Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, will speak later today at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles’ (CAALA’s) Judges Evaluation Program at the CAALA Offices Conference Center in Downtown Los Angeles. As part of the program where experienced trial attorneys share their opinions […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, has issued a statement aimed at all employees in light of recent news coverage surrounding Los Angeles Dodgers Owners Frank and Jamie McCourt and their divorce. News of the McCourts’ separation broke last month as the Dodgers were […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, has issued a statement aimed at all employees in light of a recent news story regarding a worker killed by a cardboard crushing machine in the Los Angeles area. The worker, 64-year-old Efren Monterroso, was inside the compactor […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, has issued a statement aimed at all employees in light of current reports of Ralph Lauren’s firing of Filippa Hamilton, allegedly because she “was too fat.” Ralph Lauren’s clothing company terminated Hamilton’s contract recently because she “weighed too […]

Kimmel and Letterman Examples Make Issue a Topic of National Discussion Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, has issued a statement aimed at all California employees in light of news coverage of Jimmy Kimmel’s current romantic relationship with an employee of his show. Shegerian […]

For all the extraordinary elements of the David Letterman scandal, so far his situation lands within a wide gray zone for workplace behavior. Leave aside the fact that he’s a television personality and the alleged victim of a bizarre extortion attempt, and what’s left is a kind of complicated mess that can arise in businesses […]

Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, had two of its cases featured last week as “Champion Verdicts” of the year at the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) 22nd annual Employment Law Conference in Oakland, California. The presentation, to an audience of California’s leading labor and employment attorneys and advocates, […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, has issued a statement aimed at all employees in light of current news coverage of David Letterman and his on-air admission of affairs with employees over the years. Shegerian warns that office trysts, in California, at least, can […]

Wendy Sun, a former employee at Toyota Motor Sales, Inc., (the American sales and marketing arm of Toyota Motor Corporation) who had been employed as a controller by the company for seven years and was terminated in 2006, has won a wrongful termination lawsuit and will be awarded more than $2.81 million by a jury […]

Carney R. Shegerian, founder of Shegerian & Associates, a Santa Monica-based law firm specializing in employee rights, spoke last week at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles’ (CAALA’s) 27th annual convention at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas. Shegerian’s presentation, to an audience of Los Angeles’ leading consumer and employee attorneys in Southern California, […]

On Oct. 20, 2006, plaintiff Elise Modrovich, 38, a pilates instructor, was terminated from her job with The Sports Club Company Inc. in Beverly Hills. She had worked for the company for about 11 months. Modrovich sued Sports Club, alleging wrongful termination, retaliation, violation of public policy and intentional infliction of emotion distress. Plaintiff’s counsel […]