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John S. West - Los Angeles, CA
6300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1500 Los Angeles, CA 90048
Allred, Maroko & Goldberg
Los Angeles Employment Litigation Lawyer
Overview
John S. West is a partner at Allred, Maroko & Goldberg.
He graduated from Loyola Law School in 1981. He specializes in employment litigation and employee claims negotiations. His clients include highly compensated senior executives.
Mr. West has also represented individuals in many noteworthy business, tort, civil rights, and appellate cases. For example, he represented a child injured when baseball star Vince Coleman detonated an explosive device in a stadium parking lot...
John S. West is a partner at Allred, Maroko & Goldberg.
He graduated from Loyola Law School in 1981. He specializes in employment litigation and employee claims negotiations. His clients include highly compensated senior executives.
Mr. West has also represented individuals in many noteworthy business, tort, civil rights, and appellate cases. For example, he represented a child injured when baseball star Vince Coleman detonated an explosive device in a stadium parking lot...
John S. West is a partner at Allred, Maroko & Goldberg.
He graduated from Loyola Law School in 1981. He specializes in employment litigation and employee claims negotiations. His clients include highly compensated senior executives.
Mr. West has also represented individuals in many noteworthy business, tort, civil rights, and appellate cases. For example, he represented a child injured when baseball star Vince Coleman detonated an explosive device in a stadium parking lot. He also represented a video photographer attacked by rock musician Tommy Lee.
In another highly publicized case, Mr. West represented a female client who, during infertility treatments, had her eggs stolen, fertilized, and implanted into another woman. He also represented a young woman who was the victim of a conspiracy by a number of priests, enticing her to engage in sexual intercourse (see Rita M. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop, 187 Cal.App.3d 1453, 232 Cal.Rptr. 685 (1987).
Mr. West won a leading case decided under the Unruh Civil Rights act, Engel v. Worthington, 60 Cal.App.4th 628, 70 Cal.Rptr.2d 526 (1997). In that case, a publisher refused to print a photograph of a man and his male partner in a high school reunion yearbook. Mr. West successfully appealed the case from three separate decisions over a ten-year period. (See also, Engel v. Worthington, 23 Cal.Rptr.2d 329 1994.)
Over the years, Mr. West has also litigated many business disputes and matters involving injunctive relief. Acting on behalf of the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund, Mr. West co-wrote an amicus curiae ('friend of the court') brief that was accepted by the United States Court of Appeal in the case brought by Paula Jones against President Clinton.
He recently obtained a federal appellate reversal from the Second Circuit (New York) for a client in a case involving a conflict of laws between the states of New York and California (see Cap Genimi v. Nackel, 346 F 3d 360 (2nd Cir. 2003).
In 2000 Mr. West and his partner, Nathan Goldberg, won a $1 million dollar jury verdict in an age discrimination case. The Court also awarded $550,000 in attorneys fees in that matter.
Mr. West is the author of a number of published articles on employment law, including articles on the circumstances under which partners are covered by employee anti-discrimination statutes, conditions for triggering "hostile environment" prohibitions of Federal law, and trends in holding employers responsible for sexual misconduct of employees under tort law principles.
Mr. West's professional activities include serving as a member of the Executive Committee of the Labor and Employment section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He frequently speaks on employment law for attorney and business groups. Mr. West also serves as a court-appointed arbitrator in civil disputes.
Mr. West frequently speaks on employment law for attorney and business groups. He also serves as a court-appointed arbitrator in civil disputes.
Mr. West has been named a Southern California "SuperLawyer" by Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine.
About John S. West
Practice Areas
- Employment Litigation
- Employee Claims Negotiations
- Wrongful Termination
- Sex, Age and Race Discrimination
Representative Cases
- Rita M. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop, 187 Cal.App.3d 1453 (1987)
- Rita M. v. Roman Catholic Archbishop, 232 Cal.Rptr. 685 (1987)
- Engel v. Worthington, 60 Cal.App.4th 628 (1997)
- Engel v. Worthington, 70 Cal.Rptr.2d 526 (1997)
- Engel v. Worthington, 23 Cal.Rptr.2d 329 (1994)
- Cap Genimi v. Nackel, 346 F 3d 360 (2nd Cir. 2003)
Qualifications
Other Affiliations
- Los Angeles County Bar Association, Labor and Employment Section (Member, Executive Committee)
Classes and Seminars
- Frequent Speaker, Employment Law for Attorney and Business Groups
Pro Bono Activities
- Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund
Education
- Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, California, 1981
Office Information
Address
6300 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1500 Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone
Fax
- 323-653-1660
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About John S. West
Included on the 2023 Southern California list
Past Lists
- 2022 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2006 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2005 Southern California Super Lawyers list
- 2004 Southern California Super Lawyers list
Honors
- Southern California SuperLawyer, Law & Politics and Los Angeles Magazine, 2004 - 2018
- Selected to Super Lawyers, 2022
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