Scott Newar: A Fearless “Private Attorney General”
Our Nation and our State’s employment discrimination and retaliation laws—such as Title VII, the Equal Pay Act, the ADA, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), the Family Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), the False Claims Act, and the Texas Whistleblower Act—empower and incentivize private lawyers to enforce these laws.
These discrimination and retaliation laws do so through attorney fee-shifting provisions that authorize victims of discrimination to recover their “reasonable” attorney’s fees and costs if they prevail in the litigation.
For 35 years, Scott Newar has served as a “private attorney general” enforcing this Nation and this State’s civil rights laws on behalf of victims of discrimination and retaliation.
In that capacity, Newar has won important victories for:
A female banker who was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars less in salary and bonuses than her male counterparts
Numerous oil patch workers who were deprived of tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime compensation
A private hospital employee who was terminated for reporting and opposing Medicare fraud
A deputy Harris County Constable who was sexually harassed by her supervisor
A Houston IRS Agent who was subjected to religious discrimination in the workplace
Black and Hispanic fracking workers who were deprived of overtime compensation and subjected to race discrimination
Over the next 4 years, “private attorneys general”—such as Newar—will be increasingly called upon to enforce this Nation and Texas’ discrimination and retaliation laws, as federal and state government attorneys are either terminated or curtailed from doing so.
As he has done for 35 years, Scott Newar is ready, willing, and able to fight and win these important fights on behalf of America’s workers.