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Attorney
Joseph Hekmat started the Hekmat Law Group to obtain justice for individuals. He handles wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, and unpaid wage actions as well as consumer protection matters.
Joseph Hekmat represents employees who have been wronged in the workplace. His practice includes matters spanning all areas of employee rights law, including wrongful termination, discrimination, harassment, and unpaid wage claims, as well as consumer class actions. Joseph has been recognized as a “Super Lawyer” every year since 2020, and prior to that as “Rising Star” in the Southern California edition of the annual Super Lawyer directory.
Before founding the Hekmat Law Group, Joseph served as General Counsel for Evergreen Financial Holdings, LLC, and its affiliated portfolio of companies in the health care and commercial real estate industries, where a significant portion of his practice was devoted to employment litigation. He began his career as an associate in the litigation department of then named Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs, Howard & Shapiro, LLP. Joseph graduated with honors from Loyola Law School, where he served as Chief Articles Editor of the International and Comparative Law Review and extern to the Honorable Ronald S.W. Lew of the United States District Court, Central District of California. He earned his B.A., with honors, from the University of California, Irvine.
Joseph is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) and serves on the legal committee for the Jewish National Fund.
He is admitted to practice in California and New York.
