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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...
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Cyndie Marie Chang
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
Employment, Antitrust, Business and IP
Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Cyndie M. Chang is the Managing Partner of the firm's Los Angeles office and a member of the firm's governing Partners Board. Ms. Chang manages risks and resolves business challenges. She advises and partners with clients to defend them in commercial disputes, enforce their rights, mitigate exposure, and litigate their commercial disputes. She has often handled corporate litigation involving mergers & acquisitions, asset or stock sales, fraud, securities, purchase and sale agreements, business or partner break-ups. She also has handle many other complex or class action disputes involving contracts, trademarks, licensing, products liability, product safety and recall, construction defect, trade...
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Eugene David Lee
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 28 years of experience
Employment
University of Michigan Law School
The Law Office of Eugene Lee is committed to representing employees in California who seek to protect their legal rights in the workplace. We are located in the heart of downtown Los Angeles and serve the surrounding communities.
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Stacey R. Cutting
Sherman Oaks, CA Employment Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
Employment, Consumer, Insurance Claims and Real Estate
University of La Verne College of Law and California State University - Northridge
Attorney Stacey Cutting brings ample amounts of experience and skills to Schimmel & Parks, APLC and is a devoted Southern California civil litigation lawyer. While she highly skilled in various areas of law, Attorney Cutting focuses much of her practice handling cases involving construction defects, personal injury, employment law, insurance bad faith, and consumer class actions. She plays an essential role in the discovery processes of cases, completes trial preparations, creates motion papers, and assists with various key parts of litigation processes. Before committing her life to judiciary work, Attorney Cutting attended California State University, Northridge, where she earned her...
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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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Imad Younan Elias
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 32 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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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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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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Rotem Tamir
West Hollywood, CA Employment Law Attorney
(818) 770-9333
1155 North La Cienega Boulevard
Unit 711
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Free ConsultationEmployment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Mr. Tamir has dedicated his entire career to practicing labor and employment law. He has litigated hundreds of employment-related cases, including claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and wage and hour (i.e. overtime, meal & rest breaks, misclassification). The results speak for themselves, he has successfully settled and won numerous cases and dispositive motions.
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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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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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Maryam Abrishamcar
Sherman Oaks, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 7 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment and Personal Injury
Maryam Abrishamcar, Esq. is the Founder and Managing Partner at Abrishamcar Law Group, A.P.C.
She is a compassionate and adept attorney, serving clients throughout Northern & Southern California. With a neuroscience background and previous history in the pharmaceutical industry, she offers her clients a unique perspective. Attorney Maryam Abrishamcar is passionate about providing high level care and support to individuals who have suffered serious injury, including injuries to the brain (TBI).
Ms. Abrishamcar is proficient in the legal practices of car accidents, slip and fall cases, motorcycle crashes, dog bites, wrongful death, and employment law.
Maryam Abrishamcar earned her J.D....
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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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Alexander Krown Spellman
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 17 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
Alex is a Senior Associate Attorney at Blackstone Law. Alex is an active member of the legal community as it relates to employees’ rights. Alex is a member of the California Employment Lawyers’ Association (CELA), and is on the committee for the Mentor Committee, the Women’s Committee, the Legislative Committee, the Wage and Hour Committee, and the New Member Committee, as well as a recent admit to the 2024 – 2025 CELA Leadership Conservatory.
Alex has significant experience providing the best counsel for his clients, whether through trial, or through multimillion dollar settlements, or through whatever need the client may describe....
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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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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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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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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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Ashley Cruz
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Ashley Cruz is an employment attorney who has spent her entire career pursuing justice and advocating for people across the United States. Her passion for upholding, asserting, and defending the rights of others has guided her throughout her career. Ashley has represented children in abuse and neglect proceedings, individuals and families in deportation proceedings, and workers actively seeking legal recourse. Her self-imposed requirement for nothing less than excellent representation, coupled with her dedication to helping others, has received praise from clients, judges, mediators, and fellow professionals.
Ashley litigates in the area of labor and employment law. She has handled harassment, discrimination,...
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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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Matthew Dietz
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
(310) 956-4054
8383 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 745
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Employment
Washington University in St. Louis
Mr. Dietz has aggressively litigated civil cases in California for over a decade. He has represented government agencies in high-profile employment law, general liability and civil rights matters, including representing some of the largest school districts in California. His prior experience includes working at one of the largest firms in the U.S., as well as a highly respected litigation boutique, where he represented the full gamut of businesses from Fortune 500 companies to mom-and-pop shops in employment and business litigation matters in state and federal court and administrative bodies. Over the course of his career, Mr. Dietz...
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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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Korosh Levian
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 21 years of experience
(888) 885-0529
1875 Century Park East, Suite 1025
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Free ConsultationEmployment and Personal Injury
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
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Gerald Lawrence Sauer
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 40 years of experience
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and IP
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco and University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
Gerald Sauer has over 35 years of extensive jury trial experience and has handled numerous matters in alternative dispute resolution forums including arbitration and mediation. He has briefed and argued in both federal and state courts, as well as participated in oral argument before the California Supreme Court. He utilizes a pragmatic approach in helping employees assess their claims and finding the most desirable path to a resolution.
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Sonya Devorah Goodwin
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Employment
UCLA School of Law
Sonya Goodwin has extensive experience in federal and state courts and has handled numerous arbitrations exclusively in employment law. She has assisted clients in settling disputes through numerous direct negotiations and private mediations. Her experience in representing both employees and employers has given her the ability to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a case from the perspectives of both plaintiff and defense counsel.
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Anthony J. Zaller
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 21 years of experience
(213) 996-8445
555 West Fifth Street, Suite 3100
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Employment
Loyola Law School
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Alex Bruno
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney
Employment, Appeals, Bankruptcy and IP
UCLA Law School
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Mehrdad Bokhour
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 12 years of experience
(310) 975-1493
1901 Avenue of the Stars
Suite 450
Los Angeles, CA 90067
Employment
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Mehrdad Bokhour is the founder of Bokhour Law Group, P.C.
A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and Loyola Law School, Mr. Bokhour is admitted to practice law in the State of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Central, Eastern, and Southern Districts of
California.
Mr. Bokhour has dedicated his entire career to exclusively representing employees in individual and class action employment matters. Mr. Bokhour litigates wage and hour class actions and representative actions under the Private Attorneys General Act. Likewise, Mr. Bokhour vigorously prosecutes cases...
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David R. Denis
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationEmployment
Southwestern Law School
We have recovered Millions of Dollars for our clients. The firm was established in 1998 in the Sunset & Vine towers in Los Angeles. The firm partnered up with a famous immigration and civil lawyer on Mid-Wilshire. The firm experienced tremendous success after the split. The firm has been in Downtown since 1992 where we continue to help people every day with all kinds of employment situations. We are now on Wilshire and Figueroa in one of the most prestigious buildings in Downtown Los Angeles. Located in the Heart of Downtown Los Angeles, the Extreme Justice® team and Mr....
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Donald Arthur Hilland
San Fernando, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 19 years of experience
Employment, Civil Rights, Family and Personal Injury
Univ of West Los Angeles
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Stephen Morton Rinka
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 22 years of experience
(877) 778-8678
9440 Santa Monica Blvd.
Ste 301
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Employment, Business and Personal Injury
Southwestern Univ School of Law
Stephen M. Rinka’s experience draws on a litigation background that is both diverse and complex, which allows him to provide his clients with sound legal advice on a wide range of legal matters. In particular, Stephen has successfully represented companies and individuals in employment disputes in both state and federal courts. These employment disputes have involved claims relating to discrimination, harassment, wrongful termination and wage and hour claims. Stephen has also represented clients in high stakes business disputes involving breach of contract, fraud and deceptive business practices. In addition to Stephen’s employment and business litigation background, he...
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Conal Doyle
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 27 years of experience
Employment, Civil Rights, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Conal Doyle is known as a passionate advocate for those members of society that need representation the most. He represents plaintiffs in trial and appellate courts in a broad range of civil litigation. Mr. Doyle has tried cases to jury verdict in state and federal trial courts and argued before the United States Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. His verdict in Castaneda v. State of California was named as one of 2010's Top 10 Verdicts by Impact in California by the Daily Journal, California's daily legal newspaper.
Mr. Doyle has forged a national reputation for successfully litigating...
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Michael M. Astanehe
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Employment and Landlord Tenant
University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
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Arnold Philimon Peter
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 40 years of experience
Employment, Social Security Disability and Workers' Comp
Loyola Law School
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Daniel L. Warshaw
Sherman Oaks, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Employment, Antitrust, Business and Consumer
Whittier Coll School of Law
Daniel L. Warshaw is a civil litigator and trial lawyer focusing on Complex Litigation, Class Actions, Employment law, Business Litigation, Product Liability, Unfair Competition Law and Consumer Protection. Mr. Warshaw is a member of the State Bar of California; U.S. District Court, Central District of California; U.S. District Court, Northern District of California; U.S. District Court, Southern District of California; and U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. He attended the University of Southern California (B.S., 1992); Whittier College School of Law (J.D., 1996).
Daniel L. Warshaw has attained Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating (AV) for legal ability and ethical standards. Member: Los Angeles...
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Jeffrey Steven Pop
Beverly Hills, CA Employment Law Attorney with 53 years of experience
(310) 273-5462
9107 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 700
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Employment and Products Liability
California Western School of Law
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Mr. Anish Vashistha
Los Angeles, CA Employment Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
(323) 592-9980
5055 Wilshire Blvd., Ste. #320
Los Angeles, CA 90036-6101
Employment, Administrative, Appeals and Immigration
Georgetown University Law Center