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Operating a business with employees in the modern world has become quite a complicated endeavor for California employers. Along with ensuring that their business remains successful, employers must also learn to manage any legal complaints leveraged by their workers....
Many successful businesses have to worry about the potential for a lawsuit by a current or former employee damaging both their profit margin and their reputation within the community in which they operate.Harassment and discrimination lawsuits could do a lot of damage...
It is important for employers to be well aware of all of the rights that their employees hold at every stage in their business relationship. This starts during that initial interview and runs all the way until an employee retires, potentially covering decades of the...
Whether you are just starting your business or have operated for some time, chances are you have entered into agreements with one or more parties. Some business owners adopt a "cookie-cutter" approach to business transactional work involving contracts. For example,...
Your company's reputation is important. It may matter far more than you realize. Any threat to that reputation is a threat to the company itself.In fact, some experts have gone so far as to call reputation a form of currency. You think long and hard about how you...
Defects that arise during and after construction result in many problems for all involved parties. When people hear about a construction defect, they often feel bad for the property owner, but general contractors also suffer when problems like this occur. Further,...
In two recent cases, courts considered the actions of private parties in determining that public entities were not liable for inverse condemnation or dangerous conditions of public property. In City of Oroville v. Superior Court, 2019 Cal. LEXIS 5950, the court...
Managing shareholder Brian Bergman has been named the Co-Chair of the Litigation Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. The Beverly Hills Bar Association is nationally recognized as a leading bar association, and as an active, activist group. The BHBA develops...
Managing shareholder, Brian Bergman, is the Programs Chair for the Beverly Hills Bar Association Litigation Section and hosted a recent presentation at the BHBA. The program "WHAT IS A WRIT PETITION AND HOW TO GET ONE GRANTED" was held on Wednesday August 14,...
Without eminent domain, the United States would not look as it does today. No highway system would connect us across the country, and our national parks might be smaller. Our cities would certainly not look the same.However, as essential as the use of eminent domain...