The Advocate Magazine Publishes Two Articles Authored By Andrew H. Friedman
May 2019 – The May 2019 Advocate Magazine, a journal of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, contains two articles written by Andrew H. Friedman – The best and worst employment developments of 2018 – Part I & The best and worst employment developments of 2018 – Part II.
Part I provides an overview of the legislative developments that shaped the prior year in employment law while Part II summarizes the most important cases of the last year.
Andrew H. Friedman, Taylor Markey Published – California Labor & Employment Law Review
California Labor & Employment Law Review Publish Article By Andrew H. Friedman and Taylor Markey
May 7, 2019 – The California Labor & Employment Law Review – an official publication of the California Lawyers Association Labor and Employment Law Section – published an article authored by Andrew H. Friedman and Taylor Markey. Entitled “A Refresher on and Thoughts About Unconditional Offers of Reinstatement,” the Friedman/Markey article examines a legal stratagem (the so-called “unconditional offer of reinstatement” doctrine) used by employers who have violated the law to minimize the damages that they have to pay illegally treated employees and explains why the California Supreme Court should reject the doctrine and find that it is at odds with California’s strong public policy of eradicating employment discrimination. Click here to read the article.
Labor & Employment Law Review Published
Helmer Friedman LLP Congratulates Andrew H. Friedman & Taylor Markey on Publication of Law Review Article
California Employment Lawyers Association Publishes Article By Andrew H. Friedman
Los Angeles, CA – The February 2018 issue of the California Employment Lawyers Association’s Bulletin (Vol. 32, No. 2) feature an article by Andrew H. Friedman of Helmer Friedman LLP entitled “Practice Guide: 2018 Employment Law Update: An Overview Of New Legislation And Case Law Trends.” An excerpt of the article follows:
For plaintiff employment law attorneys, the most notable developments of 2017 (and early 2018) are the staggering steps that the administration in Washington has taken to eviscerate the rights of employees. Indeed, immediately upon taking office, the administration launched a wide-ranging crusade to curtail employee protections in virtually every area impacting the employment relationship from wage and hour laws to anti-discrimination laws to occupational health and safety laws and regulations, to the unionized workplace.
Luckily, for those plaintiff employment lawyers living in California, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr., the California State Legislature, and the appellate courts, whether federal or state, have continued to protect and expand employee rights. This is particularly true not just with regard to recent employment-related legislation but also with respect to cases addressing summary judgment where the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal have continued a recent trend of reversing grants of summary judgment favoring employers and, in doing so, explaining why most employment cases should be decided by a jury.
This article will briefly summarize new employment-related legislation and then examine what appears to be a growing recognition by the courts that summary judgment is usually inappropriate in employment cases…
To read the entire article, please go to https://www.cela.org/bulletin/february-2018/practice-guide/
Anti-SLAPP Act Article by Andrew H. Friedman – California Employment Lawyers Association
California Employment Lawyers Association Publishes Article By Andrew H. Friedman On California’s Anti-SLAPP Act
Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles Publishes Article by Andrew H. Friedman
The June 2016 edition of the Advocate Magazine (published by the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles) features an article by Helmer Friedman LLP partner Andrew H. Friedman. The article – “The Best and Worst Employment Cases of 2015” – examines, praises and lambasts those decisions from the U.S. and California Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit and the California Courts of Appeal and federal district courts. A copy of the article can be viewed here.
2015 continued a remarkable recent trend in which the California state and federal courts issued, on an almost daily basis, a deluge of employment decisions. Buried within this torrent of opinions are some cases – the “best” and the “worst” (from the perspective of the plaintiff employee) – about which the employment practitioner must be aware. This article attempts to “cherry-pick” and summarize not just the most important cases from 2015 (and very early 2016) but also those that are of the most utility to the plaintiff employment practitioner. Read more >>
