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Founded 45 years ago, Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho is a plaintiffs’ public interest class action firm located in Oakland, California. The firm represents individuals in class actions seeking to vindicate civil, employment, voting, and consumer rights. The firm made its name by prevailing in some of the biggest employment discrimination cases ever litigated, and continues to be recognized as one of the premier plaintiffs’ employment discrimination class action law firms in the country.
The firm has an active disability rights practice, litigating and negotiating on behalf of classes of persons with vision, hearing, and mobility disabilities. The firm recently obtained a settlement that requires the City of Los Angeles to spend approximately $1.4 billion, and the City of Long Beach to spend approximately $200 million, to make their pedestrian rights of way accessible to persons with mobility disabilities. The firm is a leader in negotiating website accessibility for people with visual impairments, reaching settlements with entities as diverse as Major League Baseball, the American Cancer Society, Bank of America, and CVS.
The firm is a national leader in litigating wage-and-hour class and collective actions, and has won hundreds of millions of dollars in back-pay for employees. Recently the firm has been on the forefront of litigation concerning the employment status of workers in the developing “on-demand” economy.
Partners Andrew Lee and Bill Jhaveri-Weeks have both been practicing for about 10 years. In addition to describing the firm’s work, they will talk briefly about the paths they followed after law school. Goldstein, Borgen, Dardarian & Ho is accepting applications for summer associate positions for the summer of 2018.