Commissioned Employees May Be Entitled To Overtime Under Peabody v. Time Warner
Ms. Peabody was a short-time employee who caused Time Warner a long-term headache! (Peabody v. Time Warner Cable, Inc. 2014 Cal. LEXIS 4755.) She sold [...]
Gubernatorial Candidate Poses As Homeless Man…in Fresno!
Neel Kashkari, California's Republican candidate for governor spent a week living as a homeless person in Fresno, in search of a job to demonstrate the difficulty many [...]
Shelly Wins Right to Sell the Clippers . . . and how an obscure provision in the Probate Code made it unappealable
Just the other day, a Probate Court judge approved Shelly Sterling's request to confirm that Donald Sterling was properly removed as Trustee of the family [...]
Misclassifying Independent Contractors
My law partner, Bob Fishman, reminds us frequently, "the devil is in the details." This is what we call a "Bob-ism." We have collected many [...]
About Those Missing IRS Emails…
Although I've never had an instance of the IRS losing mine or a client's emails, I have had a run in with the California Board [...]
Putting Your Head in the Sand Does Not Eliminate the Problem
We often compare a person who refuses to face problems to an ostrich that sticks its head in the sand. Ostriches don't really bury their heads [...]