About my firm
Unless you’re looking for a transactional attorney to draft or review contracts or other documents, the fact that you need an attorney definitionally means that something bad happened to you. So, first of all, I am sorry you need to find an attorney. In general, people do not want to have to deal with lawyers, until you realize, wait a minute, I need a good one. If this is you, I am here to help.
If you were injured in a car accident, there is a small army of plaintiff’s attorneys to choose from, any of whom will be able to help you, and you will have no problem finding counsel. Employment law, however, is a different story. While there are skilled attorneys out there who deal with this type of litigation specifically, it can be difficult to find one with experience, depth of knowledge, and who will treat you with individualized attention. With my firm you will receive elite quality combined with a high degree of attentiveness derived from the fact that I choose to work only on a handful of cases at any given time. I care about my clients like family. While I am not a therapist, it is my job to listen to your problems and figure out if I can help, or if I know someone who can. And with nearly a decade of experience and roots planted deeply in the Sacramento area, I probably do know someone who can address whatever the issue is.
Lastly, I do all of my casework myself. I do all the writing, responding to discovery, I take all the depositions, I will personally prepare you for your depositions, I will read every piece of paper produced by the defense—tens of thousands of pages of documents. No AI can ever replace me and the critical analysis required to build a winning case. I even make my own coffee—I like the best artisanal roasts—and like my coffee, I put case quality above quantity. Litigation is a long winding journey and, if we agree to do this together, I’m in your corner until we win.
About my experience
I moved to Sacramento in the summer of 2016 and began my career in California at a prominent midsized plaintiff’s law firm dealing primarily with employment law, and some personal injury clients. I became licensed to practice law in California in 2017, and have represented hundreds of individual plaintiffs through all stages of litigation. I’ve represented physicians, nurses, CEOs, mechanics, road maintenance workers, state employees, county employees, a biochemist, a nuclear medicine technician, hospital administrators, a car dealership salesperson, doctors’ group administrators, public prosecutors, and others.
At a prior firm, I generated approximately $20 million in gross aggregate client recoveries over seven years, including five separate seven-figure settlements, with my personal record standing at $3 million in one settlement for a single client. However, most cases are unlikely to recover multi-millions , and an optimal result in every case always depends on the specifics facts of each case. Sometimes a settlement of relative lower value may be preferable to years of expensive litigation.
I have substantial trial experience, including jury trials, bench trials, and arbitration hearings. In addition to settlements, I won, or substantially contributed to winning, a $1 million total award in arbitration for breach of contract in Gordon vs. Digital Power Corp. (2023, Alameda), a $2.15 million bench trial award for breach of contract in Suckle vs. Perdue Farms LLC, (2022, Sacramento) and a $400,000 defamation jury trial verdict in Bailey vs. Sutter Valley Hospitals (2022, Stanislaus).
By 2025, I decided it was time to set out on my own and “hang my shingle.” My law firm is dedicated to high quality representation of a small number of clients. I will litigate every case with 100% effort in an attempt to obtain an optimal result as relatively quickly as possible. To accomplish this I limit the number of cases I am willing to take on at any given time. I would rather have ten excellent cases rather than twenty of varying quality. But I am not just a lawyer for doctors or other high earners. I consider many factors in deciding whether to take a case including, but not limited to, the specific fact pattern of what the client experienced and the overall horribleness of the employer’s misconduct, difficulty of proving the employer’s misconduct, anticipated probability of success, extent to which the plaintiff was harmed, and whether the client and I are subjectively a good match for each other. None of these factors are equal in value: every case is different, and I rely on an experience forged gut intuition to make a good call from the start. In short, I would rather take a case with solid facts but modest value than a tenuous case with potentially larger value if it lands.
My litigation philosophy is straightforward, to the point, and no-nonsense. Throughout the entire litigation journey— from filing the complaint until I submit a trial brief—I will communicate to the defense why we are going to win, what our best evidence is, why their defenses are lacking, and hold no surprises for trial. If the defendant dares us to go to trial, I do not have aces up my sleeve. The story I present will be tight, easily digestible, and highly persuasive. And then, truth will prevail.
In litigation, truth really is stranger than fiction. Many employers lack a coherent response to the most basic question of, “Why did you fire my client?”—I’ve heard some whoppers in response. My job is to expose truth and call people out on their lies, preferably in a climatic showdown at trial. If we reach trial (most cases will settle beforehand), the final presentation will represent the tip of an iceberg of years—thousands of hours—of work.