Brian Sanford and Elizabeth “BB” Sanford are partners in the Sanford Firm specializing in representing employees at trial and arbitration. Arbitration of employment disputes are now part of the familiar litigation landscape. Navigating the process to a successful resolution, an attorney needs all the skills available for a courtroom trial, from selection of a decision maker to the final award. Arbitrations are similar to bench [...]
If you can foresee a problem , you can prepare for or prevent it. Discrimination and retaliation are foreseeable because businesses know that discrimination and retaliation are prevalent in the United States. A Glassdoor survey reports that 61 percent, or about three in five U.S. employees have witnessed or experienced discrimination in the workplace.[1] The same survey reports that 42 percent of employed adults in [...]
An individual who brings a Title VII discrimination or retaliation suit “takes on the mantel of the sovereign,” Jenkins v. United Gas Corp., 400 F.2d 28, 32 (5th Cir. 1968). The Civil Rights Act of 1866 and Title VII’s purposes are to eliminate discrimination and recompense those who have suffered from it. Id. The Fifth Circuit has said: When, as frequently is the case, the [...]
Congratulations to Elizabeth J. Sanford on being named one of D Magazine's 2023 Best Lawyers Under 40!
Article by Rachel Rippetoe, published on December 22, 2022 in law360.com Taking on roles as courtroom Davids battling Goliaths like Monsanto and FedEx, small firms thisyear notched dozens of multimillion-dollar verdicts on behalf of their clients. Racking up big-ticket jury verdicts were claims ranging from worker retaliation to wrongfuldeath and emotional distress. Here, Law360 Pulse rounded up five of the biggest verdicts won by the [...]
For Immediate Release The National Trial Lawyers is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Sanford of The Sanford Firm in Dallas has been re-selected as an NTL - Civil Plaintiff - Top 40 under 40 Trial Lawyer in the state of Texas after their first year as an exceptionally respected member. This honor is given to only the top 40 under 40 attorneys for their superior [...]
Article by Arcelia Martin published on DallasNews.com in Nov 14, 2022 Jennifer Harris was a rising star, climbing the corporate ranks of delivery giant FedEx from entry-level sales to leading her own team more than a decade later. So when her supervisor suggested she take a demotion in March 2019, she was frustrated and caught off-guard. When she didn’t step down, the Fort Worth woman said [...]
Some employers will bury dangerous language in the small print of documents an employee is required to sign at the start of a job. An example is FedEx’s “employment agreement” requiring that any lawsuit an employee brings for a violation of the law by FedEx must be brought within six months. A suit based on race discrimination under our country’s oldest civil rights act, the [...]
The law says that it is unlawful for an employer to discriminate because of race. It is also unlawful for an employer to retaliate against an employee for engaging in protected activity. Protected activity is reporting or opposing race discrimination, or participating as a witness in a discrimination case. The history of these two laws is central to the core of who we are [...]
In February, 2022, a jury awarded 10 engineers we represented $7 million each in damages for discrimination and retaliation. The Dallas Morning News ran the story on its front page. https://www.dallasnews.com