Gender Discrimination

Can My Employer Fire Me Without Giving A Reason?

What Termination Letters Can And Cannot Prove  Getting fired is hard. Maybe the boss sits you down. Maybe HR hands you a letter. Maybe your badge stops working before anyone has the decency to look you in the eye. However it happens, the first question that crosses...

Yes, You Can Be Fired For Refusing To Talk To And Train Coworkers

Even If You Are Pregnant And Scheduled For FMLA Leave Pregnancy protects employees from pregnancy discrimination. The Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) protects eligible employees who need maternity leave. Neither one gives an employee a golden ticket to make...

Yes, You Can Be Fired For Searching Coworkers’ Bags

Even If You Were Looking For Moonshine  Let’s start with a hard truth: not every employee who gets fired has a wrongful termination or employment discrimination case. Sometimes the firing has nothing to do with race, gender, age, or disability discrimination....

Do I Have Enough Evidence For Wrongful Termination?

Evidence Matters In Employment Claims - How To Get It A good employee walks into work, does the job, announces a pregnancy—and suddenly things feel off. The employer controls the tools. The pay drops. The opportunity disappears. That feels like employment...

Using AI Instead Of A Lawyer Is How You Lose Fast

Employment Cases Are Complex And Need Real Experienced Lawyers To Handle  When Itzhak Perlman picks up a violin, it’s effortless—clean, precise, and exactly what it’s supposed to be. If I, as an employment attorney, picked up that same violin and pull the bow across...

Job Offer Pulled After Employer Learned My Race?

Failure To Hire And Race Discrimination Explained You land the job. The employer says yes. You’re already picturing your first day, your paycheck, maybe even telling your family you finally caught a break. Then—just like that—the offer disappears. No explanation...

How Long Do I Have To Sue For Workplace Discrimination? What Missing The EEOC Deadline Means For Your Case

You think your employer violated employment discrimination. You think you were wrongfully fired. You feel discrimination—race/color discrimination, gender discrimination, retaliation, maybe even disability discrimination—and you’re ready to fight back. But here’s the...

Spitz Lawyers Win $2 Million Jury Verdict for Wrongfully Terminated Employee; Employment Lawyers Who Take Wrongful Termination Cases to Trial … and Win

On April 7, 2026, attorneys Brian Spitz and Patricia Brandt waited in the courthouse hallways with their client, Dr. Kevin Strickland, as the jury deliberated. Spitz and Brandt had just concluded a trial in which they presented compelling evidence that the Defendants...

Can My Boss Beat Retaliation Claims With Poor Performance? When Employers Use Performance To Defeat Discrimination Cases

If you’re an employee dealing with employment discrimination or retaliation; or maybe you were wrongfully fired today, you’re probably asking this question: can my employer really get away with this? In employment law, employers often try to repackage race...