by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 22, 2010
Oh, that economics, law, and ethics would perfectly align. In such a world, employers would not only know the law, but they would follow it scrupulously. They would not allow the emergence of a corporate structure that encouraged the skipping of rest breaks. Such...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 21, 2010
I remember Walter Lack as a prominent attorney many years ago. His reputation has not flagged, and he remains a “big banana” in the profession, as does his friend and occasional co-counsel Thomas Girardi. Both of these Los Angeles based attorneys sought...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 20, 2010
Introduction: Oh, that it would be so simple as to render an opinion on a non-compete provision for a California California employee, contracting with a California employer, for services rendered in California, for California customers. Such an effort to restrict an...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 16, 2010
Overhill Farms, Inc. v. Nativo Lopez, et al. 2010 DJDAR 18717. Overhill produces frozen food products and employs 1,000 workers in the industrial Southern California city of Vernon (Los Angeles County). The workers are unionized. Overhill received an IRS notice that a...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 13, 2010
St. Agnes, intervene for me before the Court of Appeal to cause, by your four factors, a decision that compels arbitration. Amen. A physician sued for malpractice by his patient would ordinarily want to arbitrate under his own arbitration agreement with the patient....
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Dec 10, 2010
She says she was sexually harassed, but the defendant employer wants to get access to her Facebook postings because it has information that she lists herself as “single” while in truth married. The employer asserts this is enough information to bring into question...