AVVO LAW

Avvo law is a paid subscription service for attorneys. While its rating system has a slight resemblance to length of time practiced, attorneys can considerably improve their ratings by responding to posts. A rating of 10.0 does not mean the attorney is well respected in the legal industry, has won 10 out of 10 of their cases, is one the best attorneys in the city let alone country, or capable of handling a complicated case that is difficult to win in court.

Firm Head, Karl Gerber became licensed in 1993. Immediately he began representing employees. The attorneys who pay AVVO or lawyers.com for subscriptions have not been doing nothing but representing employees since 1993. Karl Gerber won 46/48 of the jury trials and binding arbitrations he first chaired. He has handled more than 1,830 separate employee lawsuits. In the last five years alone he has represented tens of thousands of employees in class actions, other forms of representative actions such as FLSA actions, and PAGA actions. He has also handled many appeals for clients including some following trial wins when the client needed their wins preserved as well as pre-trial appeals with favorable outcomes. He has written more than 1,000 articles on employment law, and broadcast on the radio https://workplacelawyer.org for years.

The Employment Lawyers Group only employs experienced employee lawyers. They have been in business since 1993. Unfortunately many law firms claiming to represent employees are mills. They take on too many cases including ones that cannot be won. Many of these firms think they will be able to settle. What they will get in settlement is often viewed by the Employment Lawyers Group as a waste of the client’s time.

Our law firm does not rely on third-party lead generating services like Avvo Law or lawyers.com. Our prolific and longstanding practice in the field provides a stream of case inquiries. We only take cases we can win in binding arbitration or trial. While many cases ultimately settle an employment lawyer must be prepared to prove and win the case.

LAWYERS.COM

The Employment Lawyers Group has multiple offices. We serve employees in all geographies from Chula Vista to the South to Bakersfield and Oildale to the North. Going east we cover Riverside and San Bernardino. Along the coast we have offices in Oxnard. While our law firm started in Sherman Oaks and we maintain a headquarters in the same location we have owned since 1999, we also have a downtown Los Angeles office. With offices throughout Southern California and a reputation in the community for representing employees in important cases, we do not rely on lawyers.com or a third-party lead generating company for our leads.
The cases the Employment Lawyers Group takes must be capable of being won in binding arbitration or court. We will not take cases a lay person thinks constitutes a legal violation if established case law holds it does not. Nor will we take cases brought out of spite by employees who claim they are not looking for monetary recovery, but in the end want to hold out for a large settlement the employer will never offer.

Call 877-525-0700 for an experienced employee lawyer. Please let us ask the right questions. Unless you have been representing more employees for a longer period of time than just about everybody else in Southern California you will do a dis-service by trying to impress the lawyer with your knowledge of the law or what you think is relevant. We are to the point. Either you have a winnable case or you don’t. After screening far more than 100,000 new client calls the lawyers who answer our phones can tell if you have a case in less than three minutes. That is what expertise is. You do not need to fill out long forms online. Let us ask maybe 10 questions to determine if you have a winnable case. If this sounds arrogant we apologize, but nearly 30 years of experience doing a smash bang job should enable to the attorney to do it right and do it fast.

LOS ANGELES MINIMUM WAGE

Besides Avvo Law and Lawyers.com being places where clients may go to find a lawyer who looks good for that site, but is not experienced, statistics show our clients are spending a lot of time trying to find out what the minimum wage is in Los Angeles. This page does not state an amount for one very good reason. The minimum wage in Los Angeles is different in the City of Los Angeles than the County of Los Angeles, is different for various jobs, and is different for different cities. Whatever figure we might quote in this post will not be true in a year’s time. If you think you were not paid minimum wage call 877-525-0700 and we will figure out if there is an issue.

Minimum wage violations have occurred most frequently with piece rate pay and app drivers. The voters were defrauded into voting that app drivers should be considered independent contractors. Unless that law is repealed we will not be representing app drivers who end up not earning minimum wage through those abusive labor practices. If you were paid in cash and generally cheated out of labor laws such as not being paid minimum wage we want your call! We are here to assist or represent employees who have suffered labor abuses. A failure to pay minimum wage is a labor abuse.

Cases for minimum wage abuse also occur when employees are on controlled standby, but they are not paid for the time spent waiting to be called to work. A failure to pay overtime also leads to minimum wage violations. A 10 hour day without compensation for the two hours of overtime can create sub-minimum wage for the 8 hours worked.

Although not a guarantee nor prediction of case values, our firm:

• Recovered millions for unpaid controlled standby pay leading to minimum wage violations
• Obtained class action approval for a case in which largely undocumented workers and
  convicted felons were paid sub-minimum wage due to piece-rates
• Resolved a case for security officers not paid minimum wage

Call 877-525-0700 for an experienced wage theft attorney