Attorneys & Counselors at Law
Labor attorneys and business leaders are urging Portland employers to consult with their lawyers before deciding how much to pay their employees next month, saying that the city’s decision not to enforce a hazard pay requirement until 2022 could expose them to lawsuits. .. Shelby Leighton, an attorney with Johnson Webbert & Young who specializes…
Workers at Whole Foods Market are striking back against a lawsuit filed by the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce to overturn a voter-approved minimum wage-ordinance that would grant hazard pay to essential workers in the city during the pandemic. On Thursday, attorneys representing Caleb Horton and Mario Roberge-Reyes, two workers at Whole Foods in Portland, filed a motion to…
Attorneys Carol Garvan, David Webbert, Max Brooks, and Valerie Wicks represented five longtime workers in a class-action lawsuit against FMC Corp. FMC sold the plant on the Rockland waterfront in November 2017 to DowDuPont. The property is currently listed under Dupont Nutrition U.S.A., Inc. Workers claim they did not receive their accrued vacation time for…
Phillip E. Johnson, David G. Webbert, Jeffrey N. Young, and Carol J. Garvan have been selected to the 2020 Maine Super Lawyers (®) list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor. Additionally, Valerie Z. Wicks has…
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a sweeping decision finding that IBM’s highest leaders engaged in systematic age discrimination when terminating thousands of older workers and gave false excuses to cover up what they were doing. … The agency’s decision “will put great pressure on IBM to compensate workers it wrongly ousted in…
We are pleased to announce that five of the firm’s lawyers were selected for the 2021 edition of The Best Lawyers in America©, one of the legal profession’s longest-running and respected peer-review publications. Best Lawyers® is a leading guide to legal excellence. Lawyers are selected for The Best Lawyers in America through a peer review process in which…
Working hard for Equal Justice, including the equal worth and dignity of all humans, is the heart and soul of our Firm. We have all seen with our own eyes how unequal justice is in our country for black Americans and other people of color. All of us have a moral and human obligation to…
A police officer slammed a 5-foot-tall mother to the ground in front of her children, causing her to lose consciousness. A court threw out her case against the officer before it could go to a jury. An officer drove his SUV into the path of a fleeing motorcycle, killing the driver. The court tossed the case. Police officers fired at a family’s…
The president of several Portland radio stations is no longer working for the company, the latest of several high-profile changes and firings at the stations over the last few months. The “departure” of Bob Adams as president and general manager of the Portland Radio Group was prompted by the stations’ need for a “more defined…
She Was Fired Due to Her Doctor’s Order That She Keep Working at Home Temporarily To Avoid COVID-19 and Fatal Side Effects. Read “Longtime Portland radio host files official complaint after she was let go” here Read “Longtime Portland radio personality plans to file complaint over her dismissal” here Read “Portland radio personality Randi Kirshbaum…