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Randall Strauss

Proven Verdicts
Oakland, CAAdmitted 1993

About Randall Strauss

Randall E. Strauss is the Managing Partner and a leading employment litigation attorney with an extensive record in California and federal courts. He was a central figure in a complex age discrimination case involving 130 plaintiffs who had been wrongfully terminated; after more than six years and two trials, the case settled for $37.25 million. For that work, he and partners Gary Gwilliam and Robert Schwartz were finalists for the 2016 Trial Lawyer of the Year award given by Public Justice. Mr. Strauss received his B.A. from UC Berkeley in 1988 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law in 1993, where he had previously attended Golden Gate University School of Law on a full tuition honors scholarship. Outside the office, he plays guitar with his band, follows the San Francisco Giants, and spends time with his family.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$37.25 millionSettlement

One hundred twenty-nine former Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory workers, most of them over 50, shared a $37.25 million settlement after a series of jury trials established that the lab breached their employment contracts during a 2008 mass layoff that followed privatization of the facility.

Alameda County Superior Court · 2015Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$2.73 millionVerdict

An Alameda County jury awarded $2.73 million to five test plaintiffs after finding that Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC violated its own inverse-seniority layoff policy when it cut more than 400 workers in 2008.

Alameda County Superior Court · 2013Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
Settlement

Gwilliam Ivary filed suit in Alameda County on behalf of roughly 50 UCSF information technology employees who were laid off after the university contracted with India-based HCL Technologies, alleging the replacement workforce was dramatically younger and drawn from a single national origin.

Alameda County Superior CourtWorkplace InjuryRead the full story →
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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
J.D., 1993
University of California, Berkeley
Undergraduate, 1988

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of California, admitted 1993

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