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, disability law, employee privacy, employee leaves, and wage and hour issues. John regularly conducts training seminars and presents on a wide array of employment law issues. Law & Politics Magazine selected John as one of its Northern California Super Lawyers...
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Izaak Schwaiger
Sebastopol, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
University of Wyoming College of Law
Izaak Schwaiger is an advocate and champion for the rights of regular people. A decorated veteran of the United States Marine Corps, a former Sonoma County prosecutor, and a respected presence in the courtroom, Mr. Schwaiger has devoted his practice to defending the criminally accused and upholding the civil rights of those who have been wronged by the police. Following ten years of service to his country in the Marine Corps, Izaak enrolled in law school at the University of Wyoming, where he did not graduate with honors, but was named "most likely to become a rockstar." Called the...
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John M. Harrigan
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 47 years of experience
Civil Rights, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Jesse S. Gill
Walnut Creek, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, Family and Juvenile
I am licensed to practice law in California and have received federal admissions to practice law in the Northern and Central Districts of California. I have developed extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of Civil, Family, Juvenile, and Criminal Law from the inception of a case through the appellate process. I have extensive state and federal litigation experience in drafting and arguing law and motion, engaging in and defending depositions, and have engaged in dozens of hearings and Court trials. I have drafted writs and appeals in most appellate districts within the state and and have successfully received multiple...
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Melanie Tardell
Discovery Bay, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
Monterey College of Law
Melanie is a fierce advocate of those whose legally protected rights have been violated, especially as it relates to violations in the workplace and the service industry as a result of Covid-19 policies. She has teamed up with a network of gifted California attorneys to combine efforts in the fight to sustain our constitutional rights in the wake of the pandemic.
While on a different life and career path, fate stepped in and the legal profession found Melanie. After overcoming her own legal challenges, largely due to an attorney's advocacy, she felt called to become a lawyer herself. Her experience as...
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Julius Young
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 47 years of experience
Civil Rights, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
University of North Carolina School of Law
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Alden Jay Knisbacher
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Civil Rights, Arbitration & Mediation, Employment and Probate
Georgetown Univ Law Ctr
Alden Knisbacher has represented clients in the Bay Area and across California since 1994. He has litigated hundreds of cases in various areas of law including employment, real estate, contract and business disputes, probate disputes, civil rights and other matters.
Mr. Knisbacher is a Georgetown Law graduate.
When not practicing law he can be found hiking, biking, running or cycling with his two children. Or, perhaps, playing with their pet bunny, Bobby.
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Peter Scott Rukin
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
New York University School of Law
As a partner with San Francisco's Rukin Hyland & Riggin LLP, Peter Rukin represents Bay Area clients in a wide array of complex litigation matters, including employment, wage and hour, and business disputes. Mr. Rukin has built a reputation as a thoughtful and strong advocate for his clients, whatever their disputes may be. Mr. Rukin specializes in complex litigation, with a focus on wage and hour and equal employment opportunity claims. Since 2003, as class counsel he has recovered tens of millions of dollars on behalf of thousands of California employees and consumers. Peter also represents clients with respect...
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Robert David Links
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 49 years of experience
(415) 393-8001
1 Embarcadero Center
Suite 400
San Francisco, CA 94111-3619
Civil Rights, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Education
UCLA School of Law
Also known as Bo Links, I have practiced in San Francisco since 1974. My firm is Slote, Links & Boreman, LLP. I represent school administrators, educational institutions, students, parents and teachers. I also specialize in construction and employment-related litigation. I also serve as a mediator in a variety of cases.An extensive list of matters that I have handled is available on our website - www.slotelaw.com. I am also a published golf writer (four books - Follow the Wind; Riverbank Tweed & Roadmap Jenkins: Tales from the Caddie Yard; Golf Poems; Alister MacKenzie's Legacy of Public...
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Raymond Ambrosio Buenaventura
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 30 years of experience
(650) 727-6508
555 California Street
Suite 4925
San Francisco, CA 94104
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Domestic Violence
Whittier Coll School of Law
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Beth Wolf Mora
San Ramon, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Business, Elder and Employment
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Ryan Joshua Vlasak
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(415) 835-6777
220 Montgomery Street, Suite 870
San Francisco, CA 94104
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Insurance Claims
Temple Univ School of Law
Mr. Vlasak focuses his practice on civil litigation for plaintiffs, including habitability and wrongful eviction suits for tenants, as well as consumer, employment and personal injury actions. Mr. Vlasak earned his Juris Doctor degree from Temple University Law School in Philadelphia, where he was Staff Editor of Temple International and Comparative Law Journal.
Prior to his career as an attorney, Mr. Vlasak was an Adjunct Professor and taught courses including philosophy, ethics, and logic.
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Michael Wayne Cooper
Paradise, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 45 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Arbitration & Mediation, Criminal Defense and Employment
UC Davis School of Law King Hall
Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Law:
I provide a complete range of estate planning, elder law, probate, trust administration, veterans pension and Medi-Cal eligibility services. I work with clients to create and implement an estate plan specifically designed with them in mind, including their family, their business, their property and their personal wishes. This includes preparation of Durable Powers of Attorney for Health Care and Durable Powers of Attorney for Asset Management.
Family Law:
I have over 30 years of experience in family law. Besides being a highly trained, experienced and knowledgeable family lawyer, I am personally and professionally sensitive to the concerns...
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Berne Reuben
Berkeley, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 46 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
Boalt Hall (University of Berkeley School of Law) and Golden Gate University School of Law
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Sarah Jane T.C. Truong
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 17 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Consumer and Stockbroker Fraud
University of California - Berkeley
Ms. Truong's practice focuses on all aspects of civil litigation and general business litigation.
Ms. Truong joined Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz in October 2018. Prior to joining the firm, she worked as a litigation attorney at two Am Law 100 firms in New York, New York, where she practiced in the areas of complex and multidistrict commercial litigation, contract disputes, data/records management, E-Discovery, cross-border litigation (including the U.K, France, Israel), securities litigation, corporate internal investigations, governmental investigations (including Securities Exchange Commission investigations and antitrust investigations from the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission), bankruptcy litigation (as a member...
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N. William Metke
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 22 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights and Employment
U of San Francisco School of Law
An Advocate for Your Rights in the Workplace.
The Law Office of N. William Metke specializes in employment law litigation. The firm provides vigorous advocacy on behalf of individuals who have encountered injustice in the workplace. This includes discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, unpaid wages, and other wrongs in the employment context. We represent clients throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
tel: 415-572-9556
email: nwm@metkelaw.com
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Annie B. Banh
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Civil Rights, Employment and Landlord Tenant
Golden Gate University School of Law
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Mary Patricia Hough
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 40 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
Golden Gate University
Our firm has been representing individuals against institutions for over 40 years. We take pride in
serving the "under served" in employment discrimination, harassment and retaliation cases; wage theft cases, medical malpractice and serious injury matters. Our AV rated firm has had successes in all of these areas.
For details, please see our website at www.mhlegal.net.
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Scot Andrew Candell
San Rafael, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 30 years of experience
Civil Rights, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Employment
UC Berkeley School of Law Boalt Hall
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Jocelyn Burton
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 35 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
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Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of California, 1994-2005.
Civil Chief, 2001-2003
Deputy Civil Chief, 1998-2001
AUSA, 1994-1998, 2003-2005
Attorney of record in cases resulting in over twenty published decisions;
Litigated hundreds of cases in federal district court;
Litigated over 80...
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Guy Ellery Louie
San Ramon, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Civil Rights, Animal, Education and Employment
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
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Wendy Chau
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 12 years of experience
(888) 958-1953
580 California Street, Suite 1200
San Francisco, CA 94104
Civil Rights, Employment, Landlord Tenant and Personal Injury
My mission is to promote justice and equality, using existing laws and creating additional laws to protect people's constitutional rights.
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Joshua J. Schroeder
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 9 years of experience
Civil Rights, Appeals, IP and Immigration
Lewis & Clark Law School
Joshua J. Schroeder practices a wide array of law in California including immigration, intellectual property, and constitutional law including civil and criminal appeals, habeas corpus, and other post-conviction relief.
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Fulvio Francisco Cajina
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Attorney
Civil Rights, Employment, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Cornell University
I was born in Latin America and grew up in San Francisco. A product of the Bay Area, I studied economics at UC Berkeley before moving to Washington, DC, where I worked at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve. In 2003, I embarked on my legal studies at Cornell Law School in Ithaca, NY. Upon graduation, I worked as a corporate associate in Manhattan at a boutique international law firm. There I had the opportunity to work on a wide array of corporate transactions, from financing the construction of a hotel in NYC, structuring investments...
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Mr. Steven L. Derby
Walnut Creek, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
After 22 years as a trial attorney, I have decided to limit my practice to furthering the cause of disability access and ending disability discrimination in the workplace, at home and in public places. If you are disabled temporarily or permanently, you have special rights but no government agency to enforce them. If you think you have been the victim of discrimination, call us now for a free consultation.
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Stephen Fredrick Henry
Berkeley, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 34 years of experience
Civil Rights, Appeals, Business and Employment
Georgetown Univ Law Ctr
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Gilbert Somera
Stockton, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence and Personal Injury
Humphrey's Coll School of Law
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Michael Gregory Miller
Santa Rosa, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 35 years of experience
Civil Rights, Business, Employment and Personal Injury
Empire Coll School of Law
Mr. Miller is first and foremost a civil trial attorney, having tried over 60 cases to a jury verdict in a host of subjects ranging from real estate, business, dental malpractice, attorney malpractice, civil rights/excessive force and personal injury. Mr. Miller also represents clients regarding employment/labor matters, and homeowner's association disputes.
Mr. Miller worked as a police officer for nearly ten years on the San Francisco Peninsula. While attending Empire College School of Law at night, he started a successful legal research business, providing legal research to over 30 attorneys. He has practiced law in Sonoma County since 1988. He is...
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Dylan Leon Schaffer
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Civil Rights, Appeals, Insurance Claims and Personal Injury
UC Hastings COL
Dylan graduated from Cornell University (1986) and magna cum laude from UC Hastings College of the Law (1990). He clerked for Judge Melvin Brunetti in the Ninth Circuit and then spent a year teaching legal methods at Stanford Law School. From 1991-2001 Dylan practiced appellate law with Dennis Riordan until going out on his own in 2001. Thereafter he worked with lawyers around California on complex trials and appeals in both the civil and criminal arenas. Dylan joined Edward Kerley’s practice in 2014 and has since focused on the rights of California policyholders. He obtained two key victories on behalf...
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Douglas Scott Srulowitz
Stockton, CA Civil Rights Lawyer with 20 years of experience
Civil Rights, Bankruptcy, Criminal Defense and Divorce
Humphrey's Coll School of Law
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John Francis Martin
Walnut Creek, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 52 years of experience
Civil Rights, Education, Employment and Personal Injury
San Francisco Law Sch
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Jay T Jambeck
San Francisco, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 20 years of experience
Free ConsultationCivil Rights, Business, Education and Employment
University of Florida
Jay is a partner at the Leigh Law Group a San Francisco Bay Area law firm located in San Francisco and Marin County which practices in Education Law, Special Education Law, Civil Rights, Employment and Business law. Jay has litigated throughout California and the West for the past 11 years. Jay has obtained substantial relief for his clients ranging from a $1.7 million settlement in a shareholder dispute to providing an employee a promotion that was denied due to discrimination along with monetary damages and leave credits.
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Deborah Marie Kochan
Berkeley, CA Civil Rights Attorney with 33 years of experience
Civil Rights and Employment
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Ehud Moshe Appel
Oakland, CA Civil Rights Lawyer
Civil Rights, Employment and Personal Injury
Ehud Appel joined the California State Bar in 2018 after graduating with honors from U.C. Hastings College of the Law. He completed his undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley, majoring in Middle East Studies. Before pursuing a law career, he worked in education, healthcare, and the nonprofit world. He was a union representative, union organizer, and research analyst for United Healthcare Workers – West and the National Union of Healthcare Workers, where he represented nursing home and hospital workers throughout the Bay Area in grievances and collective bargaining.
During law school, he externed for the honorable judges Mary E. Wiss and...