The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm is a general litigation firm. We represent organizations in a range of litigation and counseling matters, and we represent employees in individual and group actions. We have the experience and ability to handle a wide variety of legal claims, both for plaintiffs and defendants. Our firm is included in the U.S. News and World Report's 2022 "Best Law Firms" ranking for Litigation - Labor & Employment. Please see below for detail on our practice areas.
For organizations pursuing or defending commercial legal claims, The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm offers litigation skills honed in the world of large-firm corporate litigation practice, but with the efficiency and personal focus of a small firm. We handle breach-of-contract, fraud, fiduciary duty, business tort, and intellectual property claims, among others. Since our founding in early 2018, the firm has represented organizations in the technology, healthcare, retail, wholesale, consulting, agricultural, and service industries. Prior to starting the firm, Mr. Jhaveri-Weeks was part of legal teams handling the following representations:
- Hedge fund asserting commercial claims in international arbitration.
- Board of telecom company defending claims of fiduciary breach.
- Major Hollywood publication in copyright infringement action and in resisting discovery into confidential news sources.
- Foreign supplier of energy equipment in contract dispute with U.S. company.
- Hedge fund manager in dispute with bondholders of foreign oil and gas company.
- Major international bank defending antitrust claims involving auction-rate securities.
- Global insurance company defending securities class action.
- Agricultural technology company in USDA regulatory proceedings and related litigation.
- U.S.-based client resisting discovery sought in connection with foreign proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 1782.
The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm serves as class counsel in employment cases. Mr. Jhaveri-Weeks was previously a partner at a preeminent class action firm, where he represented classes of employees and consumers. Recent class claims handled by The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm include misclassification of employees as “exempt” from overtime and meal- and rest-break requirements, and failure to reimburse business expenses.
Current representations include:
Current representations include:
- Class counsel and proposed class counsel on behalf of adjunct professors asserting wage law protections at private California universities.
- Counsel for employees asserting representative group claims under California's Private Attorneys General Act ("PAGA") based on alleged misclassification, off-the-clock work, and failure to reimburse business expenses.
- Class counsel in multiple cases representing business development representatives and territory managers claiming unpaid overtime wages and meal and rest period premium pay.
- Class counsel on behalf of residential tenants charged late fees alleged to violate California law.
- Represented real estate appraisers classified as exempt from overtime requirements.
- Represented proposed class of consumers who purchased laminated flooring sourced from China that emitted formaldehyde above California legal limits.
- Represented proposed classes and/or collective actions on behalf of assistant managers classified as exempt from overtime pay.
- Represented class of employees challenging unlawful background check policies.
- Represented commissioned sales employees challenging employer's practices concerning commission pay.
The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm represents employees confronting a variety of workplace violations. We litigate claims in state and federal court, and also assist clients in resolving claims without filing suit. From 2018 to 2021, Mr. Jhaveri-Weeks has been named to LawDragon's "500 Leading Plaintiff Employment and Civil Rights Lawyers" nationwide. The firm also offers counseling and representation to employers. Areas of representation include:
- Discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination claims
- Founder disputes
- Wage law violations
- Breach of employment contract or commission agreement
The Jhaveri-Weeks Firm offers representation in state and federal appeals. Over the course of his career, Mr. Jhaveri-Weeks has authored or co-authored appellate briefs in the Second, Sixth, Eighth, and Ninth Circuit federal courts of appeals, and has briefed and argued appeals in the California and New York state appellate courts. He served as a law clerk for a federal appeals judge.
Examples of appellate experience at prior firms include:
Examples of appellate experience at prior firms include:
- Authored briefs and argued appeal of class certification decision in California Court of Appeal.
- Authored briefs and argued appeal of resentencing petition in New York Appellate Division.
- Authored briefs in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal cases involving enforceability of arbitration agreements.
- Authored amicus brief for National Employment Lawyers Association ("NELA") in Sixth Circuit appeal of trial verdict for plaintiffs in off-the-clock overtime case. Brief available here.
- Assisted in briefing California appeal resulting in reversal of termination of union employee and reinstatement with backpay.
- Assisted in obtaining affirmance of summary judgment in Second Circuit for clients accused of breach of fiduciary duty to insolvent corporation; defeated petition for certiorari to United States Supreme Court.
- Assisted in representing Mexican national in pro bono case reaching the U.S. Supreme Court. Medellin v. Texas, 552 U.S. 491 (2008); 554 U.S. 759 (2008).