Employment & Labor Relations

My preference is to represent people who have been the victims of unlawful harassment and/or discrimination.

• Age Discrimination
• Disability Discrimination
• Emotional Distress
• Employee Rights
• Employment Contracts
• Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)
• Race Discrimination
• Racial Harassment
• Sex Discrimination
• Sexual Harassment
• Termination
• Wage & Hour Laws
• Whistleblower
• Wrongful Termination

CA, Feb 1978
Bar Number: 79332

All courts in the State of California; United States District Court, Northern District of California; United States District Court, Central District of California.

Alameda County Bar Association.

I have over twenty-five years of continuing education in numerous subject areas.

Yes, I wrote an article dealing with insurance claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.

I have worked on numerous cases involving sexual harassment-primarily in the workplace, including a jury verdict/judgment for a woman sexually harassed on the assembly line. I also worked to obtain a jury verdict/judgment for a man who was the victim of "male on male" sex harassment. Additionally, I handled several cases involving unlawful harassment by debt collectors, a case involving a woman who was fired for refusing to work with a supervisor who was using a racial epithet against her and a case of harassment because of my client's sexual orientation. I work on a multitude of cases where my clients were treated unlawfully in the workplace.

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I began my firm in 1983 and worked as a sole practitioner until May 2003 when I joined the law firm of Hersh & Hersh in San Francisco. My focus has always been to try to right wrongs perpetrated by "bad guys" against "good guys."

I clerked for two years in the United States District Court for the Honorable William J. Nealon, Chief Justice, Middle District of Pennsylvania. I worked for a law firm in San Francisco from 1980 to 1983 and I've have taught first year torts and insurance law and litigation at Golden Gate University Law School. I have also served as a Judge Pro Tem in small claims court.

I am starting practice again as a sole practitioner in Berkeley while remaining as "of Counsel" to Hersh & Hersh in San Francisco.

For information on Hersh & Hersh see www.hershlaw.com.

Lisa Rouse

(510) 848-3500

Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

I will give my cell phone number to a client.

No

Spanish available.

I have no fixed price for services or fees. Work is done on a contingency fee basis, either a contingent percentage or contingent hourly rate and the client owes no fees unless there is a recovery. Furthermore, I normally seek to have the defendant pay my client's attorney fees and costs.

$500 to $600 per hour.

There is no fee owed unless I accept the case and there is a recovery. There is no initial consultation fee.

Since the work is done on a contingent basis, there is no retainer.