Beverly Hills · All of California

Fired, pushed out, or not paid what you earned?

Most people call me a few days after something happened at work, and what they want first is a straight answer about whether the law is on their side.

I'm Cyrus Batchan. I'm an employment lawyer in Beverly Hills and I work with people across California who've been fired for a reason the law doesn't allow, treated differently because of who they are, or not paid for hours they actually worked. I also take personal injury cases, most of them after a car accident.

The first conversation is free, and if you don't have a case I'll tell you that on the call rather than string you along.

Call (424) 222-9787Tell me what happened

  • Freefirst consultation
  • No feeunless you win
  • You speak to menot an intake line
  • Cal. Bar 287341admitted 2012

What I handle

Wrongful termination and retaliationYou reported something, took leave you were entitled to, or refused to do something you thought was illegal, and then you were out.Read moreDiscrimination and harassmentTreated worse because of your race, age, disability, pregnancy, sex, religion or where you're from. Or kept in a job where harassment was somebody's idea of normal.Read moreUnpaid overtime and wage claimsOvertime that never showed up on the check, breaks you didn't get, a final paycheck that never came, or a job title used to get around paying you properly.Read moreCar accidents and personal injurySomeone else's driving hurt you, and now their insurer is being difficult about it. Also motorcycle, pedestrian, rideshare and premises injuries.Read more

If we don't win, you don't pay

You pay nothing unless money is recovered for you. Case costs come out of the recovery rather than out of your pocket, so there's nothing to find up front and nothing owed if the case doesn't work. All of it is set out in writing before you sign anything.

The first call costs nothing either way, and there's no obligation at the end of it.

You know how many hours you worked. You know what landed in your account. The gap isn’t a matter of opinion.Unpaid wages

How your case is handled

You call, or you send the form and I call you back. Tell me what happened in whatever order it comes out. Ten minutes is usually enough for me to know what I'm looking at.

Then I'll tell you what I think. Whether you have a claim, how long you've got to bring it, what it would take to prove, and what I've seen cases like yours actually do. If the answer is that you don't have one, you'll hear that too.

You'll be dealing with me throughout. Not an intake service, not a paralegal you've never spoken to. For most employment cases that's the part that ends up mattering, because these cases turn on details that get lost when they're passed around.

Deadlines and filing dates matter

Every one of these claims has a deadline, and the clock usually starts the day the thing happened rather than the day you decide to do something about it. Some of them are short. If you worked for a city, a county or the state, they're shorter still, and people miss those without ever knowing they existed.

Once a deadline passes, the claim is gone. It doesn't matter how strong it was.

So if it happened months ago, call this week rather than next. Worst case it's a short conversation and you know where you stand.

California employment law, as it changes

Enforcement actions and decisions from the agencies and courts that decide these cases. Every item links to the source that published it.

These are other parties’ matters, reported by the agency or court concerned. They are not results of this office and no outcome in them suggests an outcome in yours.

Free consultation

Tell me what happened

Ten minutes on the phone is usually enough for me to tell you whether you have a case. If you do not, I will say so on the call.

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