Here's a candidate for one of the less glitzy and front-page-laden areas of law in California (something like celebrity divorce might come to mind for some of our readers seeking to conjure up a quick example of legal-based news that routinely scores as a media...
Year: 2016
Acute small- and medium-sized business concern: taxation
If you're a business principal with a recent start-up enterprise or an already ongoing and provably viable small- to medium-sized commercial enterprise in California or elsewhere, you're undoubtedly fixated on many things. Like profit, obviously. And expansion. And...
Ban the Box- Los Angeles’ New Job Requirements
The "ban the box " campaign is a national push to prohibit employers from asking prospective employees about their criminal records during the early stages of the hiring process. Twelve states, as well as 70 cities and counties, have implemented "ban the box"...
A growing business risk and concern: cybersecurity threats
In today's fast and complex business world, companies of all types and sizes routinely confront bracing challenges across a wide universe of considerations. Legal risk in the corporate realm is a constant and outsized concern. And it is a potential across virtually...
FLSA “Final Rule” and It’s Injunction
On November 22, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted a motion to enjoin the implementation of the Depart of Labor's (DOL) new overtime rule, which was scheduled to go into effect on December 1st, 2016. Under this new rule or...
Startup considerations: IP strategy an important focus
If you're lucky enough to be part of a smart team of ambitious and enterprising California entrepreneurs, there's probably a lot on your plate at the startup you're either envisioning or actively developing. Things are probably in a swirl, with product ideas and lines...
Professors accuse California university of breach of contract
Contracts are supposed to be legally binding agreements. What is a college professor to do, however, when his or her employer backs out on their half of the agreement? It is just such a situation that professors of San Francisco State University in California are...
Business litigation: What Los Angeles boards need to know
Recent news articles have brought Wells Fargo's Board of Directors under scrutiny. The company is involved in ongoing business litigation due to claims that Wells Fargo management coerced employees into the creation of thousands of fake accounts through unrealistic...
U.S. Department of Labor addresses employment retaliation
Two ranking members of the U.S. Department of Labor recently discussed workplace retaliation against employees who file wage-related complaints, sending this strong and unequivocal message to employers in California and elsewhere across the country: Don't do it. In...
Non-compete agreements: striking a fair balance
Say that you're a high-ranking executive in a cutting-edge department of a profitable enterprise, tasked with developing new products and processes and, concomitantly, safeguarding your employer's vitally important trade secrets. Should you be able to just terminate...
