due to confidentiality, no individual names or employers listed
Severance Agreements and General Releases
- Negotiated increased severance pay for a casino executive VP fired after reporting discrimination
- Negotiated an exit strategy and severance agreement for a media professional experiencing inappropriate sexual advances by a colleague
- Negotiated increased severance pay for a nurse fired after informing her hospital employer of a cancer recurrence
- Negotiated an exit strategy and severance agreement for a retail beauty manager experiencing racial discrimination
- Negotiated increased severance pay for a janitor fired from his religious employer
- Negotiated a waiver of relocation repayment obligations and employment release agreement for an investment wholesaler
- Negotiated an exit strategy and severance agreement for a visa-holding talent acquisition executive experiencing gender discrimination
- Represented a human resources manager at an EEOC Mediation for workplace discrimination claims, which resulted in increased severance pay
Discrimination and Harassment
- Settled a warehouse assistant‘s disability and pregnancy discrimination allegations after she was harassed for taking time off for medical care, including a threat of termination when she was taken by ambulance to the emergency room
- Court settlement for a truck driver‘s termination lawsuit alleging racial discrimination and discriminatory discipline procedures
- Represented a chemical safety inspector at an EEOC Mediation for workplace injury and disability discrimination claims, which resulted in increased severance pay
- Survived a 12(b)(6) Motion to Dismiss for a terminated financial professional fired after reporting sexual harassment and discrimination
- Settled a pregnant office manager‘s pregnancy discrimination case, after she was fired when she told her employer she was pregnant
- Settled a warehouse worker‘s pregnancy discrimination case, after she was harassed for missing work for childbirth
- Settled a medical assistant‘s pregnancy discrimination case, after she took a leave of absence due to COVID-19
- Settled an executive CIO‘s religious and racial discrimination allegations
- Settled a newspaper worker‘s allegations of termination based on race, after he reported a co-worker calling him the N-word
- Court settlement for a warehouse manager who alleged sexual orientation discrimination
- Settled a dietary specialist‘s diabetes discrimination case, after he was threatened with termination for asking to check his blood sugar
Unpaid Bonus and Commissions
- Won summary judgment for software consulting company owed unpaid compensation and commissions for independent contractor work completed worldwide
- Settled unpaid commissions lawsuit for lighting sales executive
- Advised a marketing executive on a co-investment opportunity offered by a private equity team
- Settled unpaid bonus and commission wage complaint filed by a sales executive promised extra compensation
Job Reinstatement
- Negotiated backpay and job reinstatement for a suburban forklift driver fired for taking time off from work to visit his minor son in the hospital
- Negotiated return to work for disabled customer service employee instructed not to return to work until cured
- Negotiated return to work for a disabled software developer needing a work from home accommodation
Unemployment Benefits Eligibility
- Won an unemployment appeals hearing for a suburban bank manager accused of job performance “misconduct”
- Won an unemployment appeals hearing for a Chicago teacher accused of time and attendance “misconduct” for missing work due to hospitalization
- Successfully appealed the denial of benefits to Board of Review for a casino worker fired for job performance “misconduct”
- Successfully appealed the denial of benefits to Board of Review for a Board-certified oral surgeon’s assistant accused of “voluntary leave”
- Successfully appealed the denial of benefits to Board of Review for a loan specialist accused of time and attendance “misconduct”