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About Ethan Goemann
I have won jury trials, secured favorable verdicts through motions practice, and reached successful mediation outcomes for high profile matters. I now use my knowledge and experience to advocate for people from every walk of life and help them navigate the complex landscape of employment law. Ethan is a seasoned employment lawyer based in Atlanta, Georgia, representing individuals in employment disputes. Prior to joining Sommers Schwartz, Ethan was a senior associate at one of the leading management-side employment law firms in the United States. After years of defending multinational companies from wage and hour, discrimination, and retaliation lawsuits, Ethan has shifted to championing the rights of employees and using all his insight into employer practices to benefit his clients.
His insider knowledge allows him to effectively anticipate and counter employer's defenses, providing a powerful advantage to his clients. Ethan specializes in wage and hour disputes and is passionate about ensuring fair treatment for employees and helping them navigate complex legal issues. He is the chapter author for the American Bar Association's Wage and Hour, State-by-State treatise for Georgia and North Carolina. Ethan previously served as a law clerk for the Honorable Graham C. Mullen in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
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A class settlement with Michigan Pain Specialists resolved claims of 311 patients and survivors of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak traced to contaminated steroid injections. It was reached in Livingston County Circuit Court in March 2016. The $10.5 million is a single class figure that the sources do not itemise by patient. Robert B. Sickels of Sommers Schwartz PC sat on the three-attorney plaintiffs' steering committee for Michigan.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
On April 25, 2014, a Saginaw County jury returned a $1,612,269 verdict for Debra Cameron and her husband, Hugh, against family physician James V. Bodrie, M.D. The jury found he failed to pursue a cardiac workup despite months of symptoms and a chest X-ray showing an enlarged heart, and that Ms. Cameron suffered a major heart attack days later. The award included $262,268.86 in medical expenses, with the rest for non-economic damages, and the vote was 6-2. Michigan's 2014 cap on non-economic damages in malpractice cases limits that portion to $440,200, so the most that could stand was about $702,469, and no appeal was filed.
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