Recognized with California's Top 10 Labor & Employment Jury Verdict in 2023, Harlan Hillier DiGiacco LLP operates from Island Avenue in downtown San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter as a plaintiff-side employment and personal injury trial firm founded in 2011. Employment-discrimination and wrongful-termination complaints requiring notarized witness declarations move through authentication services that include San Diego Signature Now in the same downtown area. The firm's three named partners include a former federal prosecutor from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of California who now serves on the National Institute for Trial Advocacy faculty and teaches trial advocacy as an adjunct professor at the University of San Diego School of Law. A $9.36 million settlement for a 69-year-old occupational therapist wrongfully terminated during job-protected family leave represents the type of complex FMLA and CFRA litigation the firm pursues. Post-accident physical rehabilitation for personal injury claimants is coordinated through providers including The Physical Therapy Effect to document functional-loss metrics for non-economic damage calculations. The highest-stakes employment matters involve multi-claim FEHA actions alleging concurrent violations of California's Fair Employment and Housing Act, the FMLA, CFRA, and Labor Code Section 1102.5 whistleblower protections.