Justin Zelikovitz - DCWageLaw

Justin ZelikovitzManaging Attorney

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In 11 years since he founded DCWageLaw, Justin has successfully represented over a thousand clients in wage and hour matters. In the last decade, he has recovered over $15 million for all manner of workers — from dishwashers to executives.

Before founding DCWageLaw, Justin was the Litigation Counsel of the D.C. Employment Justice Center — the premier workers’ rights organization in D.C. And before that, he was an attorney in the general litigation unit of the Maryland Legal Aid Bureau — the largest legal services organization in the region (and, interestingly, the largest law firm in Maryland).

Justin has successfully litigated over 300 cases in state and federal court, most involving wage and hour issues. He has successfully tried cases to verdict in D.C. Superior Court, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Maryland Circuit Court, and the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. Most recently, in April 2024, Justin obtained a verdict for four times the wages that were owed to a teacher who was not paid the full amount pursuant to her employment contract.

Justin started DCWageLaw for one principal reason: Workers who are not being paid properly deserve to have the best possible legal representation. And they deserve a firm that focuses exclusively on wage and hour law.

And for the record: Justin is not as “pugnacious” as the Washington City Paper made him out to be…

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