Ramin Younessi at the firm's Los Angeles office, Nov. 8, 2021.
Longtime employment litigator Ramin R. Younessi worked many jobs in the San Fernando Valley as a teenager after fleeing religious persecution in Iran to come to the U.S. in 1985. He flipped burgers at McDonalds, pumped gas, painted houses, waited tables and delivered pizza.
"I was robbed at gunpoint delivering pizzas one time, and I had $41 on me," Younessi recalled. "The store manager made me pay for it. He was like, 'Well, yo... (continued)