San Jose, CA
Employment and labor Lawyer at San Jose, CA
Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Sexual Harassment, Personal Injury
OUTCOME: $16,000,000 settlement setting records in Santa Clara County, State of CA and top 5 nationally
Pervasive sexually harassing environment against a plaintiff, no witnesses, with substantial emotional injury, heavy use of medical and economic experts testimony.
OUTCOME: $3,000,000 in Merced County, record result, overcoming recreational activities and natural conditions immunities for the State of California.
Swimmer drowns, tangled in submerged lake grasses.
OUTCOME: Firing reversed; ordered to rehear for lesser discipline.
Successful appeal of County employee's firing, following repeated reversals of civil service commission decisions upholding the firing. County appealed unsuccessfully to Sixth District Court of Appeal. ... Claimant was awarded all lost earnings, benefits and attorney's fees following trial.
OUTCOME: Firing overturned and federal case settled in confidential compromise.
Veteran school custodian was fired after allegedly having repeatedly left work early due to arthritic pain during the winter. Case was tried before union arbitrator, after union declined representation ... as "unwinnable", with companion suit filed in Federal District Court.
OUTCOME: Pending deliberations, and indicating full reinstatement to job with back pay, case was settled.
Long-term nurse was wrongfully terminated with administration and staff conspiring to remove minority nurse from hospital setting. Union declined representation. Case was successfully tried before Coun ... ty Personnel Board and settled with decision pending.
OUTCOME: Case settled for approximately $225,000 without filing of suit.
Catastrophic wrist fracture in administrative professional who fell off ladder while performing home improvements on her residence, with ladder borrowed from her boyfriend.
OUTCOME: Case successfully settled with confidential amount. Following defense appellate motions, case settled with record confidential amount in Sexual Harassment
Sexual harassment victim was videotaped by a microcam under her desk. The company sought to discover her private diary about the harassment. The recordings were never recovered and evidence was circums ... tantial. The diaries were successfully defended as attorney-client communication despite the fact that the client had not yet retained the attorney. Case was resolved through confidential settlement following extensive discovery, including company department videotaped inspection and discovery of witness to retaliation conspiracy.
OUTCOME: Court approved settlement valued in the mid-seven figures, with establishment of a special needs trust for lifetime care.
Catastrophic brain injury to infant who drowned in neighbor's fully fenced pool, where toddler was unsupervised and wandered into open garage door, accessing neighbor's backyard pool.
OUTCOME: Case was defended and affirmed on appeal.
Mr. Cohn established protections for parental hosts at whose homes alcohol was made accessible to minors, where the minors were not obviously intoxicated, but where those minors thereafter became invol ... ved in an automobile accident.
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