The Law Office of Richard T. Seymour, P.L.L.C.
DC Labor and Employment Attorneys
"We represent the dispossessed of the Earth, and executives recently shown
the door.
We also act as neutral investigators, mediators, and arbitrators."
“Let justice roll down like a mighty river . . . .”
- Adapted from Amos 5:24
“Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth.”
- Daniel Webster, 1845
"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere...."
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail,
1963
“They’re always talking about civil rights laws
with teeth in them. What I want to know is, who’s going
to chew?”
- New Orleans civil rights attorney, 1968
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"Lawyer of the Year"
Metropolitan Washington
Employment Lawyers
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Helping people get justice seems to us a pretty worthwhile line of work.
Our part of that work is civil rights, employment rights, and other civil
litigation. If you’re interested in these topics, this web site
is for you.
Richard Seymour's explanation of his approach: There were no lawyers
in my family. I decided to go to law school because I was inspired by
the freedom riders and lunch-counter demonstrators of the early 1960s,
who were beaten and jailed just for sitting on the wrong side of the racially
segregated color line. It reminded me of my mother’s telling me
the difficulties she had getting a job because she was a woman. And it
reminded me of my grandmother’s tales of looking for work as a young
woman and seeing employer after employer with signs in their windows,
saying “No Irish need apply.”
Browse to your heart’s content. We’ve prepared background
information for you, and have arranged to have information from other
sources on this web site. Richard Seymour has spent more than three and
a half decades representing people with claims against big companies and
government agencies, and Adele Rapport has spent more than two and a half
decades in this field. This site answers the questions we have most frequently
asked.
If you are looking for an attorney to represent you, the information
on this web site may help you make your choice. The clients in whom we
are most interested are:
- Partners, managers, administrators, and others who need to negotiate
reasonable compensation or severance or non-competition agreements.
- Whistleblowers (Sarbanes-Oxley, health & safety, and others).
- Former employees who are sued over unreasonable non-competition or
“non-compete” agreements.
- Reasonable people who have serious problems in the workplace.
- Reasonable employees who are affected by the same problems that affect
a large number of other employees. Even if individual damages are small,
a case may make economic sense if enough other people have been harmed.
Few employees would go to the expense of an individual lawsuit if he
or she were cheated of two dollars’ pay a day. The expense of
the suit would be far greater than the lost pay. If the same problem
affected a thousand employees and had gone on for three years, however,
the possible recovery is clearly great enough to justify going forward.
We keep using the word “reasonable” because the likelihood
of winning or getting a good settlement is much higher when the client
is reasonable, and reasonable people work best with an attorney and are
likelier to follow sound legal advice. Judges and juries like reasonable
people.
If you are outside the District of Columbia and have a matter involving
State law, it will ordinarily be necessary to associate an attorney licensed
to practice in the State in question.
We mediate disputes, investigate misconduct, consult on cases on a fee or
contingency basis, and will co-counsel with other firms. Give us a call.
We arbitrate disputes: Richard Seymour is listed as an Arbitrator on the
American Arbitration Association's Commercial Arbitrator Panel and its
Employment Panel. To arrange for him to arbitrate a dispute, obtain your
opposing counsel's agreement, and contact the AAA by calling one of the
offices shown on its web site, www.adr.org, and state that you are
requesting him by name with the consent of both sides. You can also jointly make the
request to him directly, and he will forward it to the AAA.
Richard Seymour is rated “AV” by Martindale-Hubbell, the
leading American and international lawyers’ directory and rating
service. This is the highest possible rating, and is explained by Martindale-Hubbell
as follows:
- AV Peer Review Rating - shows that a lawyer has
reached the height of professional excellence. He or she has usually
practiced law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels
of skill and integrity.
Important Information From The Association of
Trial Lawyers of America
 
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