Daniel Velton
(408) 505-7892
dvelton@vzfirm.com
Prior to founding Velton · Zegelman, Daniel Velton was an attorney with the largest labor and employment law firm in the world. Using that experience, he brings valuable knowledge and perspective to his current practice, in which he exclusively represents employees in individual and class action discrimination, wrongful termination, harassment, wage and hour, and other employment cases.
- Fluent in Russian
- Basic French and Spanish
- B.A., University of California, Berkeley
- J.D., Santa Clara University School of Law
Areas of Focus
- Age Discrimination
- Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- California Family Rights Act (CFRA)
- Disability Discrimination
- Emotional Distress
- Employee Rights
- Equal Pay Act (EPA)
- Ethnic/National Origin Discrimination
- Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA)
- Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA)
- Pregnancy Discrimination
- Qui Tam
- Race Discrimination
- Racial Harassment
- Religious Discrimination
- Retaliation
- Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act
- Severance Negotiations
- Sex Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Uniformed Services Employment & Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
- Wage & Hour Laws
- Whistleblower
- Wrongful Termination
Representative Matters
- Wage and hour class action (workers allegedly misclassified as exempt) involving hundreds of individuals
- Employees entitled to thousands of hours in unpaid overtime
- Meal and rest break penalty payments recovered for multiple workers
- Sexual harassment lawsuit based on groping of and sexual comments directed toward female employee
- Pregnancy discrimination plaintiff terminated shortly after taking maternity leave
- Disability discrimination plaintiff alleging employer's failure to accommodate disability
- Whistleblower case in which employee terminated for complaining about unlawful employer practices
- Employer retaliation for refusing to engage in unlawful activity
- National origin discrimination lawsuit
- Race discrimination plaintiff who alleged disparate pay and treatment
- Gender discrimination involving female employees who received less average compensation than male counterparts
- Case involving employees misclassified as independent contractors
- Executive severance negotiations
Professional Associations
- Legal Aid Society - Workers' Rights Clinic (Volunteer Supervising Attorney)
- Eastern European Bar Association (Founder, Board of Governors)
- Santa Clara County Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section (Member, Executive Committee)
- California Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
- San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association (Member)