The Law Offices of Stephen M. Murphy

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Stephen M. Murphy Law Firm Overview - San Francisco Bay Area

Stephen M. Murphy is known as a top plaintiff employment attorney in San Francisco. Our law firm takes cases with legal fees on a contingency basis in the Bay Area and throughout California.

Founded in San Francisco in 1999, the Law Offices of Stephen M. Murphy has established an impressive track record representing employees in family medical leave(FMLA), age, racial and gender discrimination, sexual harassment, wage and hour, class action and wrongful termination cases. We have succesfully prosecuted cases against such employers as Bank of America, Federal Express, Levitz Furniture, SBC, the United States Postal Service, and Bechtel, obtaining favorable results for employees through negotiation, mediation, and trial.

Our attorneys bring over 25 years of litigation experience to the firm. Our emphasis is on providing ethical, effective representation to employees while controlling costs to ensure that our clients receive the maximum benefit from settlements and jury awards.

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Stephen M. Murphy, Attorney

Mr. Murphy is certified as a civil trial advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates. A graduate of the University of San Francisco School of Law, he worked as law clerk to the justices of the New Hampshire Superior Court, where one of his supervising judges was current United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter. He began practicing law in 1982 with Bianco, Brandi & Jones and opened his own firm in 1999.

A respected and effective litigator, Mr. Murphy has been selected as a Super Lawyer, one of the Best Lawyers in America, and one of the top plaintiff's employment attorneys in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Recorder newspaper.

Mr. Murphy has handled numerous Family Medical Leave and disability discrimination cases and maintains an extensive site on employee leave issues at sick-leave.com.. He is also the author of the mystery novel Alibi, Their Word is Law: Bestselling Lawyer-Novelists Talk About Their Craft, a book of interviews with prominent writers in the genre, and What If Holden Caulfield Went to Law School: Selected Legal Fiction and Nonfiction. All his books are available online at www.LawyersWriting.com.

In 1999 he founded the Barristers Club's Day in Court program, designed to bring middle school students to court to watch real trials.

Mr. Murphy serves as an officer of the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association and editor-in-chief of its Trial Lawyer magazine.

Jeremy Graham, Associate Attorney

Mr. Graham has been an associate of the firm since April of 2006. A graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, in 2004 he received his J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Hastings College of the Law. While at Hastings Mr. Graham served on the Hastings Law Journal and externed at the California Court of Appeal, First District.

Before coming to the Law Offices of Stephen M. Murphy, Mr. Graham worked at Rudy, Exelrod and Zieff, L.L.P. representing plaintiffs in both individual and class action employment cases.