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Our mission is to provide the maximum recovery for
wrongful employment actions.
To serve our mission we provide education, clarity and legal
advice to empower clients to make choices that meet their personal
desired outcomes given the strength of their individual cases. We
provide guidance that helps our clients experience closure and
healing following a loss of employment opporutnity. We apply our
expertise in employment law, our research and writing ability, our
office systems, and our courtroom skills to reach the best possible
outcome.
About Employee Rights Attorney Frank Pray:
Mr. Pray was recently elected by his peers as the "Chair Elect"
of the Orange County Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law
Section. He will serve as the Chair in 2011. Currently, he
provides co-leadership with the Chair to present monthly
educational and networking opportunities to the Section's
membership.
Professional Memberships and Licenses
All state courts -- State Bar of CA, Bar No. 74920 (Francis
Pray)
Federal Courts: Southern, Central, and Eastern U.S. District Courts
& Ninth Circuit
Member: California Employment Lawyers Association & National
Employment Lawyers Association
Member: Labor & Employment Law Sections of the Orange County
Bar Association and State Bar Associations
Member, California Trial Lawyers Association
Litigation Experience
Approx. five jury trials to favorable verdict
About 20 Arbitrations
Over 100 mediations and settlement conferences
Over 500 depositions
Formal & Continuing Education
Daily review of Employment Law case law and statutory law
changes
Monthly seminars concerning employment law and practice skills
through Orange Co Bar Ass'n
Law Degree: University of San Diego, 1977 (Two Published Comment
Articles in San Diego Law Review.)
Business Courses: Executive MBA (2 years), UCLA 1987 (Including
clinical program with Aire Liquide, Paris, France)
Undergraduate: So. Illinois Univ. 1973 (cum laude)
Chronology of Professional Experience
• Workers Compensation Applicant's Lawyer: 2 years
• General Practice, own firm: 3 years
• Attorney for Subrogation Department of the State Fund: 6
years
• Real Estate Litagation Counsel: 3 years
• Insurance Defense Lawyer for two major Los Angeles firms: 2
years
• Business Litigator: 2 years
• Employee Rights Lawyer in mid-sized firm: 4 years
• Employee Rights Lawyer, business owner: currently--13
years.
• Courts where cases have been tried: Santa Barbara, Ventura,
Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside, San Diego, and Orange
Counties.
About Gregory Diamond:
Bar Admissions:
New York, 2004; California, 2008
Work Experience:
Employment Law Office of Frank Pray: 2009.
Associate, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, New York, N.Y.
2004-2006.
Law Clerk to Betty Binns Fletcher, Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals (Seattle WA) 2002-2003
College Professor, Univ. of Illinois, 1990-1994;
Education:
Columbia University School of Law, J.D. 2002 (Senior Editor,
Columbia Law Review)
University of Michigan, PhD, M.A. 1986, Social Psychology.
California State University, B.A., with distinction, 1982,
Psychology.
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