July 9, 2015 – Helmer Friedman LLP attorneys Andrew H. Friedman and Priyan Chandraratna will be speaking at the State Bar of California’s Labor and Employment Law Section’s 5th Advanced Wage & Hour Conference and 32nd Labor And Employment Law Section Annual Meeting on July 9 & 10, 2015 at:

JW Marriott LA Live,
900 W Olympic Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Mr. Friedman will be speaking along with Anthony Oncidi (of Proskauer Rose LLP) on a panel entitled The Good, The Bad & The Ugly – A Review of Recent Employment Law Cases.  In this fast-paced discussion, Mr. Friedman and Mr. Oncidi will reprise their annual review of recent employment law cases with an emphasis on those cases of most utility to the employment practitioner whether plaintiff, defense or neutral.

Mr. Chandraratna will be speaking on a panel entitled Employment Discrimination 101. Th­is panel will provide a summary of the key challenges of litigating an employment discrimination case from the plaintiff and defense perspectives, including jurisdiction and venue selection, which causes of action to plead and how to plead them so the complaint sticks, strategies to attack the complaint early on in the litigation and key defenses. Mr. Chandraratna will be speaking with Daphne Anneet (of Burke Williams & Sorensen) and Dolores Leal (of Allred Maroko & Goldberg, Los Angeles).

For more information about the Labor and Employment Law Section’s 5th Advanced Wage & Hour Conference and 32nd Labor And Employment Law Section Annual Meeting, go to http://laborlaw.calbar.ca.gov/Education/AdvancedWageHourConference/Schedule.aspx