Attorney Profiles

Fox & Robertson, P.C.:  Tim Fox and Amy Robertson are the principals of Fox & Robertson, P.C. Amy graduated from Yale Law School in 1988, where she was Executive Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Tim graduated from Stanford Law School in 1991, where he was a member of the Stanford Law Review.

    Tim and Amy have litigated numerous cases under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Fair Housing Act, and Colorado and California state laws protecting the rights of persons with disabilities. They have been appointed class counsel in: Moeller v. Taco Bell Corp., Case No. 02-5849 MJJ (N.D. Cal.); Lucas v. Kmart Corp., Civil Action No. 99-cv-1923-JLK (D. Colo.); Farrar-Kuhn v. Conoco, Inc., Civil Action No. 99-MK-2086 (D. Colo.); Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition v. Taco Bell Corp., Civil Action No. 97-B-2135 (D. Colo.); and Colorado Cross-Disability Coalition v. Fey Concert Company, et al., Civil Action No. 97-Z-1586 (D. Colo.).

    Tim and Amy have spoken frequently on the topic of the rights of persons with disabilities, including presentations for the National Employment Lawyers’ Association, the National Association of Protection and Advocacy Services, the Anti-Discrimination Center of Metro New York, the National Lawyers’ Guild, the Colorado Trial Lawyers’ Association and the Colorado Bar Association.

    Tim and Amy contributed to Colorado Employment Law, and Amy was the author of "Standing to Sue Under Title III of the ADA," 27 Colo. Lwr. 51 (1998).

Lawson Law Offices:  Antonio Lawson is a 1985 graduate of U.C. Berkeley and 1988 graduate of Harvard Law School. He founded U.C. Berkeley's Racial-Minority Education Advisory Program and served on U.C. Berkeley's Special Actions Admissions Committee and Disabled Students Advisory Committee. At Harvard, Antonio was a member of the Legal Aid Bureau at Harvard Law School. Following law school, Antonio was associated with the San Francisco law firm of Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum from 1988 through 1990. In 1990, Mr. Lawson joined the Oakland, California firm of Saperstein Seligman Mayeda & Goldstein. At the Saperstein firm, Antonio specialized in developing and litigating employment and civil rights class actions.

    Antonio was one of the lead attorneys on several class actions including Ridgeway v. Dennys' Restaurants, Inc. ($34 million recovery in public accommodations case) and Haynes v. Shoney's Restaurants, Inc. ($132 million settlement in employment race case).

    In 1995, Antonio founded Lawson Law Offices, continuing his representation of plaintiffs in class and individual employment matters. In June 1997, he successful argued before the California Supreme Court in Stevenson v. Superior Court 16 Cal.4th 880 (1997)(established common law age discrimination claims).

Mari Mayeda:  Mari specializes in class action employment discrimination and civil rights litigation. She was lead counsel for the California plaintiffs in the race discrimination case against the Denny's restaurant chain and in the race and gender discrimination cases against the Save Mart and Albertson's grocery chains. With her former partners, Mari represented plaintiffs in recovering over $200 million from the State Farm Insurance Companies for their refusal to hire women as sales agents. She was a member of the Ninth Circuit Task Force on Racial, Religious and Ethnic Fairness and has also served by appointment of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California on a number of court committees. She is a 1983 cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School. She received her bachelor's degree, with highest honors, from the University of California at Davis.

The Impact Fund is a public foundation dedicated to providing representation, technical assistance and funding for complex, public interest litigation. The Impact Fund is currently involved in ground-breaking litigation, including the largest civil rights class action lawsuit in history, Dukes v. Wal-Mart. The Impact Fund attorneys working on this case include Brad Seligman and Jocelyn Larkin.

    Brad is the Executive Director of the Impact Fund and has been a civil rights attorney specializing in class action and individual employment and civil right litigation for the last 24 years. He has successfully litigated over 45 civil rights class actions and countless individual employment cases including wrongful termination actions. Brad successfully tried and then settled the third largest sex discrimination class action recovery in history ($107.25 million) (Stender v. Lucky Stores,803 F.Supp. 259 (N.D.Cal.1992). He was co-lead counsel in the then largest Americans with Disabilities Act access settlement, Arnold v. United Artists Theater Circuit 158 F.R.D. 439 (N.D.Cal.1994). He recently settled the largest disability employment class action ever (Glover v. Potter).

    Jocelyn Larkin is a Litigation Counsel for The Impact Fund. Jocelyn has served as class counsel in several major employment class actions, including Stender v. Lucky Stores, Vandell v. Chevron Corporation, and Babbitt v. Albertson's.
 

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