Adam Fiss
Adam J. Fiss is a shareholder in Littler's San Jose office. He represents employers in a variety of labor and employment matters, including defending clients in lawsuits and administrative proceedings that involve wrongful termination, employment discrimination, trade secret and unfair competition, wage and hour, and harassment. Adam also, as a core member of Littler’s Leaves of Absence and Disability Accommodation Practice Group, has extensive experience assisting clients with the design and administration of leave of absence, mandatory paid sick leave laws throughout the United States, and accommodation policies and procedures; counseling employers regarding day-to-day leave and accommodation issues; training management and HR staff in these areas; and defending claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and related state laws. As co-chair of Littler’s Workplace Violence Prevention Practice Group, Adam has wide-ranging experience, litigating, advising and problem solving with clients on issues relating to concerns of potential workplace violence issues. This includes creating and implementing, policies, trainings, and plans to identify and be prepared for a potential workplace violence situation and counseling clients relating to actual threats of violence or violence impacting the workplace.
Tamara Freeze
Tamara Freeze is a founding partner of Workplace Justice Advocates, PLC, practicing plaintiff’s side employment law, with a special focus on disability discrimination and failure to accommodate cases. Ms. Freeze is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law and a former employment defense attorney. Ms. Freeze has tried numerous cases to verdict, resulting in multi-million dollar awards, including several disability discrimination and failure to accommodate cases ($1.4 million verdict against the Community Development Commission of Los Angeles for an employee who was terminated after requesting a reasonable accommodation and a $550,000 verdict against a school district for a night custodian where the school failed to engage in interactive process and to accommodate the custodian). In 2017, she obtained a $25 million verdict in a whistleblower retaliation case.
Kevin Hosn
Kevin K. Hosn has worked as a Deputy Attorney General at the California Department of Justice for the past ten years. He represents state agencies in administrative hearings, trial courts, and appellate courts. Prior to joining the California Department of Justice, Kevin worked as a Trial Attorney at the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. Kevin has handled various reasonable accommodation issues during the interactive process phase, through litigation and trial, as well as at the appellate level.