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We have an employment discrimination group of lawyers and support staff with the experience and knowledge to handle all types of discrimination including sex discrimination, national origin and race discrimination, religious discrimination, age discrimination, equal pay cases and retaliation.

The staff includes a lawyer who was a trial attorney with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. for four years and supervised litigation for the Phoenix District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") for seventeen years. The team is also led by counsel who has been handling employment discrimination cases for more than eight years with numerous civil trials.

The employment discrimination group at O'Steen & Harrison, PLC has represented victims of sexual harassment and other discrimination against large corporations, government agencies, professional athletes and major figures in the entertainment world. We have the experience and resources to take on these types of defendants in the interest of getting justice and proper financial compensation for our clients.

Sexual harassment is a type of sex discrimination that violates federal and state law. It is one of the most prevalent and offensive types of discrimination and exists in both small and large companies.

Sexual harassment includes unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which affects an individual's employment, unreasonably interferes with an individual's work performance or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work environment.

Sexual harassment can occur in many different ways. The EEOC states:

1. The victim as well as the harasser may be a woman or a man. The victim does not have to be of the opposite sex.
2. The harasser can be the victim's supervisor, an agent of the employer, a supervisor in another area, a co-worker, or a non-employee.
3. The victim does not have to be the person harassed but could be anyone affected by the offensive conduct.
4. Unlawful sexual harassment may occur without economic injury to or discharge of the victim.
5. The harasser's conduct must be unwelcome.
6. The sexual harassment can be verbal or it can be physical.

If you or a family member or a friend is the victim of sexual harassment or other employment discrimination it is important that he or she gets the advice of an experienced employment lawyer at once.

Our firm also handles assault cases, police misconduct cases, and various types of wrongful employment practices.

Our lawyers and staff want to help you if you are in need of legal assistance. Just email or telephone us for a free, no obligation, confidential consultation.

For free answers to your legal questions about sexual harassment or employment discrimination, just email us or complete our convenient online contact form.