Justin is the lead trial attorney and founder of Miracle Mile Law Group. Since launching Miracle Mile Law, Justin has worked passionately as an avid defender of employee rights. Justin’s practice includes a full range of employment disputes, including sexual harassment, wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, failure to accommodate, whistleblower retaliation and many more.
Justin has been recognized in the National Trial Lawyer’s “Top 40 under 40” and repeatedly selected as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers™ from 2021-2024. He has also been named by Lawyers of Distinction in 2022 and 2033 for his excellence in employment law and was named by Expertise Magazine as one of the “Best Employment Lawyers in Los Angeles” from 2019 through 2022, and one of the “Best Employment Lawyers in Santa Monica” in 2021 and 2022. Justin currently holds a 10.0 (Superb) rating on Avvo.com.
Justin has also been named by various other legal periodicals, including The Daily Journal, for prevailing on a motion to disqualify his opposing counsel from defending an employer in a whistleblower case due to attorney misconduct. Justin has also been published in Law360 Magazine and Lexis Practice Advisor for his article regarding the Admissibility of “Me Too” Evidence.
Most recently, Justin obtained a trial verdict in Orange County Superior Court on behalf of a pregnant employee who was wrongfully terminated from her job as a legal assistant, which resulted in a total judgment of $1,146,311.63.
Helping employees who’ve been a victim is my calling, and I will fight to make
things right for you.
Justin is a member of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA) and the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA). He is admitted to practice before all of the courts of the State of California, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and the United States District Court for the Central, Southern, Northern and Eastern Districts of California.
Justin Hanassab grew up in Los Angeles, California and graduated high school in 2008. Justin received his undergraduate degree from the University of California, San Diego in 2013, and graduated from UC Irvine Law School in 2017. During law school, Justin won several awards for finishing top of his class in a number of different advanced legal courses. During this time, Justin interned at the office of the Federal Public Defender for the U.S. District Court in the Central District of California. Due to his advanced legal writing and advocacy skills, Justin also served as a teacher’s assistant for the legal writing course and finished as a top finalist in the UC Irvine Moot Court competition.
Justin spent his summers working at different civil litigation law firms, including the renowned Hadsell Stormer Renick & Dai, where he represented deprived employees and others in both employment and civil rights cases. Towards the end of law school, Justin wrote and argued an appellate brief before the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on behalf of a pro se prisoner client who was denied his due process right to present witnesses at his parole revocation hearing.
After graduating from law school, Justin accepted a competitive offer at one of the largest law firms in the world where he defended numerous Fortune 500 companies and was published by Lexis Practice Advisor (a well-respected magazine that guides lawyers through the complex and convoluted employment laws) regarding the admissibility of evidence in certain workplace situations pertaining to sexual harassment. Justin’s previous experience as a defense attorney allows him to bring a unique and valuable perspective to each case. In other words, Justin understands how companies think, and his insight brings you the best chance of getting real results.
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