Randall Strauss
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.
Notable case results
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.
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.
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.
In age discrimination case involving 130 plaintiffs over a six-year, two-trial litigation; finalists for Public Justice Trial Lawyer of the Year 2016
Plaintiff verdict in Andrews v. LLNS employment discrimination case
Plaintiff verdict in Wiley v. Wyndham for employment retaliation
For a whistleblower fired from the San Francisco Police Department in retaliation for participating in a disciplinary proceeding
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
