by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Apr 13, 2011
Occasionally this “employee rights” lawyer will change roles to defend an employer. Why would I do that? For several reasons. First, it pays. Secondly, it informs: I learn to see the world more clearly through the eyes of the employer, and to come out...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Apr 12, 2011
As chair of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the Orange County Bar Association, I have the privilege of serving our membership by arranging for topic speakers at each monthly meeting. This month, the topic was “The Crown Jewel of Your Case” and...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Mar 30, 2011
They all want back pay from Wal-Mart because of gender discrimination. The big issue for the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court during this week’s oral argument in (Tues. 3/29/11) in the appeal of Wal-Mart v. Dukes was “due process.” Will...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Mar 21, 2011
It seems my karma of the last 30 years is to be tracked by a series of lawyer jokes. There is a deep cultural angst about lawyers: we love them, hate them, hold them in high regard, and villify them. We don’t seem neutral about them.I confess, I am not...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Mar 19, 2011
Paper, boxes of it, volumes of words strung with alleged significance, page after page–this is the “fat” of litigation. I believe that in the legal world, brevity is like gold, valuable, and seldom seen.I frankly (since I am always...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Mar 18, 2011
Federal and state statutes and case law generally anticipate that a workplace investigation is an important employer tool that will prevent discrimination and harassment, and even result in some discipline of offenders. I’m sorry to say I have a different...
