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Lawrence J.H. Liu
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer
(310) 734-0410
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Business and Real Estate
University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Phillip R. Maltin
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Business and Health Care
DePaul College of Law
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Netta Grutman
Sherman Oaks, CA Employment Law Attorney with 13 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Arbitration & Mediation
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Netta Grutman is an employment law attorney and workplace investigator. She has conducted hundreds of workplace investigations of diverse nature and complexity. Ms. Grutman successfully defended large companies in employment litigation and brings her vast experience in employment law to her investigations and trainings. Ms. Grutman earned her Juris Doctorate from University of California, Hastings and her Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of California, Davis. Ms. Grutman is admitted to practice law in California. She is also a member of the Association of Workplace Investigators.
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Marc Berkemeier
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Antitrust, Business and Health Care
University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Ricardo E. Diaz
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer
(310) 785-6704
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment and Business
Pepperdine University School of Law
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Raef Cogan
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 7 years of experience
(310) 785-5301
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment and Business
The George Washington University Law School
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Sreelekha Haridas Maruthur
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 10 years of experience
Employment and Business
University of California, Berkeley School of Law and National Academy of Legal Studies & Research (NALSAR) University Hyderabad
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Sonya Tamiry
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Employment and Business
Pepperdine University School of Law
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Sonia Gore
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 1 year of experience
Employment, Business and Real Estate
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Dona Abdo,
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 6 years of experience
Employment, Business, IP and Real Estate
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Omid Nosrati
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 23 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Loyola Law School
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Bryan Joel Freedman
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Employment, Business, Entertainment & Sports and Real Estate
McGeorge School of Law Univ of the Pacific
Attorney Bryan Freedman has a practice dedicated to entertainment, business, copyright, employment, Internet, real estate, and sports law. Bryan represents clients locally in Southern California, as well as throughout the United States and around the world.
Recognized as a renowned entertainment litigator, the Hollywood Reporter named Mr. Freedman one of the “most influential entertainment litigators in the country” for over 10 years in a row. He has also been featured on the publication’s “Top 100 Power Lawyers” list and has been listed in Variety magazine’s 2015 Legal Impact Report, a selective list comprised of only 22 chosen individuals.
Recognized as a renowned...
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Barbara DuVan-Clarke
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
UCLA School of Law and Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Barbara is dedicated to fighting for the rights of California’s employees in both individual and class/PAGA cases. As a working mom, Barbara has a particular passion for vindicating the rights of women who have suffered discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Barbara was also co-counsel on Young v. Department of Public Social Services, et al, a retaliation/whistleblower case, and obtained the 7th highest employment law verdict in California in 2022.
Presently, Barbara and her team focus on litigating class and PAGA actions on behalf of thousands of California employees who have been denied meal and rest periods, denied fair compensation, and...
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Leo Livshits
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 4 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and UCLA School of Law
Leo Livshits is an accomplished employment attorney with extensive trial and litigation experience. Mr. Livshits handles a wide variety of employment matters involving workplace discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and other civil rights violations. Aside from securing numerous seven-figure settlements in single-plaintiff cases, Mr. Livshits has co-chaired jury trials and arbitrations that resulted in verdicts or judgments of $155.4 million, $2.7 million, $1.7 million, and $1 million.
Additionally, Mr. Livshits has successfully litigated appeals in state and federal court. This includes a published decision in Hernandez v. Meridian Management Services, LLC (2023) 87 Cal.App.5th 1214, where the California Court of Appeal found that...
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Lara Heckman
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 2 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
UCLA School of Law
Lara is an associate attorney at Blackstone Law. She graduated from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology with a concentration in Criminal Justice and a minor in Communications. Lara then earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles where she specialized in Critical Race Studies.
While in law school, Lara worked as a law clerk at the District of Columbia Public Defender Service and as a judicial clerk in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Hearings Unit in Los Angeles. She was involved with the El Centro Teen Court Clinic, Disability Law Journal,...
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Karen Gold
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Boston University School of Law and UCLA School of Law
Ms. Gold is an experienced litigation attorney who specializes in class action labor and employment matters.
She spent the first decade of her career at a major law firm working on a wide range of business matters, including defending clients in high-stakes class action litigation. This experience provided Ms. Gold with valuable insight on how to best position cases for settlement and/or trial by allowing her to better understand defendants’ strategies, incentives, and motivations throughout the various phases of litigation.
Ms. Gold then transitioned to a well-known boutique plaintiff-side class action law firm, where she was instrumental in obtaining nearly $100,000,000...
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Alex Favela
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 2 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Stanford Law School
Alex Favela serves as the firm’s Pre-Litigation Attorney and specializes in disputes involving wage and hour violations, misclassification, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, wrongful termination, failure to accommodate violations, and class actions.
Alex received his J.D. from Stanford Law School. As a child of immigrant working-class parents, upholding the dignity of workers is central to Alex’s identity as a lawyer. A person’s job is their livelihood, and Alex strongly believes that workers deserve to be treated with respect and fairness.
Before joining the firm, Alex represented workers at a respected employment plaintiff-side law firm. He has also clerked for the U.S. Office of Special...
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Joana Fang
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 8 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Joana Fang is a Senior Associate Attorney with expertise in class action, employment litigation, personal injury, insurance litigation, and consumer protection laws.
Ms. Fang has extensive experience in case management and all aspects of litigation, from drafting complaints to engaging in the discovery process, settlement negotiations, and preparing for trial. During her legal career, she has recovered millions of dollars for her clients.
Ms. Fang is also a prolific writer who has written and published numerous articles on Law360, The Recorder, and Daily Journal. She has also led seminars on using depositions at trial and on litigating sexual abuse cases against schools...
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Imad Younan Elias
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 33 years of experience
(323) 984-8438
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 750
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Free ConsultationEmployment, Personal Injury and Products Liability
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
Imad Elias is a founding partner of The Law Offices of Mann & Elias, a Los Angeles based law firm handling employment law and personal injury cases.
Contact Mann & Elias at (323) 857-9500 for a free consultation.
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Michael Akopyan
Burbank, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Employment and Personal Injury
Southwestern Univ School of Law
Michael Akopyan received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California in 2001 and his law degree from Southwestern Law School in 2005. Before establishing his own firm in 2009, Michael worked as an associate attorney with Keith Fink & Associates and Solomon, Saltsman & Jamieson, where he represented both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad spectrum of cases including employment cases, personal injury cases, civil rights cases, business disputes, and administrative proceedings. Michael has successfully represented clients in civil and administrative trials and appeals.
Michael has recovered millions of dollars for his clients. He was named to the CaliforniaRising...
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Noriya Bragg
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 1 year of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
University of California, Davis, School of Law
Noriya Bragg is an Associate Attorney at Blackstone Law.
Prior to joining Blackstone Law, she worked as a Law Clerk for a highly respected civil rights firm in Los Angeles where she gained experience working on matters ranging from employment discrimination to police misconduct.
Ms. Bragg holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy of Law from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Ms. Bragg earned her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Davis School of Law (Martin Luther King Jr. Hall), where she worked as a Research Assistant to Professor Irene O. Joe and...
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Annabel Blanchard
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Southwestern University School of Law
Annabel Blanchard is an associate attorney who represents individuals in wage and hour class actions and representative actions under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). Prior to joining Blackstone, PC, Ms. Blanchard worked at a respected plaintiff’s-side employment law firm, where she focused on obtaining court approval of large-scale class and PAGA settlements. Before practicing wage-and-hour employment law, Ms. Blanchard worked at boutique law firms providing estate planning services to families, with a focus on special needs planning and conservatorship. As a part of her estate planning practice, Ms. Blanchard served on the Los Angeles Superior Court “Court Appointed...
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Ryan Block
Burbank, CA Employment Law Attorney
Free ConsultationEmployment and Personal Injury
Ryan Block is a seasoned trial attorney who spends most of his time as a lawyer in the courtroom doing trials. He has done many thousands of trials as the lead attorney and has been in front of over 50 different judges in Los Angeles County and surrounding areas. Mr. Block's familiarity with court personnel along with his innate ability in the jury selection process selecting appropriate jurors has been paramount in maximizing the recovery of his clients. As a member of many plaintiff's attorney associations of Los Angeles including the Jewish Bar association of Los Angeles and the...
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Jemal Kenya Yarbrough
Inglewood, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 25 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Consumer and DUI & DWI
Southwestern Law School
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Ani Markarian Akopyan
Burbank, CA Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Employment and Personal Injury
Southwestern Univ School of Law
Ani M. Akopyan received her bachelor’s degree, with honors, from UCLA in 2001 and her law degree from Southwestern Law School in 2004. Since law school, Ani has worked exclusively in the field of labor and employment litigation. Prior to joining the Akopyan Law Firm, Ani was a member of a well-known, reputable defense firm where she represented employers and their insurance companies in all stages of labor and employment litigation including wrongful termination, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and whistle-blower litigation, as well as high stakes wage & hour class action cases. Ani’s 10+ years of experience in defending employers both...
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Anthony Choe
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney
Employment and Workers' Comp
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Mr. Choe began his legal career in workers’ compensation representing insurance companies and employers. As a defense attorney, he became well versed in the nuances of worker’s compensation laws allowing him to aggressively represent his clients. The Law Offices of Anthony Choe was founded to provide the same aggressive representation to injured workers. Mr. Choe is able to use his experience in dealing with insurance companies and employers for the benefit of injured workers to effectively obtain medical treatment and maximize recovery. What sets the Law Offices of Anthony Choe apart from other firms...
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Aryeh Leichter
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
Fordham University
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Miriam Leigh Schimmel
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles and UCLA School of Law
Ms. Schimmel’s practice is dedicated to employment litigation matters on behalf of California employees. More than half of Ms. Schimmel’s experience has been focused on representing employees in wage and hour class and representative actions for labor code violations (including, but not limited to, claims unpaid overtime, minimum wages, expense reimbursement, meal and rest period), as well as consumer and privacy right matters. Ms. Schimmel’s experience also includes representing employees in wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment and retaliation matters against employers who violate California law. She has successfully prosecuted and resolved hundreds of cases.
Prior to joining Blackstone, Ms. Schimmel...
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Betty Markarian
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 2 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
UCLA School of Law and UCLA School of Law
Betty is an associate attorney at Blackstone Law. She graduated from UCLA with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science with a concentration in International Relations and a minor in Armenian Studies. While in undergrad, Betty, along with fellow classmates, started the Armenian Pre-Law Students Association, to connect Armenian students aspiring to become attorneys to successful alumni within their community. A proud double Bruin, Betty later attended UCLA School of Law, where she obtained her Juris Doctorate.
As a law student, Betty’s professor recognized her articulate writing abilities and selected her as a Legal Research and Writing Advisor for first...
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Garrett Jamal Hines
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Attorney Hines represents employees with claims against their employers for harassment, discrimination, retaliation and Labor Code violations.
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P.J. Van Ert
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
UCLA School of Law
P.J. Van Ert is a seasoned trial lawyer and civil litigator specializing in class actions and individual employment matters. As a Blackstone law associate she dedicates her practice to California employees. After more than 75 criminal jury trials during thirteen years as a deputy district attorney, she transitioned to civil litigation and found her way to Blackstone. From wage and hour theft to sexual harassment and hostile work environment, she is able to utilize her years of zealously advocating for victims of crime to get superior results in employment cases. Ms. Van Ert has earned guilty verdicts in lengthy homicide...
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Dr. Mark Wayne Dundee
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
(310) 551-5600
1925 Century Park East
Suite 1500
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Securities and Tax
Harvard Law School, University of Leicester School of Law, University of San Diego School of Law, University of Beijing (Normal College of Law) and Oxford University (Magdalen College of Law)
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Laura Lynn Horton
Northridge, CA Employment Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Personal Injury
Pepperdine Univ School of Law
Laura Horton is a seasoned advocate, dedicated to social justice. With nearly three decades of experience, she represents employees from all walks of life – from factory workers to highly compensated executives. Helping to right wrongs is her passion.
In April 2001, Ms. Horton opened her own firm, practicing exclusively in civil rights, labor and employment law and serious personal injury.
Ms. Horton is admitted to practice by the State Bar of California; United States Supreme Court; United States District Court, Central District; District of Hawaii; and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She is...
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Kenneth Gary Ruttenberg
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
(310) 979-7080
1901 Avenue of the Stars
Suite 1020
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Construction, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Ken Ruttenberg is the founder of The Ruttenberg Law Firm, P.C.. He is an experienced and seasoned civil litigator in a broad range of legal areas including employment, construction and personal injury.
In 2014 through 2017, Ken was selected to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers, a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Fewer than five percent of attorneys receive the Super Lawyers recognition. In 2015, 2016 and 2017, Ken was named among the Top 100 Southern California Super Lawyers. Ken is also an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review...
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Brandon Mead
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Antitrust, Business and IP
Chapman University Fowler School of Law
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John S. Cha
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 37 years of experience
(310) 440-4100
1800 Avenue of the Stars
12th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment, Insurance Defense and Real Estate
University of Washington School of Law
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Stephan Math
Westlake Village, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 50 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Administrative and Education
Loyola Law School
I entered Loyola Law School’s evening program in September 1968 where during my tenure I represented indigent people as part of the school’s law clinic program. Also, having excelled in legal writing and moot court competition, finishing as a semi finalist, I was, in my last year as a student given a Teaching Fellowship where I was privileged to teach first year law students the basics of legal writing and prepare them for moot court competition. While in law school I was employed full time by the American Arbitration Association as Assistant to the Regional Director where I was able...
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Cassandra Frias
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer
(310) 201-3541
1900 Avenue of the Stars
7th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment and Business
UCLA School of Law
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Tre Lovell
Century City, CA Employment Law Attorney with 32 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Entertainment & Sports and IP
University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
With more than 20 years of experience, Tre Lovell has been noted among the elite trial lawyers in the nation, having been named "Lawyer of the Year" Finalist, 2016, by the Los Angeles Business Journal, and further honored by The National Law Journal as one of the Top 50 Litigation Trailblazers in the United States. Mr. Lovell has been recognized among the top 1% of attorneys in the country as a litigator through such esteemed organizations as America's Top 100 Attorneys, Distinguished Justice Advocates, National Academy of Jurisprudence, Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Rue's Best Attorneys of America. In addition,...
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Joshua Samson Falakassa
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 11 years of experience
(916) 680-8486
1901 Avenue of the Stars
Suite #450
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
My practice focuses on vindicating employees’ rights in single plaintiff discrimination suits, wage & hour class and representative action litigation, and other employment claims.
Education
I received his Bachelor of Arts in History, summa cum laude, with a minor in Public Affairs from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). I earned his Juris Doctor from UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where he was awarded a Prosser Prize for his academic achievement.
Experience
As a former associate at Anderson Kill P.C., a Vault 150 leading mid-size law firm specializing in insurance coverage litigation, I gained significant experience litigating against insurance companies on behalf...