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A female employee at a correctional facility sued for sexual harassment. Plaintiff claimed her work environment was sexually hostile towards females, with her male co-workers constantly making sexual jokes. On one occasion, two armed male co-workers took Plaintiff into a room and pretended that they were going to sexually assault her as a “practical joke”, unzipping their pants, and holding her arms down. Plaintiff settled for $1.2 million in damages.

Plaintiff, a professional man working as in-house counsel at a company, sued after being fired for complaining internally about SOX violations. Plaintiff reported to the company the illegality of such violations, namely that the company was misrepresenting the value of their stock to the public, and that the company had huge debts that they were not revealing to anyone. Plaintiff also reported that a planned layoff illegally targeted older employee. Plaintiff was awarded $1.355 million to compensate for being retaliated against as a whistleblower.

The client, a man in his early 50s, working on Wall Street. His employer started trying to squeeze him out, saying that they were “downsizing”, when in reality they were trying to replace him with a younger worker whose junior wage would cost them less. Plaintiff launched an age discrimination lawsuit against his employer. Defendant was paid $1.5 million in damages.

Plaintiff, a woman who worked from home, sued the CEO of her employer for sexual harassment. The CEO had come to Arkansas to inspect his factory there and requested that Plaintiff pick him up from the airport and take him to his hotel, where Defendant then raped Plaintiff. Defendant also set up a Skype account for Plaintiff, and would Skype call her only to reveal that he was masturbating. Plaintiff’s case settled for $1.425 million in damages for the ongoing sexual harassment.

Four men who worked for a large bank became the victims of a workplace bullying campaign against them. The men, who were all of East Asian descent, became the targets of colleagues after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, since one of the men was of the Muslim faith. The co-workers started bullying the plaintiffs, calling them racist names such as “terrorists”. The bank agreed to pay $1.8 million in damages.

A restaurant that employed young women, whose revealing outfits and sex appeal were played up for the benefit of its patrons, was sued by four of its employees for sexual harassment. The four plaintiffs, all young women, were each sexually assaulted under different circumstances by the restaurant’s general manager. One girl was forced to perform fellatio after being lured downstairs under work pretenses, one was drugged and raped after a work event, and another was violently sexually assaulted at work. Our lawyers obtained a $2.3 million settlement for the plaintiffs.