<p>John Beers is a partner in the San Francisco office. He exclusively represents employers in employment litigation and employment law counseling. John chaired the Employment Law Group of Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May from 1987 until he left in 1995 with Crosby's Litigation Chair Tim Murphy to open an employment litigation firm. Their firm merged into Fisher & Phillips LLP in 2000. John has successfully litigated hundreds of employment cases for national and international employers, and other smaller clients. John has successfully defended employers in jury trials involving issues of wrongful discharge, age discrimination, sex discrimination, disability discrimination, sexual harassment, retaliation, whistleblower claims and related torts. John serves as an evaluator and as a mediator of employment cases in the Early Neutral Evaluation and mediation components of the ADR Program of the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California. John is "AV" Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has been recognized in Northern California Super Lawyers each year since 2006. He was also listed in The Best Lawyers in America 2010 and 2011.