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I am an employment discrimination attorney or lawyer in Tallahassee, Florida, representing employees only.

• $5 Million Legal Malpractice Verdict Hits Super-Volume Law Firm

  By Jim Garrity on December 12, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Photo credit: Shutterstock In October 2018 – just 45 days ago – a jury returned a $5 million malpractice verdict against a law firm who runs ads for seemingly every kind of case and tragedy.  The firm, Morgan and Morgan,… Read More ›

• Employer to Pay Our Client $250,000 in Race Discrimination Lawsuit

  By Jim Garrity on November 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

    TALLAHASSEE FL – NOV. 4, 2018.  The Florida Department of Health, as part of a federal court lawsuit, must pay our client $250,000 to resolve her race discrimination and retaliation claims. The client, a black female who held the… Read More ›

• 5 Fast Facts About Employers Who Interfere With Your FMLA Rights

  By Jim Garrity on October 30, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The FMLA requires that your employer return you to the same or a virtually identical position upon your return from medical leave. If your job upon your return is worse in noticeable ways, your employer has likely interfered with your… Read More ›

• “Employment At Will” Doesn’t Mean “No Right to Fight Back”

  By Jim Garrity on September 29, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The laws that protect you as a job seeker or employer apply whether you work in an “at will” state or not.     Many employers tell applicants or employees that they can’t fight back against wrongful treatment because “It’s an… Read More ›

• Is Your Boss Using Fake Devices (Like This “USB Drive”) To Record You?

  By Jim Garrity on September 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  For years I’ve provided legal advice to employees about whether and when they can record workplace conversations with their bosses.   Increasingly, though, I am seeing situations where it is the supervisors doing the recording.   And if your boss is recording you, you… Read More ›

• Boss Speed Dials Ex-Worker’s Cell During Unemployment Hearing To Disrupt Testimony

  By Jim Garrity on August 24, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  I’ll give that boss credit.  It was clever, to a point. In one of my firm’s recent, and successful, trials, the evidence showed that our client’s former boss – after finishing her part of a telephone hearing on our client’s… Read More ›

• How Do Employers Cheat You On Payday? Let Us Count The Ways.

  By Jim Garrity on August 18, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  What’s the most common violation of employee rights we see on a day-to-day basis?  Without question, it’s the failure of employers to properly pay employees.  This is true whether the employer is a mom-and-pop corner store or one of the… Read More ›