Shegerian & Associates - Riverside, CA

Tireless Advocacy for Wronged Employees Throughout Riverside

Experiencing mistreatment, harassment, or unlawful discharge at work can devastate your professional standing, personal dignity, and financial security. At Shegerian and Associates in Riverside, employees receive unmatched legal advocacy backed by one of the most formidable trial records in the United States. Founded in 1996 by Carney R. Shegerian, the firm has spent three decades standing up to powerful multinational corporations, healthcare conglomerates, and municipal agencies. Regardless of your job title or pay grade, California employment and labor laws guarantee you the right to a fair, lawful, and safe working environment free from abuse.

Corporate defense firms and corporate human resources departments often deploy intimidating tactics to silence employees who report wrongdoing. If you urgently need an attorney to hold a negligent employer accountable, Shegerian and Associates provides immediate intervention. Operating with an extraordinary ninety-eight percent courtroom success rate, the firm prepares every complaint for a full jury presentation, ensuring that corporate adversaries recognize the serious risks of refusing fair accountability.

Core Employment Law and Civil Rights Practice Areas

Shegerian and Associates handles the full spectrum of California employment litigation and civil rights claims:

• Wrongful termination: Defending employees who have been illegally fired for asserting statutory rights, exercising medical leaves, or objecting to unlawful employer practices.
• Workplace discrimination: Representing workers subjected to adverse treatment, demotion, or termination based on race, age, sex, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, religion, or national origin.
• Sexual harassment and hostile workplace: Prosecuting employers and supervisors for quid pro quo advances, unwelcome physical conduct, graphic remarks, and toxic workplace environments.
• Whistleblower retaliation: Protecting brave employees who report corporate fraud, OSHA safety hazards, or consumer safety violations from employer retribution.
• Wage and hour violations: Pursuing full recovery for unpaid overtime, meal and rest break denials, off-the-clock work, and improper employee misclassification.
• Medical and family leave violations: Enforcing state and federal protections under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and California Family Rights Act (CFRA).
• Catastrophic personal injury: Representing victims of catastrophic accidents and wrongful death claims seeking total financial recovery.

Over 100 Jury Trial Victories and Landmark Financial Recoveries

Founding partner Carney R. Shegerian is widely celebrated as one of the preeminent trial attorneys of his generation. Honored as Trial Lawyer of the Year and consistently featured in the Daily Journal Top 100 Lawyers in California and Southern California Super Lawyers, Carney Shegerian has tried over one hundred jury trials to verdict. He has secured landmark verdicts including a 103-million-dollar age bias judgment, a 32.2-million-dollar disability discrimination verdict, and dozens of additional eight-figure outcomes. This unrivaled trial readiness provides extraordinary settlement leverage for clients facing entrenched corporate defendants.

Request a Free Confidential Consultation at Our Riverside Office

Strict statutes of limitation govern California workplace claims, making prompt legal evaluation critical to protecting your evidence and remedies. If you want to hire an attorney with a proven history of defeating the nation's biggest employers, contact Shegerian and Associates on Elizabeth Street in Riverside. The firm operates on a strict contingency fee agreement where you pay nothing unless compensation is won, and compassionate legal staff are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call today for your free, confidential consultation.