Randy Erlewine
Read this listing narrowly. His published representative matters are employment class actions — wage and hour, discrimination, stock options — including a 2023 California Supreme Court decision he names. Personal injury appears in his firm's practice list and in one line of his own summary. The rideshare page is the firm's and names no lawyer.
The bar record
We read Randy Erlewine in the State Bar of California’s licensee search. California publishes more history than most registers: a bar number, a dated status timeline, and administrative as well as disciplinary actions.
California is the one register that tells you it removes its own history. Above the status table, every record carries this: some administrative suspensions are subject to automatic removal from the attorney profile page pursuant to the State Bar’s policy on removal of administrative actions ... administrative suspensions that meet the criteria in that policy would not be displayed below.
Administrative suspensions are not discipline — they follow from things like unpaid fees or missed continuing education. But the sentence still means what it says. A timeline showing nothing is a timeline showing nothing that the State Bar currently displays, and we are not going to write “never suspended” when the register reserves the right to have taken an entry down. No other register on this site says this about itself.
And it does not check what the lawyer tells it. Where a record carries practice areas, the State Bar prints a warning next to them: it does not verify the accuracy of this content and makes no warranties regarding experience or competence in practice areas. Eleven of the twelve lawyers on our San Francisco page left that block empty altogether, so for most of them the register holds a name, a number, an address and a status — and nothing about what they actually do.
What the record shows
Every representative matter he publishes is an employment or class action case: a putative class of over 500,000 job applicants, wage and hour actions, a PAGA action for 10,000 employees, a stock options class action. None is a personal injury matter, though his summary line lists personal injury among his fields.Verified
He names Raines v. U.S. Healthworks Medical Group, 15 Cal.5th 268 (2023), in which he says the California Supreme Court held that agents of employers can be independently liable under the state’s anti-discrimination laws. That is a public decision; we have not read it.Verified
The register records his firm as Phillips Erlewine & Carlin LLP. The firm’s own site trades as Phillips, Erlewine, Given & Carlin LLP — a fourth name the register does not carry.Verified
California publishes no practice-area field unless the lawyer fills it in, and he did not. So the register cannot tell you what he does, either way.Verified
What the firm says
He says he is a partner and co-founder of the firm with over 40 years of experience in employment, class action, commercial, personal injury and insurance litigation.Reported
He says he has been selected as a Northern California Super Lawyer in 2005–2010, 2012–2015 and 2020–2026, and maintains an AV rating.Reported
He says he has achieved multiple seven-figure verdicts and settlements and has defended over 50 cases for national employers including Amtrak, Marriott and Sodexo. We print no figures.Reported
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