Practice Areas Definitions

Civil Rights Law

• Police Misconduct
• Excessive Force
• False Arrest & Imprisonment

Employment Law

• Wage & Hour Class Action
• Wrongful Termination
• Hostile Work Environment
• Workplace Discrimination
• Disability Discrimination
• Age Discrimination
• Gender Discrimination
• Pregnancy Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Family & Medical Leave Act
• Whistleblower & Qui Tam
• Retaliation
• Employment Law Definitions
• Racial & Ethnic Discrimination
  • Racial Harassment

Personal Injury

• Wrongful Death
• Product Liability
• Premises Liability
• Defamation

• Petzold v. Metrocities Class Action >>
• Police Shooting of Julian Stanley Collender Challenged in Federal Court >>

• Partner Genie Harrison moves to SDSHHH's South Pasadena office, expanding its presence in north-east Los Angeles.

• V. James DeSimone Honored as Top Twenty Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in the State of California by Daily Journal >>
• Genie Harrison Honored as Top Twenty Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in the State of California >>
• Class Action Certified for Wheelchair Using Angels Fans Against Angels Baseball and City of Anaheim for Disability Access Discrimination >>
• Genie Harrison has been listed as one the 2011 Super Lawyers list for Plaintiff's Employment Litigation and has been named one of the Top 50 Women Litigators in Southern California.
• Jim DeSimone Achieves Precedent Setting Published Decision in California Discrimination Case

• Victim of Brutality Files Federal Civil Rights Action
• Paul Hoffman to argue in United States Supreme Court to Hold Corporations Accountable for Human Rights Abuses in Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum
• Paul Hoffman and Victoria Don Seek Justice for Kidnap and Torture Victims
• Police Shooting of Julian Stanley Collender Challenged in Federal Court
• V. James DeSimone Honored as Top Twenty Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in the State of California by Daily Journal
• Genie Harrison Honored as Top Twenty Plaintiff Employment Lawyers in the State of California
• Class Action Certified for Wheelchair Using Angels Fans Against Angels Baseball and City of Anaheim for Disability Access Discrimination
• SDSHHH and the Harvard Human Rights Clinic Submit Evidence of Torture to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture

Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison LLP
723 Ocean Front Walk, Suite 100
Venice, CA 90291
Phone: 310-396-0731
Fax: 310-399-7040
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S. Pasadena Office
715 Fremont Avenue, Suite A
S. Pasadena, CA 91030
Phone: 626-441-4129
Fax: 626-283-5770
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