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Lippman, Semsker & Salb lawyers are litigating in the federal and state courts every day. It is a signal of the quality and importance of our work that judges and publishers have selected many of the decisions in our case for publication.
Our successes do not always result in a published decision. For example, we reach favorable settlements in many of our cases. And when settlement is not to our client's benefit, we bring our cases to trial.
Following is a selection of cases on which our Firm has worked:
January 2008. Lippman, Semsker & Salb achieves success in an arbitration proceeding. Our client, an eye surgeon, was terminated from her position in violation of the "good cause" provision and in breach of contract. The arbitrator awarded her damages of more than $85,000 and also awarded her fees and costs in excess of $90,000.
October 2007. In a discovery dispute, our Firm protected our client by barring the defendant from obtaining highly intimate photographs and videos of our client which had no purpose in the litigation other than to embarass our client. The decision, which has been officially published, has been widely addressed in the legal media, including discussion on some dozen or more legal blogs.
August 2006. Lippman, Semsker & Salb, LLC has reached a settlement of discrimination claims brought by two computer programmers against a local university. Our clients, who were computer programmers for the university, alleged that younger employees and male employees were given unfair advantage in assignments and promotions and that they were illegally discriminated against when they were selected for layoff in a reduction in force. The settlement was reached to the mutual satisfaction of the parties.
In November 2004, David Halpern and The Washington Center for Internships and Academic Seminars were pleased to announce that they reached an early settlement of Mr. Halpern’s claim of sexual orientation discrimination and retaliation. Mr. Halpern was a Program Supervisor for The Washington Center, where he placed college interns into positions which matched their interest. The details of the case appeared in the media attention that the case garnered, including The Chronicle of Higher Education, the Grand Rapids Press, Roll Call, 365Gay.com, and the Washington Blade [click on media name to view a PDF of the article].
In August 2004, David Ausman reached an early settlement with Georgetown University, after conducting written discovery but no depositions. Mr. Ausman was terminated due to a Reduction in Force in the Information Technology division. He alleged that he and other employees were unfairly selected to be terminated, because African-American, older, and female employees were disproportionately selected for termination. Another claim brought be two other employees who were fired during the RIF, continues against Georgetown, though suit has not yet been filed.
In December 2002 our client Walter Smith was successful in his claim against Raytheon Corp. following a five-day jury trial. A jury awarded him $115,000 after he proved that a top Raytheon manager made significant misrepresentations to him about his new job with the company.
We have extensive trial and pre-trial experience and many successes. Some extraordinary results include our successful trial against the Washington Convention Center in late 2000 based on a claim case of gender discrimination which resulted in damages and attorney's fees totaling $542,000. In another trial, we secured a $545,000 verdict against a credit union based on a claim of Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress.
[Click on selected cases to view a PDF of the court decision]
Reported Cases in the various United States Courts of Appeal include:
- Witcher v. Westphal, 45 Fed.Appx. 300 (4th Cir. 2002)
- Griffin v. Washington Convention Center, 142 F.3d 1308, (D.C.Cir. 1998)
- Rao v. County of Fairfax, Virginia, 108 F.3d 42 (4th Cir. 1997)
- Marshall v. Local 639, IBT, 593 F.2d 1297 (D.C. Cir. 1979)
- Tabor v. Joint Board for Enrollment of Actuaries, 566 F.2d 705 (D.C. Cir. 1977)
- United States v. Tarnopol, 561 F.2d 466 (3rd Cir. 1977)
- Brennan v. Local 639, IBT, 494 F.2d 1092 (D.C. Cir. 1974)
Reported Cases in the various federal district courts include:
- Dickerson et al. v. SecTek, Inc., 238 F.Supp.2d 66 (D.D.C. 2002)
- Sotabinda v. Hotel Lombardy, 173 F.R.D. 3 (D.D.C. 1997)
- Smith v. United Parcel Service, Inc., 947 F.Supp. 190 (D.Md. 1996)
- Van Allen v. Bell Atlantic-Washington, D.C., Inc., 921 F.Supp. 830 (D.D.C. 1996)
- Retirement Fund of Fur Manufacturer Indus. v. Getto & Getto, Inc., 714 F.Supp. 651 (S.D.N.Y. 1989)
- Schmidt v. National Organization for Women, 562 F.Supp. 210 (N.D.Fl. 1983)
Reported Cases in the United States Supreme Court are:
Reported cases in the various state courts include:
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