Firm News

We are thrilled to welcome Erin Cole to the HAE team!  Erin joins us as an associate attorney representing victims of sexual assault in civil litigation and employees in claims involving wrongful termination, discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour violations at work. Prior to joining HAE, Erin worked as both a civil and criminal attorney helping victims of sexual assault, employment discrimination, and civil rights violations, as well as representing defendants in criminal cases.

A graduate of University of San Diego School of Law, where she received the Pro Bono Service Recognition Award and the Congresswoman Lynn Schenk Scholarship, Erin has served as a judicial extern to Chief Judge Larry A. Burns of the United States District Court, Southern District of California, as well as to Hon. Andrew G. Schopler, Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of California. Visit Erin Cole’s Bio to learn more.

The San Diego Union Tribune has reported on Haeggquist & Eck’s trial victory in a sexual harassment and failure to prevent sexual harassment lawsuit against the County of San Diego’s Sheriff’s Department and former Assistant Sheriff Richard Miller. Read about how and why sexual harassment, no matter the form or how egregious, should be reported and taken seriously by employers: https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/story/2021-05-08/staffer-awarded-60k-in-sexual-harassment-allegations-targeting-former-assistant-sheriff

We’re thrilled to announce that Haeggquist & Eck attorneys Alreen Haeggquist, Amber Eck, and Aaron Olsen have been selected to the 2021 California Super Lawyers list. Each year, no more than five percent of the lawyers statewide are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers to receive this honor.

Alreen Haeggquist and Amber Eck were each also selected for inclusion in the Top 25 Women San Diego Super Lawyers list and the Top 50 San Diego Super Lawyers list.

Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive, and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.

Please join us in congratulating Alreen, Amber and Aaron for this incredible honor! (And check out our ad in this year’s San Diego Super Lawyers magazine)

Three attorneys at San Diego employment and consumer rights firm Haeggquist & Eck have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America_© 2021.

• Partner Alreen Heggquist was selected by her peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America_© 2021 in the field of Consumer Protection Law;
• Partner Amber Eck was included in the Best Lawyers in America_© 2021 for her work in Securities Litigation; and
• Associate Ian Pike received a 2021 Best Lawyers: Ones To Watch recognition for Labor and Employment Law – Employee.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers_® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 108,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received over 13 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. For the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America_©, 9.4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 67,000 leading lawyers being included in the new edition. Lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed.

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