About
Tim Hoffman is a pioneering California lawyer with a storied, 45-year criminal career, in the course of which he has helped recover more than $1 billion for his worthy customers. Mr. Hoffman has successfully attempted dozens of matters to verdict, specializing in complicated civil cases, and has litigated over two hundred arbitrations. He has practiced in Oakland, CA, in view that 1971, and turned into maximum lately selected for inclusion in 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers.
Since the mid-1990 s, Mr. Hoffman has been a pacesetter amongst plaintiffs employment attorneys, scoring large victories for training of hundreds of personnel at Pacific Bell (who recovered $36 million), Macy s, Starbucks, and lots of other Fortune 500 organizations. In extra time magnificence movements, Mr. Hoffman has represented misclassified assistant managers, stockbrokers, truck drivers, and reservation clerks, among many different categories of employees. Among personnel forced to work off-the-clock, Mr. Hoffman has represented classes of handymen, janitors, bike and driving force messengers, and others. Mr. Hoffman has represented victims of sexual harassment and numerous other types of discrimination.
Mr. Hoffman has additionally specialized in purchaser safety cases, which includes, for instance, magnificence movements towards credit card agencies, and a cutting-edge case in opposition to termite-safety vendors Orkin and Terminex, who misrepresent the character of their services and offer false guarantees to clients.
Other contemporary instances on which Mr. Hoffman is running encompass: Mevorah v. Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, regarding misclassified loan officers denied extra time; Chu v. Wells Fargo, regarding misclassified stockbrokers denied beyond regular time; and Contreras v. Bank of America, concerning misclassified private bankers denied beyond regular time.
Mr. Hoffman s first-class regarded instances, the Continental Can elegance moves, by myself recovered nearly 1/2 one billion bucks from the corporation after a four-month trial. The agency had been discriminating towards personnel primarily based upon their pension blessings, a exercise prohibited under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). In that case, the company became shutting down plants based totally upon how many employees in each location could soon vest their complete pensions, shedding wholesale any personnel whose advantages had been about to vest.
Among Mr. Hoffman s favorite profession moments have been: having lunch with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Alabama when Mr. Hoffman turned into a member of the Law Students Civil Rights Research Council; protecting famed 60 s radical Abbie Hoffman in a free speech case; previous contemporary President Barack Obama as a Chicago community organizer and attorney in Chicago Legal Aid; introducing Cesar Chavez at a feast for the National Hispanic University, wherein Mr. Hoffman served as General Counsel and a founding member of the Board of Trustees; successfully settling his very own whistleblower retaliation case, after he (as a then-Presidential appointee) said a federal authorities supervisor s improprieties; serving as President of his American Federation of Government Employees Union Local, and a member of the San Francisco Labor Council, and representing the Communication Workers of America Local for the last 38 years; volunteering on the Board of Visitors to College of Arts & Sciences at Howard University; and, playing craps with Thurgood Marshall in Puerto Rico.
Mr. Hoffman is a local of Chicago, IL, an alumnus of the University of Illinois (in Champagne, IL), a former President of Oakland s Beth Jacob Congregation, and previous Board member of the Anti-Defamation League.
He has been practicing regulation with Arthur Lazear for more than 30 years, is married, and has 4 youngsters.
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- Antitrust Law
- Civil Rights
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Discrimination, Employment, Fair Housing, Police Misconduct, Privacy Law
- Consumer Law
- Class Action, Lemon Law
- Elder Law
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, ERISA, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
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- Founding Partner
Hoffman& Lazear
1971
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