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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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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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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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Super Lawyers Gregory D. Helmer, Andrew H. Friedman 2022

Super Lawyers Names Gregory D. Helmer and Andrew H. Friedman as 2022 Super Lawyers

Super Lawyers selected 8 consecutive years.
February 1, 2022 – Los Angeles – Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that the lawyer rating service Super Lawyers has named founding partners Gregory D. Helmer and Andrew H. Friedman as 2022 Super Lawyers.

2022-02-09T09:59:07-08:00February 9th, 2022|employment law|Comments Off on Super Lawyers Gregory D. Helmer, Andrew H. Friedman 2022
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Andrew Friedman Named Super Lawyers Top 100 Southern California List

Super Lawyers Names Andrew H. Friedman To Its Top 100 Southern California Lawyers List

February 1, 2022 – Los Angeles – According to the Los Angeles Bar Association, there are over 25,000 lawyers in the Los Angeles area. Helmer Friedman LLP is very pleased to announce that the lawyer rating service Super Lawyers has named Andrew H. Friedman to its list of the Top 100 attorneys in Southern California – https://www.superlawyers.com/california-southern/toplists/top-100-2022-southern-california-super-lawyers/45efb53717e251fff467ff439bbce62eSuperLawyers rated Andrew Friedman Top Employment Lawyer.

2022-06-08T09:28:39-08:00February 1st, 2022|employment law|Comments Off on Andrew Friedman Named Super Lawyers Top 100 Southern California List
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California Labor & Employment Law Review

Andrew H. Friedman Authors Article For The California Labor &  Employment Law Review

January 1, 2022 – Helmer Friedman LLP is proud to announce that the California Labor & Employment Law Review recently published an article co-authored by Andrew H. Friedman, Ramit Mizrahi (of Mizrahi Law, APC in Pasadena), and Tony Onicidi (of Proskauer in Century City). Entitled “Top Employment Law Cases of 2021,” the article highlights the most important employment law cases that were decided in 2021. The article can be read here.

2024-09-18T12:14:33-08:00December 30th, 2021|Andrew Friedman, employment law publications|Comments Off on California Labor & Employment Law Review
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Gregory D. Helmer Named Lawdragon Top 500 Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Attorneys

LAWDRAGON Names Gregory D. Helmer To Its List Of The Nation’s Top 500 Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Attorneys

 

November 16, 2021 – America has tens of thousands of lawyers representing union members, employees, executives. Out of that number, LAWDRAGON, a legal media company publishing online guides to the nation’s leading lawyers, named Gregory D. Helmer of Helmer Friedman LLP to its list of the Nation’s 500 leading plaintiff employment and civil rights attorneys. “I am honored to be included again on LAWDRAGON’s list of the country’s leading plaintiff employment and civil rights lawyers,” Gregory D. Helmer commented upon learning of his inclusion on LAWDRAGON’s list of top employment/civil rights attorneys. To view all of the attorneys on LAWDRAGON’s list, please visit https://www.lawdragon.com/guides/2021-09-22-the-2021-lawdragon-500-leading-plaintiff-employment-civil-rights-lawyers

2021-11-19T16:36:03-08:00November 16th, 2021|employment law|Comments Off on Gregory D. Helmer Named Lawdragon Top 500 Plaintiff Employment & Civil Rights Attorneys
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Mott MacDonald, Daniel Tempelis Sued for Discrimination

Lawsuit Accuses Mott MacDonald Family of Companies and Daniel Tempelis of Age, Disability, Race & National Origin Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and Other Unlawful Behavior

 

Helmer Friedman LLP Represents Former Mott MacDonald Employee Accusing the Mott MacDonald Family of Companies of Illegal Employment Practices

October 26, 2021 (Los Angeles, California) – Andrew H. Friedman of Helmer Friedman LLP, announced today the filing of a lawsuit against the Mott MacDonald Family of companies – Mott MacDonald Holdings, Inc., Mott MacDonald Group, Inc., and Mott MacDonald, Inc.

California law is clear: it is illegal for employers to fire, demote or otherwise retaliate against an employee because of that employee’s age, race or national origin or because that employee complains about unlawful activity.

The lawsuit, Abbas Sizar v. Mott MacDonald Holdings, Inc., Mott MacDonald Group, Inc., and Mott MacDonald, Inc. (Los Angeles Superior Court Case No. 21STCV39343), alleges that the Mott MacDonald defendants, in violation of California’s Fair Employment and Housing Act and Labor Code, discriminated against, harassed, and retaliated against Mr. Sizar, among other claims. More specifically, the lawsuit alleges that the Mott MacDonald defendants fired Mr. Sizar and other non-white and older employees and replaced them with younger less experienced, and less qualified white males.

Speaking about the lawsuit, Mr. Sizar’s attorney, Andrew H. Friedman of Helmer Friedman LLP, stated, “California law is clear: it is illegal for employers to fire, demote or otherwise retaliate against an employee because of that employee’s age, race or national origin or because that employee complains about unlawful activity.”

If you are a witness or have information that would be relevant to the claims of Mr. Sizar or wish to know more about the lawsuit, please contact Andrew H. Friedman (at 310-396-7714 x. 106 or afriedman@helmerfriedman.com).

Helmer Friedman LLP, a Beverly Hills, California-based law firm, is dedicated to assisting people with a wide array of legal problems. The law firm was founded in order to provide its clients (people; not corporations) with the type of world-class legal representation frequently offered by large corporate law firms to large corporations in a more personalized and less formal environment.

Helmer Friedman LLP is a leader in providing clients with legal representation across a wide spectrum of practice areas, including all aspects of employment law, consumer fraud and protection, product liability, false advertising, catastrophic personal injury, and wrongful death, civil rights violations, antitrust, privacy violations, nursing home neglect, and elder abuse, housing violations, defamation, medical malpractice, sexual harassment by doctors and other types of professionals, entertainment and sports representation.

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2024-10-29T10:47:04-08:00October 26th, 2021|Case Update, employment law, Front Page News|Comments Off on Mott MacDonald, Daniel Tempelis Sued for Discrimination
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