LOS ANGELES, Sept. 28, 2017 — California Superior Court Judge Victor Chavez ruled this week to deny a motion requesting a new trial in the largest racial discrimination verdict in California history. The ruling upholds a June 2017 verdict obtained by attorney Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a California-based litigation law firm specializing in employee rights.  The verdict, awarded to client Rickey Moland, was awarded by a Los […]

 Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a litigation law firm specializing in employee rights, has been selected by the Daily Journal as one the Top 100 Lawyers in the state of California, across all categories For its list, the Daily Journal, the nation’s leading daily legal newspaper, takes nominations from all over the state of California […]

A former Baldwin Park police chief who was fired after less than two months on the job claims in a lawsuit filed Monday that he was racially discriminated against and his termination was retaliation for refusing a councilman’s requests to engage in illegal and political activity. In the complaint filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court, David Salcedo […]

Carney Shegerian was recently featured on the cover of “Attorney at Law” magazine as the “Attorney of the Month”. There is a common perception among laymen that we are a society gone sue crazy. Litigation, they believe, has become the go-to response to even the most minor slight, real or imagined. Perhaps the preponderance of […]

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 11, 2017  — Anthony Nguyen, attorney and partner at Los Angeles-based employment discrimination firm Shegerian & Associates will be speaking at the National Conference of Vietnamese American Attorneys (NCVAA) 11 [th] Annual Conference in Orange County, California. The conference will take place on September 15 [th] and 16 [th] at the Chapman University Dale […]

Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a leading litigation law firm specializing in employee rights, has announced that it has opened a new office in San Francisco to best serve clients in Northern California. The new San Francisco office becomes the third location for the firm, with existing locations in Los Angeles and San Diego. Shegerian & […]

A Pasadena psychiatrist recently convicted of assault and making criminal threats against his children’s nanny and a former employee said he has continued seeing patients at his practice. Dirk de Brito, 54, of La Cañada Flintridge, who specializes in adult ADHD, bipolar disorder and depression, faces two civil lawsuits. He maintains he never physically harmed […]

Will Reed, an attorney at Shegerian and Associates, Inc. — the law firm representing Salcedo — said there is evidence to contradict Pacheco’s denial. “I can definitely confirm that there were electronic communications between (Pacheco and Salcedo),” wherein Pacheco went so far as to send Salcedo a copy of the citation, Reed said. Read the entire article on NBC […]

Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a litigation law firm specializing in employee rights, has been selected by the Daily Journal as one the “Top Labor and Employment Attorneys” in the state of California. For its list, the Daily Journal, the nation’s leading daily legal newspaper, takes nominations from all over California and selects the leading […]

LOS ANGELES — Anthony Nguyen, attorney and partner at Los Angeles-based employment discrimination firm Shegerian & Associatesrecently issued a statement regarding the racial discrimination allegations made against the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks. Samuel R. Hayes, a former security operations manager for the team, claims that he was fired because of his race. He also alleges that the […]

A trial date has been set for the unique wrongful termination case brought against Coast Surgery Center by its former employee, Sheila Gunst. Gunst, who is represented by Carney Shegerian of Shegerian & Associates, Inc., a Santa Monica-based litigation law firm specializing in employee rights, claims she was wrongfully terminated while on disability leave caring for […]

Tram Ho, who appears on a Vietnamese-language jewelry auction program on KVLA.TV (channel 56.5), alleges that Father Joseph C. Nguyen, the parochial vicar at Saint Anne Catholic Church in Santa Ana, “made repeated and unwanted sexual advances, smothered her with hugs and kisses, and once tried to force himself on her … groping her breasts and genitals against her will,” […]