An Experienced Team
Javier Rivera Carbone is an AWI certified workplace investigator and an active employment attorney concentrating exclusively on employment law litigation and independent workplace investigations. Javier had represented Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and individuals in all areas of employment and labor law.
He has handled sophisticated matters in court, including class action lawsuits, appellate matters and civil trials. He has also reached out-of-court resolution in many cases and has negotiated transition packages for departing executives. Javier is also routinely retained by other attorneys and business owners to conduct neutral and objective investigations of alleged employment law violations, including sexual harassment and wage & hour issues. Javier has extensive experience in providing preventive counseling and training to employers, as well as significant experience in dealing with labor unions. He is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Before founding Rivera Carbone, P.C. and Veritas Workplace Investigation, in Orange County, California, Javier was Of Counsel in the labor and employment law department of a leading national employment law firm – Fisher & Phillips LLP. Prior to arriving in California, he was Income Partner in the labor and employment law department of the largest Hispanic owned law firm in the world – McConnell Valdes LLC, in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where he resided and practiced law for 10 years. Javier left large law firm practice to create a firm focused solely on employment law problem solving.
George H. Bean has been an employment attorney, and before that an employment paralegal, for over fifteen years and has been conducting workplace investigations for over five years. He has taken multiple cases all the way to jury verdict and has argued a number of times in front of the Courts of Appeal in California.
George brings his deep knowledge of litigation to his workplace investigations. Knowing how a legal dispute ends can be very informative as to how it should be treated at the beginning. As a workplace investigator, George brings this experience and ability to evaluate the legitimacy of complaints made in the workplace. That is, how would a jury see this? Is there danger to the employer? George is comfortable telling an employer the truth about their situation, and will not be just a rubber stamp for the company’s point of view.
Being a workplace investigator attorney is George’s second career. Before passing the California Bar in 2015, he was the owner operator of a small restaurant business, including establishing a wholesale food production business that serviced nearly all of the school districts and hospitals in Orange County. George has a BA in Philosophy from the University of San Diego and is an average chess player, an overly committed dog owner, an enthusiastic cook, and a markedly amateur singer songwriter.