Legal Services & Lawyers

Tamara S. Freeze is highly experienced in labor and employment matters as well as general civil litigation, including contract disputes, intellectual property, and sports and entertainment law. Before opening her own practice, she worked for several big law firms in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Orange County. Ms. Freeze is comfortable litigating cases and representing clients throughout California.

Ms. Freeze has substantial experience representing clients in discrimination and harassment disputes, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, and for unpaid compensation and benefits. Ms. Freeze frequently advises employees on the hiring and termination, the enforcement of company policies and practices, labor-management relations, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, trade secrets, severance negotiations and class action strategy. She has experience vigorously defending employee rights, educating drafting employment and settlement agreements, independently supervising cases, calculating settlement ranges and managing litigation.

As part of her practice, Ms. Freeze represents employees in state and federal courts throughout California, as well as in administrative proceedings, such as EEOC or DFEH. She is familiar with human resources procedures, business programs for employee recruitment, processing, orientation, performance evaluation systems, and employee counseling.

Tamara Freeze's Specialties:
Employment and Labor law: discrimination and harassment, wrongful discharge, breach of contract, severance packages, unpaid compensation and benefits, wrongful termination, layoff practices, wage and hour compliance, alternative dispute resolution, international employment law issues, and class action strategy.

MITCHELL REED SUSSMAN, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York in 1973 he graduated from George Washington University with a Bachelor of Business Administration. He came to the west coast upon graduation from GW and in 1976 he graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.

Listed in “Who’s Who In America,” he has practiced real estate, business and entertainment law in Beverly Hills, Newport Beach and Palm Springs, California since 1977.

He is a licensed real estate broker and former president of both the Orange County and Riverside County Bankruptcy sections and is a member of the California State Bar's litigation section.

In 1984, he co-founded Raven Productions, Inc a television production company producing shows for PBS, ESPN, Travel Channel, Fox Sports Net and many others.

In 1999 he created PSTV Partners, LLC and engineered the acquisition of an FCC broadcast license for that company for the purpose of building the first television station dedicated to broadcasting an over the air PBS signal to Palm Springs and the desert resorts. Known as KVCR Desert Cities Public Television the television station owned by his company is seen over the air and on Time Warner cable, channel 9 throughout Coachella Valley.

Today he specializes in real estate, business and entertainment litigation with a long list of business, real estate and entertainment clients.