Attorney Rene Potter is Ready to Fight For You.

Rene Potter, head attorney at The Law Office of Rene Potter, has devoted her career to defending sexual assault survivors and employees. Having graduated Magna Cum Laude from California Western School of Law, she enriched her professional acumen through an externship with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California. Rene focuses her career on sexual assault both in and out of employment and employment matters involving sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation and wrongful termination. She deeply engages on every case, and her highest priority is getting her clients justice.

Leading Sexual Assault and Employment Rights Attorney in California.

Areas of Litigation:

Sexual assault survivors can bring civil and criminal cases for sexual assault. We take on the civil case and work in tandem with any ongoing criminal case. California law defines sexual assault as non-consensual sexual contact or conduct. It includes offenses ranging from unwanted sexual touch to forced sexual acts and rape. We take sexual assault cases against employers and non-employers.

Employers can be held liable for engaging in or failing to address sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment can be verbal, written, physical, visual, or even directed at someone else. No one should have to deal with sexual harassment when they go to work. 

The Law Office of Rene Potter Takes the Following Types of Employment Cases:

Discrimination occurs in the workplace when an employee experiences an adverse employment action (AEA) based on their membership in a protected class of persons under the U.S. and California Constitutions. An AEA is defined as an act reasonably likely to impair an employee’s job performance or prospects for advances. It does not include minor or trivial actions that do no more than anger or upset an employee. Examples of an AEA include unjustified write-ups, more oversight than people outside of the protected class, unequal pay, failure to promote, a hostile work environment, termination, and more.

It is illegal for an employer to harass an employee because they are a member of a protected class of persons, or to fail to protect an employee from such harassment. Harassment is defined as unwelcomed behavior and policies that are based on an employee's gender/sex, race, disability, age, etc.

California is an “at will” state, which means an employer can fire an employee for any reason or for no reason at all - even if they simply do not like them. However, they cannot fire an employee because they are a member of a protected class. In other words, it is illegal for an employer to fire an employee for any reason connected to their gender/sex, race/color, disability, age, national origin, pregnancy/breastfeeding, or sexual orientation. It is also illegal to terminate an employee in retaliation for exercising their rights, such as reporting or refusing to participate in illegal activity, reporting safety violations, filing a complaint, etc.

In California, there are different types of retaliation in the workplace. Generally, retaliation occurs when an employer subjects an employee to an adverse employment action because the employee asserted their rights, e.g. reported illegal activity to an outside agency (whistleblowing), requested an accommodation, resisted discrimination, etc. The protected activity must be causally linked to the adverse employment action (e.g. you requested an accommodation for your disability and were terminated soon thereafter).

Remedies

Remedies can include lost wages, lost benefits, emotional distress/suffering, attorneys fees/costs, punitive damages, and more. 

Are you ready to assert your rights?

Contact The Law Office of Rene Potter to request your free case evaluation.

Client Centered Approach for Sexual Assault and Employment Matters 

Achieving Justice using a No Success, No Fee Structure. 

Experienced Legal Counsel

At The Law Office of Rene Potter, we specialize in litigating sexual assault and employment matters. 

No Success, No Fee.

No fees are charged until and unless we achieve a successful resolution in your case.

Your Victory is Our Victory

We select our cases carefully, keeping our caseload at a level which never dilutes the personal experience we provide to our clients. We take our clients’ cases personally, and fight aggressively to not only obtain you monetary compensation, but vindication.

Dedicated Legal Team

At The Law Office of Rene Potter, our experienced team fights tirelessly for your rights. Our own experiences as employees and with loved ones who have experienced sexual assault equip us with a deep understanding and empathy for your situation, fueling our passion to litigate your case aggressively and to secure you a victory.

Are you ready to assert your rights?

Contact The Law Office of Rene Potter to request your free case evaluation.

Voices of Victory

Chronicles of Client Gratification and Victorious Case Results

"When I lost my job, I was really desperate because I knew that I was a victim of wrongful termination. I asked for help. It was a relief for me because I have a family that I need to feed, and I have bills to pay. It's totally life-changing to me because of their [Attorney Rene Potter’s] help, you know, I was able to start a new life. Me and my wife were able to move on. I've got a better job right now. The way they [The Law Office of Rene Potter] handle their clients, they treat you as a family. Not just like a client, but as a family. 

Client, Anonymous

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