Legal Question in Employment Law in California

You need to speak directly with a plaintiff-side employment lawyer about your claim. It is too fact-specific for anyone to be of assistance in a public forum like this. A good lawyer will ask you a large number of follow-up questions to help you figure out if you have a claim, and that cannot be done in a public forum.

Best of luck to you.

Mr. Perry is right. I can, however, give you a general answer to your general question. Employment and Disability law does not protect workers from bad personnel decisions. In the case of a disability discrimination or any other discrimination claim, the biggest hurdle is that you have to have proof that the adverse employment action was done because of the feature of the employee that is given legal protection. Retaining a less experienced employee while laying off a more experienced minority, disabled or older employee, is one indication of possible discrimination, but it is not automatic proof by itself. As you mention, you have two strikes against you - only litigation experience and no partner who would advocate to keep you - both of which would be perfectly legal reasons to let you go and keep someone else if they have to let secretaries go, You would have to find proof that your disability was a factor in the choice of who to fire before you would have a legal claim that would get anywhere in court.

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