Practice Areas

It is illegal for an employer to discriminate against you if you belong to a protected class.

Negotiating an employment contract or reviewing a severance agreement?

Conspiracy between companies to keep employee wages low?

Mass layoff without advance notice?

Your 401(k), pension, or retirement plan should never be mismanaged or hijacked for someone else's benefit.

Discrimination takes many forms and can happen in a wide variety of places. You may face discrimination in employment, housing, school, or in financial transactions, such as when you try to get a loan or buy a car.

Employers generally cannot discriminate against you because of your age, disability, gender, military status, national origin, race, and in some states, sexual orientation, or religion. Employees may also have protections against sexual harassment and pregnancy discrimination, as they are forms of gender discrimination.

People who are trying to rent or buy a place to live have rights. The Fair Housing Act makes it illegal to discriminate based on race, color, national origin, religion, sex, and family status when it comes to the sale, financing, or rental of housing.

Some prisoners are being deprived of their basic civil rights. For example, prisoners may be knowingly detained in unsanitary conditions that jeopardize their health. Not only are the prison conditions unsanitary but some prison officials and the private corporate operators are denying prisoners their right to the most basic medical care despite being on notice of the unsafe conditions.

If you know about fraud, waste, or abuse of taxpayer dollars, you may be able to do something about it.  A qui tam lawsuit is an action brought by whistleblowers on behalf of the government against an individual or business that is defrauding the government.  Successful whistleblowers may be able to share in the government’s recovery.  The most common type of qui tam action is brought under the…

Every student deserves equal access to education no matter the student’s race, color, national origin, disability, religion, orientation, identity, or sex. Student loan companies and the companies that they work with may be taking advantage of borrowers. Some for-profit schools simply don’t have their students’ best interests in mind and will do whatever it takes to increase profits.