Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Individual & Family Litigation
SERIOUS PERSONAL INJURY
When negligence or wrongful conduct causes serious harm, WLF investigates the incident, identifies every responsible party, preserves critical evidence, and pursues compensation for the resulting physical, emotional, and financial losses.
WRONGFUL DEATH
WLF represents families seeking accountability after a preventable death caused by negligence, dangerous conditions, professional misconduct, defective products, workplace incidents, or wrongful government action.
ELDER ABUSE & NEGLECT
WLF protects elders, dependent adults, and their families when nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, caregivers, fiduciaries, or others cause harm through abuse, neglect, exploitation, inadequate supervision, or denial of necessary care.
CIVIL RIGHTS & POLICE MISCONDUCT
WLF pursues accountability for excessive force, police shootings, unlawful searches or arrests, discriminatory policing, First Amendment retaliation, jail misconduct, custodial deaths, and other constitutional violations committed under government authority.
TRUST & ESTATE LITIGATION
WLF represents beneficiaries, heirs, trustees, executors, administrators, and other interested parties in disputes involving trusts, wills, fiduciary misconduct, undue influence, inheritance rights, estate administration, and misappropriated property.
Employment Litigation
EMPLOYMENT CIVIL RIGHTS
WLF protects employees facing discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination, denied accommodations, unequal pay, family- or medical-leave violations, whistleblower retaliation, and other unlawful workplace conduct.
WAGE & HOUR VIOLATIONS
WLF represents employees whose employers failed to pay wages, overtime, commissions, or reimbursable expenses; denied lawful meal or rest periods; misclassified workers; or violated California payroll and compensation requirements.
PAGA CLAIMS
WLF represents eligible California employees pursuing civil penalties for Labor Code violations affecting them and other workers. We evaluate employer policies, payroll practices, statutory notice requirements, and representative-action procedures.
Other Litigation
PRODUCTS LIABILITY & MASS TORTS
WLF holds manufacturers, distributors, and other corporations accountable for dangerous drugs, defective medical devices, unsafe vehicles, toxic substances, consumer-product defects, and other products that cause serious or widespread harm.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LITIGATION
WLF represents businesses, entrepreneurs, professionals, and creators in disputes involving intellectual-property ownership, trade secrets, confidential information, licensing rights, software, technology, unfair competition, and unauthorized use.
MUNICIPAL LAW & LITIGATION
WLF represents individuals, businesses, public employees, contractors, property owners, and community organizations in disputes involving public entities, government contracts, public records, open meetings, land use, licensing, taxation, employment, and municipal authority.