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By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
Marc Santos and Geraldo Zaffa are two firefighters who filed a lawsuit against the Milpitas Fire Department for alleged age discrimination. The two men were placed on a list […]
Posted May 16, 2013 in Staff Infection
By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
Julie Gilman Veronese sued Lucasfilm Ltd. in 2009 after she was hired—and then fired—as an assistant to the estate manager at George Lucas’s San Anselmo estate. She claimed she […]
Posted May 13, 2013 in Staff Infection
By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
Remember all that hubbub about the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) requiring employers to display a poster advising employees of their right to organize? (If not, you can read […]
Posted May 8, 2013 in Staff Infection
By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
A group of former employees of a popular vitamin and nutritional supplement store filed a lawsuit against their employer for allegedly failing to pay them for overtime hours. The […]
Posted May 2, 2013 in Staff Infection
No family is perfect. And while all litigation is emotional, our experience is that almost all trust and estate litigation is driven by underlying emotional disputes among family members. And death, like divorce, can open the […]
Posted May 1, 2013 in Estatements
By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
We have all lived in a highly regulated, pro-employee environment for years. Moreover, there is no hiding it; employers are bombarded by news about the hazards of having employees […]
Posted April 29, 2013 in Staff Infection
By Kelly O. Scott, Esq., Head of Employment Law Department
Generations X, Y and Z: educated, independent, entitled and media savvy. When motivated, these workers can be very valuable. Retaining them, however, can be a problem. Conventional wisdom is […]
Posted April 24, 2013 in Staff Infection
QUESTION: I have been asked to be a receiver to help collect a judgment. The judgment debtor has intellectual property assets. Plaintiff’s counsel has asked me how hard it will be to get me appointed and […]
Posted April 24, 2013 in Ask the Receiver®
As the budget crisis has unfolded, the tax community has been predicting that the IRS would get aggressive about imposing penalties in order to raise more revenue. And we are starting to see just that happen.[…]
Posted April 16, 2013 in Estatements, Taxing Matters
Karina B. Sterman, Esq., Partner, Employment Law Department
If you’ve been following the news, or our considerably more pithy reportage, the original plan of the both maligned and anticipated (depending on who you are) Affordable Care Act required the […]
Posted April 4, 2013 in Staff Infection
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