LAWYER FOR WORK ISSUES

Contingency fee lawyers will assist employees if they have been fired from their job, are owed wages (bonuses, commissions, overtime, meal breaks, prevailing wage), or were the victims of sexual harassment or a work injury. Work issues about unfair writeups are not for a contingency fee lawyer. Personality disputes are also not issues for the legal system. The list of potential legal problems a lawyer for work issues can assist in is much smaller than the list they do not assist in. Remember, a lawyer's power is through the use of the court system. The law has not placed the court system there for every potential problem in life. The other thing to understand is employee lawyers working on a contingency cannot answer hypothetical legal questions. Although they might, sometimes, find it fun or intellectually challenging this is the use of their professional judgment during work hours. 

Look, everybody has a different take on what is appropriate in work. Cases where somebody gets fired for doing something they think is appropriate, but the employer does not are not wrongful termination. However, sexual identification is sort of like the below low rider. It is illegal, by statute, to fire somebody due to their sexual identification.