# Employee Rights Lawyer Los Angeles, Sexual Harassment > Our worker rights lawyers help employees if they are forced to quit their jobs, wrongfully terminated, owed wages, or are sexually harassed Source: https://employeelawca.com/lawyers-for-employees/ Firm: Employment Lawyers Group — employee-side employment lawyers since 1993. Serving Los Angeles County, California. Phone: (323) 525-1600 (calling is the fastest way to reach the legal team) Office: 13418 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Contact form: https://employeelawca.com/contact/ Consultations are free and confidential; cases are taken on contingency. --- All of our employee attorneys have been licensed to practice employment law for in excess of ten years. On average, our Los Angeles employee lawyers have practiced law for sixteen years. Firm founder, Karl Gerber, has been an employment attorney since 1993. The rest of our employee lawyers have either exclusively represented employees, for the entire duration of their careers, or for more than ten years. To read more about our employee lawyers, CLICK HERE **[Karl Gerber](https://employeelawca.com/employment-law-lawyers/)** We only take employee cases on a contingency which means we are only paid when and if we are able to collect money from the defendant employer **CALL****[(323) 525-1600](tel:3235251600)****TO SPEAK TO OUR EXPERIENCED LAWYERS FOR EMPLOYEES** ## **WHAT DO EMPLOYEE ATTORNEYS DO?** You can expect the following types of services from our employee attorneys: 1. We prepare and file all employment lawsuits in Superior Court, Federal Court, or initiate binding arbitration if you signed an agreement for your employer to arbitrate all disputes with you. Before doing so we exhaust administrative remedies with government organizations such as the Department of Fair Housing and Employment or Department of Labor Standards Enforcement (the Labor Board/Commission to the public). 2. We conduct discovery into your job harassment, discrimination at work, wrongful termination, or your employer's failure to properly pay you wages. This means we serve your employer with document demands, special interrogatories (questions), we subpoena third-party witnesses, and notice the depositions of witnesses still employed by your attorney. We also defend our employee clients when the defense lawyer deposes them. 3. We file and respond to all necessary court motions, and we do a good job. Besides keeping updated on California employment law, previously we have dealt with most issues that come up in a California employee lawsuit. Our brief bank is immense. Firm founder, Karl Gerber, has written over 400 articles on employment law, three novels, and a number of winning appellate briefs. He personally edits all briefs he does not write himself. 4. EMPLOYEE LAWYER MAGAZINES 5. We conduct considerable legal research into your employment case. Besides having a hard print library of California cases, codes, and a variety of practice books that cost our firm many thousands of dollars a month, we read most conceivable daily and monthly updates on every new California employment case, development, and statute. We also subscribe to Westlaw which provides us with online access to all California and Federal Law as well as many treatises on law. 6. We evaluate our employment cases. Firm founder, Karl Gerber, reviews all files in this evaluation process. In case meetings with our firm attorneys, he and the firm lawyer discuss the case and look at all necessary documents. Commonly, Karl Gerber also takes the depositions in the cases and attends the case mediations. In this evaluation process along with the consent our of clients we determine if the employee lawsuit should be settled, when, and for how much. 7. We write mediation and/or settlement conference briefs and then attend the mediations or settlement conferences. 8. If the case does not settle we prepare the case for trial. This involves filing witness lists, motions in limine, serving subpoenas, demanding witnesses employed by the employer appear, making outlines for questions to ask, preparing trial notebooks, exhibit books, writing opening statements, and spending significant time preparing our client for their trial testimony. Throughout the process we strategize with our clients. While we prefer in-person meetings with our clients, or telephone calls, there may also be e-mail communications. We typically form long lasting relationships with our clients while helping them through difficult times. ***For more information about how our employee attorneys work, CALL******[(323) 525-1600](tel:3235251600)*** ## **EMPLOYEE WRONGFUL TERMINATION** While many of our employee lawsuits involve a wrongful job termination, we also handle cases involving straight harassment at work, discrimination, or unpaid wages. The damages for these different types of employment wrongs involve damages for emotional suffering if there is a job termination, discrimination, or harassment. Past and future lost wages are sought for unlawful job terminations, but may also be sought for debilitating harassment or discrimination at work. **For more information about Wrongful Termination Click Here****[WRONGFUL TERMINATION](https://employeelawca.com/los-angeles-wrongful-termination-lawyer/)** Cases involving unpaid bonuses, commissions, minimum wage, overtime, prevailing wage, or rest breaks may involve statutory damages. Statutory damages include penalties for late payments, or non-payment of wages. They also include the rate of pay Cases involving unpaid bonuses, commissions, minimum wage, overtime, prevailing wage, or rest breaks may involve statutory damages. Statutory damages include penalties for late payments, or non-payment of wages. They also include the rate of pay at double time or overtime. Other unpaid wage cases such as unpaid bonuses or commissions may involve an employment contract. 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We are only paid a fee **when and if we win** your case, and we **advance all litigation costs**. Our goal is to make expert legal representation accessible to every hardworking employee. ### Serving Los Angeles County We have proudly served all of Los Angeles County since 1993. Ready to discuss your case? (323) 525-1600 Submit A Contact Form The Employment Lawyers Group has successfully handled 2,000+ Separate California Employment Cases ## Media Engagements ## Sample Case Results breach of commission contract $1,150,000 Unpaid commissions of two plaintiffs unpaid wages $875,000 For 4 oil field service industry workers whose times worked were not recorded on timesheets and were on-call forced to work without pay standby pay case $800,000 Controlled stand by class action settlement Disclaimer: These results are based on the facts of these specific cases and do not guarantee or predict a similar result in any future case. ## Practice Areas [Discrimination Age, Disability, FMLA/CFRA, Gender, National Origin, Pregnancy, Race, and Sexual Orientation discrimination claims.](https://employeelawca.com/discrimination-lawyer-in-los-angeles/) [Unpaid Wages & Overtime Recovering earnings for overtime, bonuses, commissions, meal & rest break violations, and prevailing wage claims.](https://employeelawca.com/unpaid-wages/) [Sexual Harassment Compassionate and effective representation for sexual harassment and hostile work environment claims.](https://employeelawca.com/sexual-harassment/) [Wrongful Termination Representing employees terminated in violation of public policy, contracts, or California and federal law.](https://employeelawca.com/wrongful-termination/) [Leaves & Retaliation Protecting employees who face adverse actions after reporting illegal activity or taking protected medical leave.](https://employeelawca.com/absences/) [Whistleblowers Advocating for employees who report fraud, waste, or abuse under California and federal whistleblower protection laws.](https://employeelawca.com/los-angeles-financial-whistleblower/) ## Our California Locations ### Bakersfield [BakersfieldLaborAttorney.com](https://bakersfieldlaborattorney.com) 5401 Business Park S, #214, Bakersfield CA 93309 [(661) 412-9600](tel:6614129600) ### Los Angeles [EmployeeLawCA.com](https://employeelawca.com/) 611 Wilshire Blvd, #1023, Los Angeles CA 90017 [(323) 525-1600](tel:3235251600) ### Orange County [WorkLawyerOC.com](https://worklawyeroc.com) 2522 Chambers Rd, #100, Tustin CA 92780 [(714) 210-8000](tel:7142108000) ### Riverside [RiversideEmploymentLawyer.com](https://riversideemploymentlawyer.com) 9496 Magnolia Ave, #208, Riverside CA 92503 [(951) 367-1000](tel:9513671000) ### Sacramento [SacramentoLaborAttorney.com](https://sacramentolaborattorney.com) 777 Campus Commons Rd, #200, Sacramento CA 95825 [(916) 340-0000](tel:9163400000) ### San Bernardino [EmploymentAttorneySanBernardino.com](https://employmentattorneysanbernardino.com) 337 N. 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He has represented a wide range of employees throughout California. Mr. Gerber has won **51 of the binding arbitrations and jury trials** he first chaired, and a number of his appeals are published. This deep trial experience is the foundation of the firm's strategic approach to litigation. The employment attorneys employed by the Employment Lawyers Group have worked at the firm well in excess of five years, have also tried many different labor cases, and have all been **extensively trained on employment and wrongful termination law by Karl Gerber**. [Meet Karl Gerber](https://employeelawca.com/karl-gerber/) ## Ready to Discuss Your Case? Your rights as an employee matter. Submit a contact form and we'll get back to you. Submit A Contact Form [Call (323) 525-1600 Now](tel:3235251600)