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On June 6, 2024, the California Supreme Court reversed a court of appeal ruling that found that the University of California erred when its environmental impact report for a student housing project at People’s Park failed to analyze noise impacts from the students who would live there and did not adequately consider alternative sites. Relying on …

You will likely be hearing much about the federal Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) in 2024. Starting on January 1, 2024, the CTA is requiring every “reporting company” to file with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) a beneficial ownership information report (a “CTA Report”) …

Authored by: David Goldman and Miguel Saldaña For decades, California businesses have been subject to both Federal and State laws requiring equal access to persons with disabilities to businesses where products or services are offered to members of the public.  Title III of the Americans With Disabilities Act (“ADA”), a Federal law, and C…

Attorney Todd Kartchner, who serves as our firm’s Chief Privacy Officer here provides five tips for simple ways to implement and improve business cybersecurity protocols: 1.  Use Anti-Virus Protection and Firewalls. This should go without saying in this day and age, but for the sake of caution, it is important to note that cybersecurity measure…

It is well understood that California employers will become liable if they fail to comply with laws and regulations pertaining to the payment of minimum wages, hours and days of work, reimbursement of employment expenses incurred by employees, and the required information on employee payroll statements that includes how wages were calculated and si…

Historically, California employers have been challenged to comply with detailed, and often changing, wage and hour statutes and regulations.  Matters such as determining when and how to provide eligible employees with required rest and meal periods, and how to account for compliance, constantly evolve.  Recently, the legal landscape got a…