Legal Question in Employment Law in California

I have been recently terminated from my job as a Creative Director of Marketing for a Shopping Center. The shopping center decided to outsource my position as well as another marketing position. I have a stellar work history with the company with great reviews. The day following my termination while I was out running errands the Vice-President of the company left me a voicemail at 3pm and 3:30 unable to locate files and applications on my work computer, when I got home around 4pm I checked my email to find an email from him stating he stopped payment on my severance check, and contacted the Sheriffs Dept. A sheriff''s deputy paid me a visit at around 5:30 that evening. Then just after 5:30 I received a phone call from one of the store owners at the shopping center saying that the Vice-President send out a mass email to all the merchants accusing me of theft. She forwarded the email to me. So, I have a few issues, the first one: from the time the Vice-President initially attempted to contact me to the time payment was stopped on my severance check, a sheriff showed up at my house and the nasty email went out was a time span of only 2.5 hours, he did not give me time to respond. The second and biggest concern of mine is that I own 4 monthly magazines and a small graphic design firm, and many of these merchants who received his mass email are previous, current and potential advertisers of mine, I stand to loose thousands of dollars in revenue because of his defamatory email. My company also designs websites for several of these merchants as well as direct mail pieces. I feel he purposely sent out this email to damage my company especially since the shopping center produces a monthly publication which is in direct competition of advertising revenue with my magazines. I apologize for the long explanation, (there is actually several other details that I've not mentioned) but in speaking to a friend who is an attorney he feels I have a case for libel and I could receive treble damages regarding my severance pay, his partner considered representing me but since his wife was employed at one time with the same shopping center there would be a possibility it would be thrown out of court. So, are there any attorneys who would consider taking my case?

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