Berkeley, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at Berkeley, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Business
OUTCOME: Victory - settlement
A local family man and small businessman was libeled in a book written by a comedian. Without a lawsuit, Mr. Sperber obtained a fair monetary settlement, a correction in any future publications, and ... a written letter of apology.
OUTCOME: Trial Victory Against Financial Services Firm Represented by Morrison & Foerster
This was a case involving unpaid overtime and missed meal and rest breaks in a financial services company. After winning at trial, we successfully represented two other employees with similar claims a ... gainst the same company. Mr. Sperber tried this case with his co-counsel, Mark Peters of Duckworth, Peters, Lebowitz & Olivier, LLP.
OUTCOME: Settlement after summary adjudication
This was a complicated case in which General Motors tried at several junctures to escape liability (the case also coincided with the bankruptcy and reorganization of GM). In the end, however, the cour ... t agreed with us that the car was defective "as a matter of law". As a result, a trial was not necessary and the case promptly settled.
OUTCOME: Settlement After Partial Summary Judgment
In this business litigation case, I represented a gas station owner in his breach of contract and fraud case against an oil company. I brought a successful motion for partial summary judgment to r ... esolve critical legal issues. Soon afterwards, the case settled for approximately $1 million.
OUTCOME: Summary Judgment in favor of my defendant clients.
An individual sued a religious temple and several members of its management, alleging various violations of the Corporations Code, civil rights violations, fraud, and other claims. In the first st ... age of the case in federal court, I got the case dismissed with prejudice. In the second stage of the case, I obtained summary judgment for my clients. I also obtained thousands of dollars in sanctions against the plaintiff, for filing frivilous motions. I then succeeded in having the court declare the plaintiff a "vexatious litigant" (which prevents him from filing in any CA court without permission of the presiding judge).
OUTCOME: Settlement Before Trial
My clients were African American employees of a property management company. Based on a series of discriminatory actions by the company and its employees, we sued in state court on numerous grounds, i ... ncluding race discrimination, disability discrimination, retaliation, and slander. The case settled shortly before trial for $275,000.
OUTCOME: Settlement for Unpaid Commissions
This case was brought by a salesman against his former employer, a telecommunications company, for unpaid wages. The company had a commission plan in place, but when our client made a very large sale, ... the company attempted to retroactively reduce the amount of his commission. After litigating for a short time, the case settled for $125,000—the entire amount owed.
OUTCOME: Settlement
In this wrongful termination case, the company fired my client (a blue collar manufacturing employee) while he was on medical leave for a hand injury. We sued on various grounds, including disability ... discrimination and retaliation for exercising his rights to medical leave. The case settled for $300,000.
OUTCOME: Monetary Settlement with Correction and Apology
In this libel case, a conservative publisher writing a book critical of Jesse Jackson defamed our clients by linking them to criminal activity. While cross motions for partial summary judgment were pe ... nding, the parties settled the case for $600,000. The defendants also wrote a letter of apology and agreed to issue a correction of the inaccurate information.