Attorneys Valerie Wicks and Shelby Leighton represent Portland workers in the fight for hazard-pay

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…

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Johnson Webbert & Garvan Win $695,000 for Workers of Rockland Plant

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…

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JWG Statement of Action in Support of Black Lives Matter

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…

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ATTORNEY DAVID WEBBERT CALLS OUT SAGA COMMUNICATIONS FOR PATTERN OF AGE DISCRIMINATION TERMINATIONS AT PORTLAND RADIO GROUP INCLUDING ITS PRESIDENT

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…

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