October 2022 As is the case each year, the California legislature passed a flurry of new employment laws at the end of the...

  August 2022   California notoriously has some of the most stringent and complex employment laws in the nation. As such,

  August 2022 Many employers elect to pay salespersons commission-based wages. Employers can benefit by this arrangement as the

June 2022 There is often confusion as to when an insurance company must pay for an insured’s choice of counsel. In a number of...

  June 2022 Under California Labor Code § 226.7, and the Industrial Welfare Commission (“IWC”) wage orders, employers must

May 2022 The opinion in Kim v. TWA Construction, Inc. (2022 Cal. App. LEXIS 412) issued by the Court of Appeal of California Sixth...

  California local public agencies and their contractors should take note of a recent appellate decision pertaining to late...

March 2022 The pandemic certainly did not slow down California’s Legislature and appellate courts. The following five appellate...

January 2022 Aas v. Superior Court (2000) 24 Cal. 4th 627 – economic loss rule Amelco Electric v. City of Thousand Oaks ( (2002)...

  November 2021 Employment arbitration agreements continue to be a hot button issue in California. We recently highlighted a...