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Eisenberg & Associates

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We've handled approximately 600 wrongful termination cases since our firm started business.

In almost every wrongful termination case, the pattern is the same. The company unlawfully fires an employee. The employee sues the company for the wrongful termination. In response, the company comes up with some lie to justify why they fired the employee.

When it comes to this phase of the case, a lot of lawyers get cold feet and try to settle the lawsuit since they don't have the tools or the skills to uncover the truth.

But that's when our lawyers turn up the heat. With our team of technologically sophisticated investigators and lawyers, we find that key piece of evidence that will blow the company's story out of the water.

And then we make the company pay for it.

Here are some of our recent office victories.^* And remember, these clients are not highly-paid corporate executives; they are hard-working California employees just like you. The terrific results we obtain are because we believe in our clients and we diligently prosecute every case. As a result, we maximize our client's case value.

Workers for a company installing office communication devices were forced to work oppressive hours and were not getting paid overtime. A group of the workers were fed up with this practice which made the company richer while they were only getting paid straight time. As such, they decided to take their employer to court and seek unpaid overtime, interest, penalties and all of their attorneys' fees.	Result: $900,000.00
A 6-month employee working as a security officer, earning $9.50 per hour, is fired in retaliation for his complaints about racial discrimination. The company tried to convince the jury that our client was terminated for "missing a mandatory meeting." It was undisputed that our client missed that meeting. However, we found the former employee who witnessed our client getting permission to miss that meeting. Our client sustained only about $3,000 in lost wages.	Result: $318,637.97
A group of service technicians worked long hours and were not given rest breaks or lunch breaks. Many of them decided to sue instead of endure these oppressive working conditions.	Result: $1,600,000.00
An office administrator earned $9/hour and worked for a firm for under two years. She starts experiencing harassment from a co-worker. When she complained about the harassment, she was fired within days. The company tried to allege that our client was fired due to "insubordination." We took depositions of all of the witnesses of the alleged “insubordination” and we found out that the company’s story just didn’t hold up.	Result: $760,000.00
A young man worked in a hospital and sustained a work injury on the job while he was moving a patient. As a result of this work injury, the employee required accommodations to do his job. Instead of accommodating the employee, he was fired. Then, the company tries to cover up its actions and claim the employee "quit." We found an out-of-state, ex- employee of the hospital who wanted to come clean and tell what really happened.	Result: $1,020,000.00
A clerk worked for a company for less than one month. On the job, he was sexually harassed by his supervisor. Our client complained about the harassment and was fired shortly thereafter. Our client only sustained about $5,000 in lost wages before finding a better job.	Result: $300,000.00
A nursing assistant worked for a hospital and earned $11 per hour. That employee complained that she was being subjected to discrimination based on her race. Shortly thereafter, she was fired. The employer alleged that the employee was terminated due to insubordination. Through extensive investigation, we found out that there was no such insubordination and that the company most likely fired the employee in retaliation for her complaints of discrimination.	Result: $685,000.00
A research assistant worked for a lab and earned $18 per hour. When she became pregnant, she started suffering from morning sickness. Of course, this caused the employee to be late to work on occasion and she sometimes missed work altogether as a result of these pregnancy-related medical conditions. Her supervisor, instead of having sympathy for what our client was going through, wrote her up and disciplined her for her attendance.	Result: $116,000.00
A nursing home employee suspects patient neglect so she registers a complaint with the corporate compliance line. She was fired one week later for allegedly tampering with her personnel file. Although it was undisputed that she tampered with the file, we still proved that the motivating factor behind her termination was her complaint of patient neglect. After her termination, our client was only out of work for about one month before finding a better job.	Result: $300,000.00
An administrator from a nursing home decided to terminate based on sexual orientation. Although the company alleged that poor performance was the reasoning, we found ex-employees who said just the opposite.	Result: $440,000.00
A young woman worked at a retail store, earning $2,000 per month. She was propositioned by her manager. Frustrated, she complained about the harassment to human resources. After the manger found out that the employee complained about him, he made her life miserable and she was forced to quit. The company tried to say that no harassment ever took place but we found other employees who were propositioned by the same manager.	Result: $200,000.00
Our client was a social worker earned $10.50 per hour at her employer’s facility. This employee was being harassed by her supervisor and our client felt that the harassment stemmed from the supervisor’s prejudice. Our client complained to the HR hotline about this and was fired about two weeks after the complaint. We alleged that the termination was in retaliation for the complaint of discrimination and the company alleged that our client was “insubordinate.” We proved that the “insubordination’ theory was bogus and that the termination was more likely motivated by the discrimination complaint. Our client worked for this company for about four months.	Result: $395,000.00
A Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) earning $8 per hour became pregnant and received a lift restriction of 15 pounds. When she submitted her work restriction to the nursing home owner, the owner told the CNA that she could use a CNA with such a work restriction. The owner told the CNA to “go to the state for help” and fired her. When we sued the nursing home, their story changed. The owners lied and said that they never fired this CNA. Under intense cross examination, one of the owners slipped up and admitted that the CNA was fired because of the work restriction	Result: $172,696.07
An African American employee earning about $10 per hour was the subject of discriminatory comments by his supervisor. He complained about it and was fired about a week later for some bogus reason. Our client had under $4,000 in lost wages.	Result: $447,000.00
An African American male worked as a watch commander at a security company earned $11 per hour. After working for only two months at the company, he complained to his boss that a white co-worker called another African American employee a "gorilla." He was fired the next week and sustained only about $6,000 in actual lost wages until finding another job. The company lied and tried to say that the employee "quit." We found an ex-employee (that the company tried to hide from us) who told us the whole story.	Result: $227,913.65
A 60+ year old machinist was fired from his job for his faulty repair job on a certain machine (which our client was actually guilty of). Our client claimed that in the last few years of his employment, his supervisor made derogatory comments about his age. The supervisor denied making these comments. After speaking to nearly a dozen other employees, we could not corroborate our client's claims. Then, we located an ex employee who heard these age-related comments.	Result: $200,000.00
A male machinist earned $1,900 per month working for an automotive supply company. He complained to his boss about certain workplace safety violations. Instead of fixing the problems that were addressed, the company terminated the complainer. The company tried to claim that the employee was fired for being responsible for injuring another employee of the job. We proved that the employee was not at fault for the injury and that the company was using this as an excuse to fire the complaining worker.	Result: $150,000.00
A young woman worked at a day-care facility and earned $10.00 per hour. She felt that one of the other employees was too rough with a child and she went to the county to complain of child abuse. No findings of abuse were made by the county agency when the investigation was concluded. However, the employee was nevertheless fired shortly thereafter. The employee got another job relatively soon and sustained only about $5,000 in lost wages.	Result: $215,000.00
An $11 per hour African American employee was terminated by a racist supervisor. That racist gave some phony reason why he terminated our client but we showed it to be a cover-up for the discriminatory firing. After only a few months of unemployment, our client got another job. Nevertheless, we made the company pay for standing behind the racist supervisor.	Result: $365,000.00
A 61-year old event planner for a catering company was discharged and she felt that her age was a factor in her termination. Our office wrote a simple letter inviting the company to settle with our client before we hit them with a lawsuit. The company agreed and our client got paid within 90 days of her first visit to our office.	Result: $90,000.00
An employee of a nursing home was being told by his co-worker that people of his ethnicity are “lazy and unfaithful.” Our client complained to his manager about this conduct and nothing was done. Our client had to endure these racist comments for nearly 4 months.	Result: $290,000.00
A community worker for a non-profit corporation had a neurological disability that he did not disclose in his interview. When the company found out about this disability, they fired him, claiming that it interfered with the employee’s job functions and claimed that there was no way to accommodate him. The employee was only working at the company for about three months before he was fired.	Result: $105,000.00
A female temporary employee worked for a utility company for four months and earned $15 per hour. She was propositioned by her co-worker (who was a two-time felon). She complained of the harassment and was fired after she complained. The employer claimed that the employee was fired for "poor performance." We uncovered some buried computer records that showed that the employee's performance remained acceptable and consistent until her termination.	Result: $185,000.00
A young woman worked at a real estate office and was propositioned by her boss. She started a romantic relationship with her boss and when she wanted it to end, she was terminated. The company tried to allege that the employee was "laid off." After thoroughly investigating this claim, we proved that there was no such layoff.	Result: $205,428.09
A salesman was purposefully mis-classified by his employer as being "exempt" from earning overtime. The company paid the employee a salary of about $2000 per month and required a few hour of overtime per day (without paying overtime compensation). Although we had no records to corroborate our client's claim that he worked this overtime, we found a witness who backed up our client's version of the facts.	Result: $110,992.78
Our client worked as a health care facility manager for about one year and was a fine employee. A new regional manager took over the facility and made prejudicial remarks about our client. Our client was terminated a few weeks after this new manager came aboard. The new manager came up with a long laundry list of performance issues to justify the termination but we had substantial evidence to demonstrate that the performance problems were drummed up just to terminate our client.	Result: $220,000.00
A sales manager of a food distribution company needed some time off for an illness. When he asked his boss for the time off, he was terminated. We sued the company alleging violation of the California Famlily Rights Act (CFRA). The company claimed that the employee was terminated due to his refusal to perform his job duties. However, when we spoke to an ex-employee who worked with our client, he confirmed that our client was a dedicated and good worker.	Result: $142,000.00
A construction worker was employed by a contractor for about six months before he injured himself and required surgery. When the employee returned from his recovery, he needed accommodation to do his job. The firm refused to accommodate the employee since they claimed that the employee’s limitations made the employee a potential risk of future injury The employee was then laid off as the company allegedly “downsized.”	Result: $135,000.00
A notary public was employed by a firm who asked her to notarize a document without the signer being present. This was a violation of law, so our client refused to do it and she complained to her boss that she should not be asked to do illegal things. The company then sent her a letter “accepting” her resignation, which never happened. We contended that this was a wrongful termination in violation of public policy, but the company insisted that our client quit in a closed-door meeting with the president. Our client was employed by the firm for only about 4 months.	Result: $155,000.00
A male employee of a nation-wide investment firm was very uncomfortable with his female supervisor asking him out for social events (to which we could find no witnesses). Our client had a history of problems at his office with not meeting his goals but felt that he was being singled out by this supervisor in retaliation for not going out with her. Eventually, he was terminated for threatening a customer of the investment firm.	Result: $105,000.00
A public employee was fired after he complained about racial discrimination by his supervisor. Although our client was on probation and the public entity gave seven reasons for a performance-related termination, we showed that those reasons were all bogus.	Result: $168,000.00

These are all real cases with real people. Our client's names are omitted to protect their privacy. We believe in our clients and we diligently prosecute their case. How do we achieve such terrific results? Let us tell you a little more about us.

^* Of course, not every case is the same. We cannot guarantee the outcome on any particular case. Your case is individual and the results obtained in the past do not necessarily reflect what we can do for you.

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