Practice Areas: Employment & Labor, Business Litigation, Personal Injury; view more
Licensed in California since: 2005
Education: Loyola Law School Los Angeles
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish
Selected to Rising Stars: 2018 Call today:
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Blair & Ramirez LLP
515 S Flower St19th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071 Visit website
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Oscar Ramirez practices employment litigation. His experience includes general commercial business disputes, serious personal injury, and employment-related disputes (wrongful termination, retaliation, harassment, and wage & hour class action cases.)
He has successfully represented both plaintiffs and defendants in federal and state court (bench trials and jury trials), mediations, and arbitrations. His work has resulted in numerous favorable verdicts, judgments, settlements, and arbitration awards. He has experience first chairing state court trials, as well as co-chairing them numerous times, resulting in six-figure and seven-figure judgments. His clients have ranged from individuals and entrepreneurial businesses to international companies. Mr. Ramirez is also a certified mediator. He serves as a volunteer mediator for the Los Angeles Superior Court’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) program.
Prior to co-founding Blair & Ramirez LLP, Mr. Ramirez was managing partner at a boutique employment law firm with an emphasis on trial practice. Prior to that, Mr. Ramirez was a post-graduate funded fellow at Public Counsel (Community Development Project), where he provided transactional corporate assistance to microbusinesses and nonprofit corporations. He has also served as an extern for MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense & Education Fund.)
Mr. Ramirez has appeared as a legal commentator on CNN Latino, Telemundo, and Fox News Latino. In addition to his television exposure, Mr. Ramirez has been asked to speak at Bridgeport legal seminars on employment law topics.
Practice areas
Employment & Labor: Employee, Business Litigation, Personal Injury - General: PlaintiffFocus areas
Employment Law - Employee, Personal Injury - Plaintiff
- 50% Employment & Labor: Employee
- 30% Business Litigation
- 20% Personal Injury - General: Plaintiff
First Admitted: 2005, California
Professional Webpage: https://www.oscarramirezlaw.com/about
- B.A., University of California at Berkeley. , 2001
- Among Mr. Ramirez’s notable achievements, he sued an international oil exploration company on behalf of an employee who complained of same-sex sexual harassment by a supervisor. Through skillful lawyering, after a multi-week trial, Mr. Ramirez helped persuade the jury to return a verdict in favor of his client. The court ultimately awarded $840,000 ($140,000 verdict + $700,000 attorney fee award), affirmed on appeal in 2014., 2014
- Mr. Ramirez secured a jury verdict of over $700,000 for his client in connection with the purchase of a grocery store where the defendants committed fraud by concealing material information concerning the business value., 2014
- Mr. Ramirez successfully represented a former senior vice president of a national bank who was terminated because of his disability. As a consequence of skillful lawyering, Mr. Ramirez expanded protections for all California bank executives and obtained a substantial settlement for his client., 2011
- Mr. Ramirez obtained a near seven-figure settlement for four construction workers who were forced to endure a hostile work environment on account of their race., 2009
- Mr. Ramirez represented a former union president against her union and acting union president for slander. Through skillful lawyering in a bench trial, the court awarded his client a six-figure emotional distress amount on top of a punitive damages finding and award., 2008
- Wage and hour class action settlement against regional employer for $450,000.  Final approval granted., 2017
Selections
- Rising Stars: 2018
