JASON L. OLIVER

Senior Employment Attorney

Jason L. Oliver has spent nearly three decades representing employees in sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation (FEHA and whistleblower), and wrongful termination cases throughout California, beginning in 1998 — long before the “me too” movement came to notoriety. An attorney since 1996, he came to this work with an earlier background in personal injury, products liability, sex abuse, and medical malpractice cases. In 2003, he opened his own practice in Pasadena, where his work narrowed almost exclusively to the plaintiff side of employment law. In 2022, Mr. Oliver became Of Counsel to McNicholas & McNicholas, LLP, mentoring newer attorneys and handling high-profile employment matters, including cases by first responders (police officers and fire personnel) against the City of Los Angeles and the Los Angeles Police Department, Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department and numerous other law enforcement agencies.

Over his years of practice, Mr. Oliver has been part of dozens of trial and arbitration teams in employment cases and has handled writs and appeals in the California Courts of Appeal and the California Supreme Court. He was a member of the litigation, trial, and appellate team in Glick/Garcia v. City of Los Angeles (2026), which following an appeal, resulted in the Court of Appeal reinstating a jury verdict of $13.1 million in favor of their clients. Mr. Oliver also was a member of the appellate team in Gober v. Ralphs Grocery Co. (2006) 137 Cal.App.4th 2004, in which the Court of Appeal addressed the constitutional limits on punitive damages in sexual harassment cases, and he handled the successful appeal in Marcisz v. Movie Theatre Entertainment Group, Inc., where the Court of Appeal reinstated the jury’s compensatory damages award.

Noteworthy Results*

• $14,500,000 – Verdict ($13.1M) and attorney’s fees award ($1.4M); gender discrimination and retaliation, 2026
• $6,500,000 – Settlement; FEHA discrimination, harassment, retaliation, 2026
• $2,650,000 – Settlement; whistleblower retaliation, 2025
• $2,250,000 – Settlement; sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and retaliation, 2023
• $2,200,000 – Settlement; FEHA discrimination, harassment, retaliation, 2026
• $1,750,000  – Settlement; sexual harassment, gender/disability discrimination, and retaliation, 2024
• $1,500,000 – Arbitration award ($225,000) and attorney’s fees award ($1.3M); sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, 2023
• $1,500,000 – Settlement; FEHA discrimination, harassment, retaliation, 2022
• $829,495  – Arbitration award ($47,500) and attorney’s fees award ($781,995); sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation, 2022

* DISCLAIMER: Past results do not guarantee, promise, or predict a similar outcome in any future or current matter, including your potential case. The results described above and/or elsewhere, including but not limited to, https://omegalaw.com, are based on the specific facts and legal circumstances of the individual case(s) discussed. The outcome of any legal matter depends on a variety of factors unique to that case, including but not limited to the specific facts involved, the applicable law, the jurisdiction, the judge, arbitrator, mediator, settlement referee, jury, and the opposing party or counsel. No two cases are alike, and these results are not necessarily representative of the results other clients have obtained or may obtain in the future. Your case may involve different facts and could result in a different outcome. The above results were achieved by one or more attorneys currently or formerly associated with the firm, in some instances working together with outside co-counsel. Figures reflect gross recovery and do not account for attorney’s fees, costs, or expenses deducted from the client’s net recovery. Where a figure includes a separate attorney’s fees award, that amount was awarded to counsel and was not necessarily part of the client’s damages recovery.

Professional Involvement

Mr. Oliver is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), the National Employment Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice, Consumer Attorneys of California (CAOC), the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA), the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), the Pasadena Bar Association, and the Employment Law and Litigation Sections of the California Lawyers Association. He has been a speaker on numerous panels related to employment law and trials, including panels at CELA’s annual conventions on remedies in employment law and on proving punitive damages at trial, programs related to harassment and discrimination sponsored by Women in Animation and IATSE Local 879, and a Southwestern University School of Law Inn of St. Ives program on judicial attitudes toward employment claims. He has also lectured at Glendale Community College on harassment and human resources issues and at Pasadena High School on careers in law