by Experience, Dedication, Results | 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 Experience, Dedication, Results | 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 Experience, Dedication, Results | 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 Experience, Dedication, Results | 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 Experience, Dedication, Results | 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...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Mar 18, 2011
I communicate weekly with an “accountability partner.” We use a written and mental checklist just to account for how we’re reaching goals or dealing with “issues;” Last week, out of one of these conversations concerning my practice, I...
