Legal Team
Ossai Miazad
Ossai Miazad is a leading authority on USERRA law. She is Co-Editor-in-Chief of “The Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act,” a treatise published by the American Bar Association’s Section of Labor and Employment Law. She is the Co-Chair of Outten & Golden’s Discrimination and Retaliation Practice Group, and is Co-Chair of the Subcommittee on USERRA of ABA Labor and Employment Law Section.
Peter Romer-Friedman
Peter Romer-Friedman has litigated and settled three of the four largest class actions in the history of USERRA. He also litigated and settled one of the most high profile USERRA lawsuits brought by an Air Force reservist against the House Benghazi Committee, and won the first appellate victory interpreting pension rights under USERRA. He is currently litigating USERRA class actions against L-3 Technologies, Federal Express Corp., Washington State, American Airlines’ pension plan, and Southwest Airlines. Mr. Romer-Friedman previously served as the primary advisor to the Senate Labor Committee on USERRA and other veterans’ employment issues as labor counsel to then-Chairman Edward M. Kennedy. He routinely advises the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on USERRA, teaches continuing legal education courses on USERRA, clerked for Judge Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, has served as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, and graduated from Columbia Law School.
Rachel Williams Dempsey
Rachel Williams Dempsey is an associate at Outten & Golden LLP in San Francisco, and a member of the firm’s Class Action Practice Group.
Pamela Disney
Pamela Disney is currently litigating a class action lawsuit against Federal Express Corp. and FedEx’s pension and retirement plans for failing to make the proper pension or retirement contributions to thousands of employees who served in the Armed Forces. Ms. Disney has multiple family members who have served in the Armed Forces, including as reservists.
Michael N. Litrownik
Michael Litrownik is currently litigating a USERRA class action against L-3 Communications Corp. in which the Plaintiffs allege that L-3, the 10th largest defense contractor in America, discriminated against reservists in hiring pilots.
Nina Martinez
Nina Martinez is currently litigating a USERRA class action against L-3 Communications Corp. in which the Plaintiffs allege that L-3, the 10th largest defense contractor in America, discriminated against reservists in hiring pilots.
Michael J. Scimone
Michael Scimone is currently litigating a class action lawsuit against Federal Express Corp. and FedEx’s pension and retirement plans for failing to make the proper pension or retirement contributions to thousands of employees who served in the Armed Forces.