Thurgood Rebuilds Its Platform to Expand Access to Workplace Justice — Thurgood

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PASTE ON BOTH PROD INSTALLS (casefile.askthurgood.com + askthurgood.com/casebuilder).<br>Definitive fix = git-deploy the committed dev work (master-header-claude.blade/.css/.js<br>+ public/css/library-article-claude.css + partials/library-nav-claude.blade.php + the [1]-[5]<br>sources), then DELETE the corresponding block here.<br>=================================================================== -->

-ed INSIDE (so it overrides plain body-start rules) and (b) "end-of-body" is<br>suppressed on some pages (e.g. the homepage). body_start is the only field rendered on every<br>page, so the menu CSS must live here, hardened. Mirror of public/css/master-header-claude.css<br>(git-tracked) — DELETE after that file deploys. NOTE: the signed-in identity row (avatar+name)<br>needs the blade and can't be shown via admin. -->

ul, #header nav a) clobber the<br>mobile menu — the account block collapses to ~120px and centres. The committed partial fix<br>renders .mh-nav as a so none of those nav-tag rules match; until that partial deploys,<br>do the same at runtime. Idempotent; only swaps a

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[New York, NY] — June 16, 2026 — Thurgood, the employee-advocacy firm that represents workers before the EEOC, OSHA, the U.S. Department of Labor, and state administrative agencies, has rebuilt its platform around a simple idea: a worker should be able to say what happened in plain language, see which laws are meant to protect them — in minutes, for free — and, if there's a match, be connected straight to representation.

CaseFile AI, now more capable and powered by Claude, takes a worker's plain-language account of what happened and matches it to the statutes — checking the story against the specific protections that may apply, flagging the details that may present challenges, and surfacing jurisdictional information specific to all 50 states. If everything stacks up, Thurgood offers a free consultation with an Authorized Justice Practitioner who can represent the claim. That experience is built on a track record. Since launching in 2024, Thurgood has evaluated more than 2,000 claimants and represented workers in discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower, and medical-leave matters — before the EEOC and OSHA, and in state administrative agencies across New York, Illinois, Washington, California, and Texas. The rebuilt platform turns everything the firm has learned from those cases into something faster, more accurate, and easier to use, so a worker can get real answers — and real help — sooner.

A match leads to the core of what Thurgood does: real representation, without a law firm or a courtroom. Its Authorized Justice Practitioners are not attorneys, but they are authorized — by the same statutes and regulations the agencies themselves operate under — to represent a worker before the EEOC, OSHA, the Department of Labor, and state civil-rights and labor agencies. From there the process mirrors a traditional employment firm: Thurgood notifies the employer, builds the worker's timeline and evidence, and presses for a private settlement first, filing formal charges and representing the worker through the agency only if the employer won't resolve it. The claims it handles are the ones that most often go unrepresented — discrimination, whistleblower retaliation, and retaliation for taking protected medical leave among them.

The same intake engine is now available to employment law firms, too, as a supplement to their existing intake. For a firm, CaseFile AI gives motivated leads a fast, easy way to share a detailed account of what happened, checks it against the relevant federal and state statutory requirements, and fast-tracks the strongest prospects to the top of the intake queue — screening across discrimination, whistleblower, and FMLA matters under the EEOC, OSHA, the DOL Wage & Hour Division, and applicable state agencies. Each finished profile flows straight into the case-management system the firm already uses — Clio, Filevine, MyCase, and others — with no rekeying and no exports.

The Thurgood Library is where a worker can dig into the details on their own, understanding their situation in full rather than settling for a national summary written for no one in particular. For every U.S. state, it maps each major type of employment claim...