John Godoy

Attorney at Arnold Law Firm
Sacramento, CAAdmitted 2008

About John Godoy

John Godoy has practiced plaintiff-side employment litigation in California since 2008, representing workers in wage and hour violations, wrongful termination, retaliation, discrimination, and employee misclassification cases. Born in Michigan, he moved to the East Bay at age four. He attended UC San Diego and received a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2003, then earned his J.D. from California Western School of Law in 2007.

Since 2010, his primary focus has been wage theft cases involving improper salaries and mischaracterized work hours, as well as wrongful termination and related employee rights issues. He has extensive experience in California superior courts, federal district courts, and before the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement. His background in both engineering and law gives him a technical precision useful in data-intensive wage and hour disputes.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Arnold Law Firm

These results are credited to Arnold Law Firm. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$60 millionSettlement

M. Anderson Berry of Arnold Law Firm was among plaintiffs' counsel in a $60 million class action settlement against Morgan Stanley Smith Barney arising from two separate failures to secure customer data on decommissioned IT equipment, affecting approximately 15 million current and former clients.

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$21 millionSettlement

M. Anderson Berry of Arnold Law Firm was appointed as one of three court-appointed class counsel in a consolidated class action securing a $21 million settlement for roughly 3.5 million people whose personal and financial data was exposed in a 2020 ransomware attack on global insurance broker Arthur J. Gallagher and Co.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · 2025Class ActionsRead the full story →
$17.6 millionSettlement

Arnold Law Firm attorney M. Anderson Berry served as plaintiffs' co-counsel in a $17.6 million class action settlement resolving claims that Kemper Corp. and subsidiary Infinity Insurance failed to protect the personal data of approximately 6.1 million customers across two separate breaches in 2020 and 2021.

U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · 2022Class ActionsRead the full story →
$3.96 million

Scott Ryan Eisenbrandt Jr. was killed in a collision involving a hauling company's truck shortly after its owner bought a commercial policy in 2006. His widow and parents won a California Superior Court wrongful-death judgment of $3,964,030.77 against the truck's owner, entered January 21, 2011. They then defeated the owner's insurer in federal court, which had tried to rescind the commercial policy, and the court ordered the insurer to pay the policy's face amount with interest.

California Superior Court; collection action in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California, Sacramento · 2011Wrongful DeathRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

California Western School of Law
J.D., 2007
University of California, San Diego
Undergraduate, 2003

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 2008

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$1.85 Million Verdict After Dump Truck Veers Into Sacramento Driver, L5-S1 Fusion Surgery Required

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.