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Employment Practices Liability Symposium

Nation’s Leading Insurance Underwriting Society Invites Andrew H. Friedman To Speak At Its Employment Practices Liability Symposium

February 13, 2023 – Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (“PLUS”) has invited Andrew H. Friedman to its 2023 Annual Employment Practices Liability Symposium.

EPL Sessions February 2023

The Symposium will take place on February 13, 2013, in New York City. PLUS has asked Mr. Friedman to speak on a panel entitled “EPLI Trends from Coast to Coast” and the organization has described the panel topics as: “Hear from renowned plaintiffs’ counsel from New York and California on the latest trends in cases they are bringing and planning to bring in two of the most difficult jurisdictions and from a top defense attorney on defense counsels’ efforts to prepare their clients to for the next big thing.” To learn more about this Symposium and/or to register, please visit – https://plusweb.org/Events/Event-Info/sessionaltcd/EPL2023.

2023-01-09T07:42:30-08:00December 8th, 2022|Andrew Friedman|Comments Off on Employment Practices Liability Symposium
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Advanced Mediation – Practical Skills for Experienced Litigators

CLA Advanced Mediation Practical Skills for Experienced Employment Litigators.

Andrew H. Friedman to Speak at the California Lawyers Association’s Advanced Mediation Conference

December 1 & 2, 2022 – Helmer Friedman LLP is pleased to announce that the California Lawyers Association, Labor and Employment Law Section, has asked Andrew H. Friedman to speak at the organizations Advanced Mediation Conference: Practical Skills for Experienced Employment Litigators. Mr. Friedman will be speaking alongside many other plaintiff employment attorneys, defense employment attorneys, and mediators. The deadline to register for the Early Bird discounted price of just $75.00 is November 24, 2022. To learn more about this program and/or to register, please visit – https://pheedloop.com/2022AdvancedMediation/site/home/.

2022-11-01T08:45:28-08:00October 20th, 2022|Andrew Friedman, speaking engagements|Comments Off on Advanced Mediation – Practical Skills for Experienced Litigators
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Helmer Friedman LLP Welcomes New Attorney Erin Kelly

September 9, 2022 – Erin Kelly Attorney Beverly Hills Helmer Friedman LLP.Helmer Friedman LLP announces with great pleasure: that Erin Kelly, previously employed by the law office of Steven J. Kaplan, has joined them. Ms. Kelly, who received her B.A. in Peace and Conflict Studies from U.C. Berkeley, represents employees in all aspects of employment-related litigation, including wage and hour violation claims.

Ms. Kelly is admitted to practice in California State and the District of Columbia. While in law school, Ms. Kelly worked in the Civil Advocacy Clinic, where she represented employees in wage and hour law claims.

2023-02-08T08:59:32-08:00September 9th, 2022|employment law|Comments Off on Helmer Friedman LLP Welcomes New Attorney Erin Kelly
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Superior Court Boot Camp

Andrew H. Friedman to Speak at The Pincus 17th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp

October 7, 2022 – Andrew H. Friedman will speak at the 17th Annual Superior Court Boot Camp, presented by Pincus Professional Education. Mr. Friedman will be speaking alongside multiple Superior Court judges, including Hon. Lawrence H. Cho (Los Angeles Superior Court), Hon. Harold W. Hopp (Riverside Superior Court), Hon. Kira L. Klatchko (Riverside Superior Court) and Hon. Laura A. Seigle (Los Angeles Superior Court). Also speaking with Mr. Friedman will be many preeminent plaintiff and defendant employment attorneys and other litigators, including John L. Barber (Lewis Brisbois), Virginia Milstead (Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP), Kimberly A. Valentine (Valentine Law Group), John P. Blumberg (Blumberg Law Corporation), Damian D. Capozzola (The Law Offices of Damian D. Capozzola), Angel James Horacek (Law Offices of Angel J. Horacek, P.C.).

This practical, two-part webinar will cover a wide range of litigation topics – from pleadings, discovery, depositions, and motions to your CMC and pre-trial obligations and juries. Attendees will also get advice regarding trial, preserving the record, judgments, and post-trial motions.

The program organizer, Pincus Pro Ed, has created a 10% off “Friend of the Speaker” discount for speakers to pass along. This discount code is FOSSUPCT10. Feel free to pass along the program information and discount to any colleagues who may be interested in the program. They provide additional discounts for law firms sending four or more attorneys. To register for the event or to pre-order the recording, please visit the Pincus website – https://new.pincusproed.com/product/16th-annual-superior-court-boot-camp-the-nuts-and-bolts-ca-two-part-webinar/.

For more information about this program, please visit https://new.pincusproed.com/product/superior-court-boot-camp-17th-annual-the-nuts-and-bolts-ca/.

Please note that IN-PERSON attendance in LOS ANGELES is now SOLD OUT. However, you can still sign up for online attendance. If you’d like to be on the WAIT LIST for IN-PERSON in LOS ANGELES, please put a note in the Comments section when you register, or send Pincus an email at info@pincusproed.com or call us at (877) 858-3848.

Here is an overview of what will be covered.

The Early Stuff: Case Themes and Strategies, Advice on submitting Complaints & Answers; Demurrers and Motions to strike, CMCs

  • Complaints and Answers
  • Rules and timelines
  • How to do it
  • Strategies
  • Common mistakes
  • Demurrers/Motions to Strike
  • Demurrers v. Answers
  • Case Management Conference / Scheduling Your Case

 

Discovery

  • Regular Discovery in state court
  • Types in state court
  • Motions that occur during Discovery, including motions for sanctions
  • Overlooked Deadlines – if needed
  • Procedural Issues that are often missed/common mistakes
  • Strategies and choices
  • For Settlements
  • For Trial
  • Superior Court v. Federal Court
  • RFPs
  • E-Discovery
  • Latest State Rules, changes in rules
  • Strategies
  • Cost Saving Measures
  • Mistakes not to make
  • Important state cases
  • Motions to Compel

 

Depositions in State Court

  • Rules Strategies & Timelines for state court
  • State v. Federal rule differences and strategy differences
  • Deciding whom to depose
  • Taking good depositions – Mistakes not to make
  • Making effective use of depositions at trial in state court
  • Practical examples, discussion of anything in handout
  • Q&A

 

Pre-trial settlement procedures and advice

  • Final Status Conference
  • Trial Outline
  • Motions to Exclude Witnesses from Courtroom
  • Motions in Limine
  • Additional Motions
  • Ex parte applications
  • Continuances
  • Reconsideration
  • Motions for Sanctions
  • Motions to Exclude Witnesses from Courtroom
  • 998 offers

 

Pre-Trial Tasks, Selecting and Dealing with Your Jury

  • Preserving the record for appeal – mistakes not to make/what to make sure you do
  • Post-Trial Motions
  • Motion for a JNOV
  • Motion for a New Trial
  • Attorneys’ Fees
  • Determining “Prevailing Party” under CCP Sec. 998, 1032 & 1033
  • Filing Notice of Appeal
  • Judgments
  • Financial awards
  • Injunctive relief
  • Requirements for entry in jury trials per CCP664
  • How to enforce
2023-08-11T11:34:13-08:00August 3rd, 2022|Andrew Friedman, employment law, speaking engagements|Comments Off on Superior Court Boot Camp
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The Art Of The Deposition

The Rutter Group Invites Andrew H. Friedman To Speak About “The Art Of The Deposition”

On September 16, 2022, The Rutter Group will feature Andrew H. Friedman in a webinar entitled “The Art of the Deposition Winning the Trial Before Trial.” The Rutter Group describes the webinar as:

Contrary to popular opinion, trials generally turn not on what happens in the courtroom but on which party elicits the most useful deposition testimony. Formulating clear, probing deposition questions and genuinely listening to the deponent’s answers are critical to eliciting testimony that can be used later, sometimes much later, to achieve a successful outcome in the case. Presented by experienced trial counsel from both the plaintiff’s and the defendant’s side of the aisle, this “how to” program includes an actual mock deposition demonstration highlighting the techniques discussed during the program. Invaluable for both experienced and novice attorneys alike, this program will equip you with new ideas and helpful strategies for taking superior depositions and will give you the confidence in knowing you can!

Speaking with Mr. Friedman will be one of his former colleagues, Michael D. Stein of Tisdale & Nicholson, LLP. Mr. Stein is widely known for obtaining one of the largest jury verdicts in San Bernardino Superior Court history, $9.9 million dollars, on behalf of a young child severely shaken by a former daycare center operator. The case and verdict were featured in the National Law Journal, Lawyers Weekly U.S.A., and The Los Angeles Daily Journal and prompted the consideration of legislation to require California private daycare centers to maintain liability insurance.

Previously, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Stein worked together at Bryan Cave LLP (now known as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP).

For more information about the webinar or to register, please visit https://www.theruttergroup.com/index.cfm?p=36&lp=299#presenters.

2023-07-26T07:43:25-08:00August 3rd, 2022|Andrew Friedman, speaking engagements|Comments Off on The Art Of The Deposition
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Employment Law Treatise Added to Case Text AI-Powered Database

Helmer Friedman LLP’s Two-Volume Employment Law Treatise Added To Nation’s Leading Electronic Legal Research Company’s Searchable Database

June 10, 2022 – Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that Casetext, the Nation’s leading provider of A.I.-powered legal research technology, has partnered with James Publishing, the Nation’s leading provider of practical law books, and will feature Andrew H. Friedman’s two-volume, 2,000-page employment law treatise – Litigating Employment Law Discrimination Cases (James Publishing 2005 – 2024) – in its electronic database. As part of the rollout of this new partnership, Valerie McConnell, Casetext’s Vice-President of User Success, released a video interview of Mr. Friedman about his book.

I am very excited that Casetext is collaborating with James Publishing to bring an even larger audience to my book. My Contributing Authors and I are hard at work on the 2023 edition of Litigating Employment Law Discrimination Cases and we couldn’t be more pleased that our treatise will now be available online and easily searchable with Casetext’s proprietary A.I.-powered legal research technology.

Commenting about the addition of his book to Casetext’s legal database, Mr. Friedman said “I am very excited that Casetext is collaborating with James Publishing to bring an even larger audience to my book. My Contributing Authors and I are hard at work on the 2023 edition of Litigating Employment Law Discrimination Cases and we couldn’t be more pleased that our treatise will now be available online and easily searchable with Casetext’s proprietary A.I.-powered legal research technology.”

 

About James Publishing

James Publishing is a leading affordable legal publisher. Since 1981, James Publishing has provided practical law books that are loaded with time-saving motions and pleadings, client letters, step-by-step procedural checklists, pattern arguments, model questions, and practice tips.
 
For more information, visit www.jamespublishing.com.

About Casetext

Casetext builds the most advanced A.I. legal technology available on the market today. Launched in 2013, Casetext provides lawyers with innovative tools to streamline critical elements of legal practice. Casetext offers powerful technology for legal research, brief drafting, knowledge management, discovery, and more. Over 10,000 law firms—including 40% of Am Law 200 firms—rely on Casetext to improve the efficiency of their law practice.
 
For more information, visit Casetext.com.

2024-11-20T14:45:57-08:00June 17th, 2022|employment law|Comments Off on Employment Law Treatise Added to Case Text AI-Powered Database
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Labor Employment Law Conference

Employment Law Year in Review

July 14-15, 2022 – 38th Annual Meeting of the Labor and Employment Law Section.Andrew Friedman speaks at 38th Annual Labor & Employement Law Conference.

Andrew Friedman and Anthony J. Oncidi will team up once again in this fast-paced presentation covering the top employment law cases from the past year, with an emphasis on the cases of greatest utility to employment law practitioners.

 

Register for 38th Annual Meeting – Labor and Employment Law.

2022-06-16T08:28:45-08:00June 16th, 2022|Andrew Friedman, Labor & Employment Law, speaking engagements|Comments Off on Labor Employment Law Conference
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Helmer Friedman LLP Welcomes New Attorney

April 15, 2022 – Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that Ryan Handley, formerly of Levin & Nalbandyan LLP, has joined the law firm. Mr. Handley, who received his J.D. from Southwestern Law School and his B.A. from the University of Washington (where he majored in International Political and Economic Studies with a focus on Asia), represents employees in all aspects of employment-related litigation, including discrimination and whistleblowing.

Ryan Handley Lawyer Helmer Friedman LLP
Mr. Hanley is admitted to practice in California State and Federal Courts and is an active member of the Asian Pacific American Bar Association and the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance. Prior to law school, Mr. Handley was an English teacher in South Korea, where he pushed for his school district to end asbestos construction while employees were on site.

2022-09-26T08:58:19-08:00April 13th, 2022|employment law|Comments Off on Helmer Friedman LLP Welcomes New Attorney
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Andrew H. Friedman and EEOC Attorney Taylor Markey Co-Author Article For The Advocate Magazine

Article written by Andrew Friedman and Taylor Markey.

May 1, 2022 – Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that the May 2022 Advocate Magazine, a journal of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles, contains an article written by Helmer Friedman LLP attorney Andrew H. Friedman and former Helmer Friedman LLP attorney Taylor Markey, who is now an attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission – The best and worst employment developments of 2021. The article can be viewed here.

2024-09-18T12:14:07-08:00April 13th, 2022|Andrew Friedman, employment law publications, Taylor Markey|Comments Off on Andrew H. Friedman and EEOC Attorney Taylor Markey Co-Author Article For The Advocate Magazine
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Forced Arbitration Clauses Take Greatest Toll on Marginalized Groups

Sexual harassment and assault victims advocates Helmer Friedman LLP.

The Center for Progressive Reform Releases A Report Revealing That Forced Arbitration Clauses in Corporate Contracts Take Greatest Toll on Historically Marginalized Groups

February 1, 2022, (Washington D.C.) – Forced arbitration is a biased process that allows corporate wrongdoers to not only get away with serious violations of the Nation’s civil rights and employment laws but to also hide that misconduct from the courts and the public eye. It allows serial sexual harassers and abusers to thrive while precluding their victims from obtaining justice. It is well past time for our laws to be amended to prohibit forced arbitration. Today, the Center for Progressive Reform released a report confirming what plaintiff employment attorneys across America already know – forced arbitration clauses favor corporations over workers and consumers because arbitrators have financial motives to rule in favor of corporations, don’t have to follow the rules of evidence, explain their decisions in writing, or apply the law consistently, and they often can’t be overruled by a higher court. Indeed, individuals seldom prevail in forced arbitration, and people of color, women, low-income people and other marginalized groups pay the highest price of contracts that deprive workers and consumers of justice in the courts. Commenting about this report, Helmer Friedman LLP founding partner, Andrew H. Friedman, stated: “Forced arbitration is a biased process that allows corporate wrongdoers to not only get away with serious violations of the Nation’s civil rights and employment laws but to also hide that misconduct from the courts and the public eye. It allows serial sexual harassers and abusers to thrive while precluding their victims from obtaining justice. It is well past time for our laws to be amended to prohibit forced arbitration.”
For a complete copy of this report, visit the website of the Center for Progressive Reform at https://cpr-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/private-courts-biased-outcomes-forced-arbitration-rpt-0222.pdf.

2022-07-12T07:18:06-08:00February 12th, 2022|sexual harassment|Comments Off on Forced Arbitration Clauses Take Greatest Toll on Marginalized Groups
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