PRACTICE AREAS
Explore NorCal Advocates’ practice areas, including employment law, workers’ compensation, Self-Storage units, consumer disputes, and class actions.
EMPLOYMENT LAW
Navigating the complexities of employment law can be challenging, but you don't have to face it alone. Our team at NorCal Advocates is here to help you understand your rights and provide you with the support and representation you need.
Our Employment Law services include:
Our Employment Law services include:
- Discrimination & Harassment: Fighting against discrimination and harassment based on race, gender, age, disability, and more.
- Retaliation: Pursuing legal action on behalf of employees who have faced retaliation for exercising their rights, such as reporting discrimination, unsafe working conditions, or other unlawful conduct.
- Wrongful Termination: Advocating for employees who have been unjustly terminated from their jobs.
- Wage & Hour Disputes: Ensuring that employees receive fair compensation for their work, including overtime pay and minimum wage violations.
- Leaves of Absence: Upholding employees' rights to take legally entitled leaves, such as those for medical conditions, disabilities, or pregnancy, and other mandated time off, free from discrimination.
- Workplace Safety: Campaigning for safe employment and representing employees in cases with unsafe working conditions.
- Employment Contracts and Severance Agreements: Reviewing and negotiating employment contracts and severance agreements to protect your rights and interests.
- Class Action Lawsuits: Joining forces with other employees to hold employers accountable for widespread wrongdoing.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION
Having a workers’ compensation injury can be incredibly difficult, especially when it impacts your health and ability to financially support yourself and family. NorCal Advocates is dedicated to helping injured workers navigate California Workers’ Compensation’s medical and legal systems to ensure they receive the best treatment and all entitled benefits.
Our Workers' Compensation services include:
Our Workers' Compensation services include:
- Denied Claims: Overturning denials of workers’ compensation injuries by defendant insurance companies based on medical or legal grounds.
- Primary Treatment Physician Selection: Identifying and connecting injured workers with the best available physicians to address their needs.
- Medical Legal Discovery: Advocating for injured workers to see the best possible evaluators to thoroughly address the injury.
- Utilization Review and Independent Medical Review Appeals: Appealing defendant denials or modifications of treatment requested by your physicians.
- Death Claims: Fighting to ensure that disputes regarding on the job fatalities are recognized by the defendants and compensation paid to the decedent’s survivors and dependents.
SELF-STORAGE UNITS
At NorCal Advocates, we’ve built a reputation going after self-storage facility operators who break the law. When these companies cross the line—usually through theft, deception, or false advertising—we step in to hold them accountable.
Our Self-Storage Unit legal services include:
Our Self-Storage Unit legal services include:
- Theft & Conversion: Representing consumers whose belongings were wrongfully taken from their units.
- Fraud & False Advertising: Holding storage operators accountable for misleading consumers about unit security.
- Unlawful Contracts: Fighting back against unfair or one-sided rental agreements that attempt to shield companies from liability.
- Emotional Distress: Seeking compensation for the emotional harm caused by the loss of cherished personal property.
- Punitive Damages & Penalties: Harnessing California law to punish and penalize storage operators for intentional misconduct.
CONSUMER DISPUTES
When consumers are treated unfairly by businesses, NorCal Advocates is here to level the playing field. Our dedicated attorneys focus on consumer rights law and are ready to fight for you against deceptive practices and unfair treatment.
Our Consumer Disputes services include:
Our Consumer Disputes services include:
- Consumer Fraud: Seeking compensation for consumers who have been misled or deceived by false advertising or deceptive business practices.
- Lemon Law: Holding manufacturers and dealers accountable for defective vehicles, RVs, and more.
- Warranty Claims: Fighting against deceptive and unfair warranty practices.
- Contract Disputes: Resolving disputes arising from contracts for goods or services, ensuring that consumers are treated fairly under the law.
- Class Action Lawsuits: Joining forces with other consumers to hold large corporations accountable for widespread wrongdoing.
CONTINGENCY FEE WORK
We understand that you may be coming to us in a hard time in your life when paying for an attorney is not possible. We take great pride in being able to serve you on a contingency basis, meaning you are not charged any upfront fees, and more often than not, we are able to advance all litigation costs. By doing this, we place you on equal footing with your often much larger employer or other defendant who is able to spend top dollar on "big firms."
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