New rules: Ramirez v. TransUnion

Ninth Circuit requires each class member to have standing for damages, furthering Chamber of Com-merce’s quest to make “no injury” class actions go away

Dan LeBel

From Issue: 2020 June

New life for whistleblower-retaliation claims

Lawson and not McDonnell Douglas now provides the framework for litigating section 1102.5 whistleblower claims

Bryan Schwartz
Cassidy Clark

From Issue: 2022 April

Maximizing emotional-distress damages in employment cases

An expert psychological witness lends credence to claims for emotional distress, in mediation as well as trial

Alexis McKenna

From Issue: 2014 April

Independent contractors, Dynamex and AB-5

New employment law seeks to codify the ruling in Dynamex, other new laws address lactation and ethnic hairstyles

Karine Bohbot and Elizabeth Riles

From Issue: 2020 May

Getting FEHA discrimination cases past summary judgment

Failure-to-accommodate cases are also disability-discrimination cases

Martin I. Aarons

From Issue: 2023 March

Employment-law intakes

Basic questions to ask when a potential employment client calls your office

Ely Grinvald

From Issue: 2023 March

New rights for employees and requirements for employers in 2016

A summary of the most significant and some of the more interesting laws that will impact employees and their employers

Amanda L. Riddle
Jennifer E. McGuire

From Issue: 2016 February

Maximizing your attorneys’ fees recovery in the trial court following a successful FEHA judgment

It’s a process that begins long before the final judgment day

Norman Pine
Scott Tillett

From Issue: 2022 April

Let’s talk politics

An employee’s right to engage in political activity

Sarah Abraham
William C. Jhaveri-Weeks

From Issue: 2024 April

Golden State boundaries

Charting the jurisdictional landscape of California labor and employment laws for remote workers

Viridiana E. Aceves

From Issue: 2024 November

Fifty shades of employment

Personal injury meets course-and-scope-of-employment and independent contractor issues

Craig Peters

From Issue: 2016 February

Employment law and its intersection with whistleblower laws

When employees seek out employment attorneys, any underlying whistleblowing claims ought to be explored

Aelish M. Baig

From Issue: 2013 October