Overview Class Actions Failure to Pay Wages, Overtime, Commissions Employment Discrimination Sexual Harassment & Abuse Employee Benefits / ERISA Pregnancy Discrimination & Harassment Consumer Protection & Fraud Disability Rights (ADA) Deaf Rights Access to Education Whistleblower Claims Dangerous Products, Medical Devices, Drugs Securities Fraud

Our Practice Areas

Champions of Plaintiff Rights and Protection

 

Our focus on impact litigation is motivated by two overarching and passionate goals:  To remedy systemic discrimination in employment, government services and education and to protect consumers against fraud, hazardous products, defective medical devices and dangerous drugs.  These goals have taken us into federal and state courts, where we have pursued class action suits both for and against Fortune 500 companies, government entities and major universities. 

 

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky attorneys represent plaintiffs whose cases have reached all levels of the justice system, including federal and state trial courts, the California Court of Appeals, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and the United States Supreme Court. In all instances, we vigorously pursue the rights of consumers, persons with disabilities, ethnic and religious minorities, as well as those who have been discriminated against on account of age, gender or sexual orientation.
 

Our practice emphasizes litigation in the areas of:

 

• Class Actions
• Failure to Pay Wages, Overtime, Commissions
• Employment Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment & Abuse
• Employee Benefits / ERISA
• Pregnancy Discrimination & Harassment
• Consumer Protection & Fraud
• Disability Rights (ADA)
• Deaf Rights
• Access to Education
• Whistleblower Claims
• Dangerous Products, Medical Devices, Drugs
• Securities Fraud

 

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Class Actions

A class action lawsuit allows one person or a small group of people to be represented by a law firm and sue on behalf of hundreds, thousands or hundreds of thousands of different people with similar complaints. Because there is strength in numbers, a class action lawsuit is a powerful tool that individuals can use to enforce the law against large corporate firms and government entities.

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Failure to Pay Wages, Overtime, Commissions

Because pursuing a wage and hour lawsuit for a single worker rarely makes economic sense – i.e. the potential recovery does not justify the costs and risks of litigation – large employers have traditionally flouted California’s wage and hour labor laws with impunity. However, for the past decade, we have been increasingly successful in prosecuting wage and hour claims as class action lawsuits.
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Employment Discrimination

Both state and federal law make it illegal for employers to discriminate in various aspects of employment, including hiring, promotion, job assignment, wrongful termination, compensation, and different forms of harassment. The employment discrimination lawyers of Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky are dedicated to ensuring equal rights for all.
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Sexual Harassment & Abuse

Sexual harassment is illegal. No matter what form it takes, sexual harassment can not only be traumatic to the victim but also create significant, wider-spread problems in the workplace. Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP lawyers handle cases on behalf of victims of sexual harassment and abuse, and have been doing so for the last 15 years.
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Employee Benefits / ERISA

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP protectss patients and doctors from misconduct of insurers and managed-care providers.  We also represent employees whose 401(k) investments have suffered severe losses due to corporate misrepresentations or other wrongdoing.

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Pregnancy Discrimination & Harassment

California law provides for strong protection against discrimination against pregnant women and allows leave for pregnancy- related disabilities, and time to bond with a new child or care for a sick child. However, despite the California legislature's clear attempts to protect pregnant workers from discrimination, this problem is still prevalent in the California workplace. Through our pregnancy discrimination practice, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky vigorously defends the rights and protections to which female employees are entitled, serving as their counsel and advocates so they may work free from discrimination.

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Consumer Protection & Fraud

As a champion of consumer rights, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky holds companies that attempt to defraud the public accountable for doing so. Federal and state laws require that companies truthfully advertise their products and fully disclose any fees charged for their services. We represent consumers in major class actions against companies that commit fraud and false advertising.

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Disability Rights (ADA)

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky handles statewide and national class action lawsuits on behalf of persons with disabilities, who were denied access to employment, business, education, government facilities and services due to physical barriers that violate the ADA. We also have successfully challenged policies and procedures that impose unlawful limitations upon the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities.

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Deaf Rights

In protecting the rights of deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals across the nation, our attorneys have handled major cases against state universities and Fortune 500 companies.

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Access to Education

At Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky, we believe that all people have a right to an education free from barriers and should be graded and tested based on their knowledge. In fact, the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) specifically prohibits discrimination against disabled persons by ensuring equal opportunity in all areas, including places of education.
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Whistleblower Claims

Federal and state laws protect whistle blowers from employer retaliation. The law provides that whistle blowers may not be fired, demoted, harassed or intimidated as a result of their whistle blowing activities.

 

Federal and state laws also provide that people who "blow the whistle" on companies that have defrauded the government are entitled to a percentage of all monies recovered in the legal action.

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Dangerous Products, Medical Devices, Drugs

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky represents large groups of individuals who have been injured by defective products and pharmaceuticals. Despite recent multi-million-dollar jury verdicts, manufacturers continue to produce, market and distribute dangerous products to the unknowing public.
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Securities Fraud

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Brayton Konecky LLP handles class action cases on behalf of investors who are victims of securities fraud.
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