Karl Anthony Gerber

Biographical Information

Karl Gerber has fought, in Superior and Federal Court, close to 1,300 cases filed on behalf of employees who had problems at work. Mr. Gerber's clients include employees from all types of industries, at all levels, ranging from workers earning less than minimum wage to employees earning more than $1,000,000.00 a year.

Karl Gerber is a 2010 & 2011 Southern California Super Lawyer which is a designation based upon other lawyers voting and then verification by Super Lawyer. Less than 5% of the attorneys nationwide achieve this status of receiving enough votes from other lawyers and judges to be designated a Super Lawyer.

Mr. Gerber handles all types of labor disputes including, but not limited to, discrimination cases (including pregnancy, medical issues, disability, etc.), wrongful termination, sexual harassment, lawsuits regarding unpaid wages, and contracts. In the last few years Mr. Gerber has received particular recognition amongst the legal profession as being regarded as an expert in the field of sexual harassment and the recovery of unpaid wages on behalf of groups of employees under Labor Code Section 2699. Recently, the Los Angeles Daily Journal, Southern California's daily newspaper for lawyers, quoted Mr. Gerber as being "an expert in sexual harassment." Mr. Gerber has also been on the cutting edge of Labor Code Section 2699 writing a published article on the subject, speaking at a convention for Labor lawyers on Labor Code Section 2699, and receiving continuing education credit for providing a continuing education lecture to labor lawyers on the topic of Labor Code Section 2699.

Mr. Gerber's articles on employment and labor law have been published in a wide variety of places from legal periodicals to a newspaper specifically dealing with issues relating to pregnancy. Recently, a national journal quickly picked up Mr. Gerber's article on mediation.

Mr. Gerber regularly supervises, mentors, and works jointly with his associate attorneys. Mr. Gerber also handles some of the firm's largest cases, without any help. Besides litigating cases through adjudication, Mr. Gerber practices appellate law with a high rate of success.

Mr. Gerber is considered so good at what he does, he was asked by corporate counsel in charge of litigation Mr. Gerber brought on behalf of a client, to handle the attorney's own labor case. He has also been asked by executives he has deposed in an adversarial fashion to represent them on their labor disputes. This year, a supermarket chain Mr. Gerber went up against asked him to provide sexual harassment training for their management following the conclusion of the case.

In recent years, Mr. Gerber's clients have included, amongst other professionals, attorneys, chief financial officers, high technology sales directors earning seven figure salaries, operations managers, high end sales people, counselors, teachers, and insurance adjusters. Mr. Gerber also frequently represents employees working in food service, gas stations cashiers, mechanics, drivers, dispatchers, clerical departments, construction, warehouses, medical offices, bank workers, and aerospace engineers.

Mr. Gerber has also developed a focus in his practice aimed at representing Hispanic women who have been sexually harassed. In numerous cases he has obtained recoveries for these often low wage workers who do not speak English, in the mid $200,000.00 range. Since high school, Mr. Gerber has been trying to learn as much Spanish as possible. Besides taking classes, Mr. Gerber has traveled to Mexico for vacation, and kept his boat in Ensenada for several months which allowed him to visit most weekends during that period of time. Although he is able to read and understand most Spanish, Mr. Gerber prefers to handle cases on behalf of monolingual clients with a bi-lingual associate attorney and/or one of the native Spanish speakers employed by the Employment Lawyer's Group.

Although Mr. Gerber's cases often involve large recoveries, his criteria for taking a case is not how much it may be worth. Mr. Gerber takes cases because it is the right thing to do because of legal or ethical principles.