Devoted Service Relationships.

Founded in the heart of Central California, the Sutton Hatmaker law firm focuses on creating and maintaining Devoted Service Relationships. Together the firm's founding attorneys, Brett Sutton and Susan Hatmaker, bring extensive experience in counseling clients on labor and employment law matters, and aggressively representing clients in litigation of the following types of cases: employment, business and financial services. Both Mr. Sutton and Ms. Hatmaker are dedicated to fostering a more personal and accessible attorney-client relationship.

The firm's attorneys have broad litigation experience in a variety of subject matters. This greater breadth of litigation experience promotes more versatility in litigation strategy and has helped achieve notable results such as:

• Multi-million dollar settlement in a breach of contract action on behalf of a local company.
  
  
• Jury trial defense verdict under difficult circumstances on behalf of a California law firm sued for sexual harassment.
  
  
• Federal court defense trial verdict in an ADA-workplace discrimination case on behalf of a government-funded agency.
  
  
• Summary judgment on behalf of a large agricultural chemical manufacturer based upon federal preemption.
  
  
• Multiple summary judgment motions granted on behalf of employers in workplace discrimination cases.
  
  
• Trial verdict on behalf of a local employer in a union strike case that was eventually upheld by the full National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C. in precedent-setting decision.
  
  
• Jury trial verdict finding fraud and awarding punitive damages in favor of business-purchaser client against seller of business.