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Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP San Francisco Specialty: wage and hour, disability class action litigation for plaintif...
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Arent Fox LLP Los Angeles Specialties: wage and hour class action litigation, labor negotiations ...
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Though the White House postponed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's so-called employer mandate until 2015, many ...
Perspective
Some arbitration agreements still vulnerable in California
By Ben Armisteadn
If employers wish to arbitrate claims arising out of their employees' employment, they are well advised to ensure their arbitr...
Labor/Employment
'Me too' evidence cannot save a futile discrimination claim
By Ben Armisteadn
A recent decision is a welcome limitation on the admissibility of "me too" evidence in light of the history of California cour...
U.S. customs recently updated the required documentation for showing employees are authorized to work in the U.S. - and penalt...
Perspective
What DOMA, Prop. 8 rulings mean for businesses with employees in California
By Ben Armisteadn
For California employers with California employees, the answer is easy. But what if an employee moves to the Texas office? By ...
The integration of our private and work-related information on one device is a reality - a reality that poses challenges for e...
The state Supreme Court is currently considering under what circumstances a franchisor can be held vicariously liable for the ...
Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP welcomed back a former colleague to its public and environmental law practice group after he ...
Environmental
Judge tentatively sides with food industry in baby food hazard case
By Fiona Smith
An Alameda County judge has tentatively sided with the food industry in a case in which the makers of products such as baby fo...
Law Practice
Allen Matkins lawyers split off and form San Diego boutique
By Alexandra Schwappach
A handful of attorneys left Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP to form their own commercial real estate boutiq...
The Howrey LLP estate resolved unsettled business claims with Dickstein Shapiro LLP, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC a...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit says no private right to sue banks under foreclosure law
By John Roemer
The federal Protecting Tenants at Foreclosure Act, a 2009 effort to ease the pain of the housing bust, does not give individua...
At a hearing last week, U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright made no secret that he was fed up with attorney John Steele of Pren...
Law Practice
Sidley Austin expands Palo Alto office with clean tech partner
By David Ruiz
Sidley Austin LLP welcomed Marc E. Gottschalk to the firm's Palo Alto office from the legal department of Proterra, a company ...
Discipline
Berkeley defense lawyer faces 2-year suspension for document smuggling
By Don Debenedictisn
A State Bar Court judge has recommended a Berkeley criminal defense lawyer be suspended from practice for two years for smuggl...