July 2019 E-Newsletter
Civil Rights and Personal Injury and General Practice Law Firm, Dedicated to Social Justice
The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a well-respected litigation firm with an office in Hempstead, Long Island. Our focus is primarily in the area of civil rights, voting rights, employment discrimination, police misconduct, personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death and criminal law. However, the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington is a full- service law firm handling matters in numerous areas of law and providing a wide range of services from contract formation to litigation and trial practice.
RECENT VERDICTS AND SETTLEMENTS
$8.43 million - Excessive force, false imprisonment, unlawful entry, trespass and punitive damages by police officers who tased a man suffering from bipolar depression
$7.75 million- Civil Rights and wrongful death action brought by the family of deceased
$4.7 million- Repeated verbal and physical assaults on Yemeni-American employee, while supervisor failed to protect employee and discipline the assailant
$1.277 million- Race based attack and serious injury by violent acts against Plaintiffs, who were lured to an isolated warehouse
$2.8 million- Wrongful death, products liability case involving a tow motor accident at a sewage treatment plant
AT THE FIRM
The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington Welcomes the Summer Associates Class of 2019
Each year for the past 24 years, The Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington has hired law students as part of its Summer Associate Program. This program was instituted by Mr. Brewington and his wife, the Rev. Adrienne Brewington, to provide opportunities for law students who had an interest in the area of Civil Rights and to encourage and foster students who have a desire to explore and experience what it is like to work in a fast-paced, small law firm that is involved in high-profile Civil Rights work and Litigation. The positions are highly competitive and normally start the first week of June and continue into the early part of August.
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Second Circuit Court of Appeals Says Walmart Must Answer for Workplace Discrimination Claims
In reversing the ruling of the lower court, and following a successful argument before the Circuit panel by the Law Offices of Frederick K. Brewington, on July 11, 2019, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has given the green light for an important discrimination lawsuit to proceed against Walmart.
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IN THE NEWS
Hempstead School Board Declares Superintendent Position Vacated
July 25, 2019 | FiOS1 News
Hempstead School Board Declares Superintendent's Post Vacant
July 25, 2019 | News12
District Calls Chief Post Vacant
July 25, 2019 | Newsday
NY Pols OK Increased Monitoring of Hempstead Schools
June 21, 2019 | Long Island Press
Brewington To Laity: Know Your Mission
June 7, 2019 | The Vision
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