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For the last 26 years, Brad Seligman has been a civil rights attorney specializing in class action and individual employment and civil rights litigation. He is the executive director of a public foundation, The Impact Fund, which provides financial and technical assistance and representation for complex public interest litigation. Since 1992, it has made over $4 million in grants to support such litigation. From 1988-1991, he was the managing partner of the Oakland firm of Saperstein, Seligman, Mayeda and Larkin. From September 1991 until June 1994, he was of counsel to the firm's successor, Saperstein, Mayeda and Goldstein. He was a senior Law Clerk to Judge Lawrence K. Karlton of the Eastern District of California, and an extern to Justice Matthew O. Tobriner of the California Supreme Court.
He has successfully litigated over 45 civil rights class actions and countless individual employment cases including wrongful termination actions. He 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) and settled the first major challenge to the use of psychological testing by a private employer (Soroka v. Dayton Hudson Corp dba Target Stores). 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 settled the largest disability employment class action ever (Glover v. Potter,(EEOC 2004)). He represented one of the principal objectors to the Georgine class action settlement before the 3d Circuit and the United States Supreme Court, where the standards for assessing settlement classes were handed down. (Anchem Products, Inc. v. Windsor, 521 U.S. 591(1997).
Before the California Supreme Court, he has argued, among other cases, Sav-On Drug Stores, Inc. v, Superior Court, 34 Cal.4th 319 (2004), which established class certification standards in overtime class actions and City of Moorpark v. Superior Court, 18 Cal.4th 1143(1998) a case which established that disability discrimination claims under the Fair Employment and Housing Act are not preempted by the Workers' Compensation Act. He is lead counsel in the nationwide class action sex discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores (Dukes v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. 222 FRD 137 (N.D.Cal.2004), which is the largest civil rights class action ever certified. He is also lead counsel in a nationwide glass ceiling gender discrimination case against Costco.
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