Advanced Mediation Seminar this February in San Francisco and Los Angeles

I am presenting "Advanced Strategies for Mediating the Employment Case" with John Barber of Lewis Brisbois and Andrew Friedman of Helmer Friedman:

February 20, 2013, in San Francisco (register here)
February 27, 2013, in Los Angeles (register here) 

Andrew and John are two top notch litigators who have very interesting and sometimes contradictory insights on the mediation process.  It should be a very entertaining and valuable program.  I hope to see you there. 

Steven G. Pearl Named Super Lawyer in Dispute Resolution and Labor and Employment Law

I am very pleased to announce that I have been named to the California Super Lawyers list in Dispute Resolution and Labor and Employment Law for the third year in a row. Super Lawyers identifies the top attorneys in the state and includes no more than five percent of the state's attorneys on its list. 

Steven G. Pearl to Moderate Webinar -- Ralphs Grocery Co. v. UFCWU Local 8: Statutory Picketing Rights and the First Amendment

The State Bar of California Labor and Employment Law Section presents our first webinar from The Watch List:

Ralphs Grocery Co. v. UFCWU Local 8:

Statutory Picketing Rights and the First Amendment

Wednesday, January 16, 2013 at 12 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. Pacific Time

1.0 Total Participatory MCLE Credits (No Ethics)

On December 27, the California Supreme Court in Ralphs Grocery Co. v. UFCWU Local 8 held that two statutory provisions – Code of Civil Procedure section 527.3 (the Moscone Act) and Labor Code section 1138.1 (section 1138.1) – protect a labor union’s right to picket on private property in front of a grocery store, even though that property does not constitute a public forum under the California Constitution’s liberty of speech provision. The Court further held that the Moscone Act and section 1138.1, which are components of a state statutory system for regulating labor relations and which are modeled on federal law do not run afoul of the federal constitutional prohibition on content discrimination in speech regulations. 

Speakers: 

Paul L. More (counsel for UFCWU, argued before Supreme Court)William J. Emanuel (counsel for amici Employers Group, et al.)

Moderator:   

Steven G. Pearl

Register here or go to www.calbar.org/online-cle and select a subject area.  All Watch List Webinars will be available in our on-line education catalog (listed in alphabetical order) soon after they are aired: http://calbar.inreachce.com. All Watch List Webinars will begin with the words: THE WATCH LIST. 

The Watch List is a series of webinars on the latest cases of interest to California employment attorneys. We will present the Watch List webinars as soon as possible after decisions are published, and our speakers frequently will be the attorneys who argued in the reviewing court. The Watch List webinars will bring you the most up-to-date information from the leading attorneys in California and the nation. 

Advanced Mediation Seminar this February in San Francisco and Los Angeles

I am presenting "Advanced Strategies for Mediating the Employment Case" with John Barber of Lewis Brisbois and Andrew Friedman of Helmer Friedman:

February 20, 2013, in San Francisco (register here)  

February 27, 2013, in Los Angeles (register here) 

I hope to see you there. 

Daily Journal Profiles Steven G. Pearl

On July 6, 2012, The Daily Journal ran a profile of me in its Verdicts and Settlements section. You can read the profile here.  

Thank you to those of you who were kind enough to speak with the Daily Journal reporter on my behalf, and thank you to all of you who have allowed me to be of service in mediation. 

Steven G. Pearl to Speak in Las Vegas

Steven G. Pearl will speak at the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) annual convention this weekend in Las Vegas. Mr. Pearl will address misclassification in wage and hour law, including the standards for determining whether workers are independent contractors or employees and for determining whether workers are exempt from overtime and other wage and hour protections. Mr. Pearl also will address the Supreme Court's recent decision in AT&T Mobility v. Concepcion and its impact in employment law.

Steven G. Pearl Joins ADR Services, Inc., as Mediator

Steven G. Pearl has joined the award-winning panel of neutrals at ADR Services, Inc. He is available immediately to resolve matters throughout California.

Mr. Pearl began his litigation career practicing as a defense attorney at Orrick Herrington before founding his own firm in 1994. As Principal of The Pearl Law Firm, Mr. Pearl has litigated hundreds of individual and class action wage & hour, employment, unfair competition, and consumer protection suits on behalf of plaintiffs. His prolific writings on negotiation, employment, wage & hour, and class action law, along with his successful litigation practice, earned him a place on the 2011 “Super Lawyers” list.

Mr. Pearl began mediating in 2007. He received his mediator training at the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine Law School. He quickly earned a reputation as a tenacious, creative settlement professional, and his scholarly legal knowledge and compassion and respect for both parties at mediation have allowed him to broker settlements in over 100 disputed matters.

“Steve Pearl has the drive, knowledge, and skill set our firm seeks when recruiting new panelists,” explained Lucie Barron, President and founder of ADR Services, Inc. “He is a great addition to our group of employment mediators, and we strongly believe that putting our firm behind his excellent reputation and substantial litigation and mediation experience will further build his ADR practice.”

"I am honored to be selected to join ADR Services," Mr. Pearl said. "I have always appreciated the professionalism and competency of ADR's leadership, staff, and neutrals. I look forward to working with them and continuing to provide my clients with the highest level of mediation services."

Los Angeles County Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section Appoints Steven G. Pearl to Executive Committee

The Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) Labor and Employment Law Section (LEL) has appointed Steven G. Pearl to serve on its Executive Committee. Mr. Pearl now serves on the LEL Executive Committees for both LACBA and the State Bar of California.

LACBA LEL is the nation's premiere organization serving labor and employment law professionals. The Section offers more educational programs and other activities than any other organization of its kind in the country. It provides its more than 1,200 members an opportunity to meet and share ideas informally with employment law practitioners, union and management representatives, government personnel, arbitrators, and academicians.

Steven G. Pearl is a SuperLawyer™ mediator and attorney in Los Angeles, California. He focuses on wage and hour litigation, class actions, and unfair competition litigation.

"California Wage and Hour Law and Litigation" Wins International "Best Publication" Award

California Wage and Hour Law and Litigation, co-authored by Steven G. Pearl, is the "Best Publication" of 2011, according to the Association for Continuing Legal Education (ACLEA), an international organization devoted to improving the performance of CLE professionals. ACLEA's annual awards are highly competitive, and the winning projects represent the highest level of achievement for the staff and authors involved.

California Wage and Hour Law and Litigation is published by California Education of the Bar (CEB), California's leading legal publisher. The treatise is available here.

Steven G. Pearl is a SuperLawyer™ mediator and attorney in Los Angeles, California. He focuses on wage and hour litigation, class actions, and unfair competition litigation.

Pearl Law Firm Associate Leonard H. Sansanowicz Authors Amicus Letters in Lamps Plus Overtime Cases

Pearl Law Firm associate Leonard H. Sansanowicz has authored a pair of amicus curiae letters to the California Supreme Court on behalf of the California Employment Lawyers Association (CELA), asking the Court to or grant review in In re. Lamps Plus Overtime Cases (5/10/11) 195 Cal.App.4th 389.

Lamps Plus, discussed in detail here, addresses a number of issues, Labor Code section 226 and 203 issues and the proper interpretation of California's meal and rest period requirements. This issue is before the California Supreme Court in Brinker v. Superior Court (Hohnbaum).

Mr. Sansanowicz focuses his practice on wage and hour litigation, class actions, and unfair competition. Mr. Sansanowicz earned his law degree at Loyola Law School, where he served as a Senior Articles Editor of the Loyola Law Review of Los Angeles, was a member of the nationally ranked Byrne Trial Advocacy competition team, and served as a board member of the Jewish Students Law Association, La Raza, and the Public Interest Law Foundation.

CELA is a state-wide organization of more than 1,000 California attorneys whose members represent employees in employment law matters. Mr. Sansanowicz serves on CELA's Wage and Hour, Legislative, and Amicus Committees.