On May 27, 2021, the San Francisco County Superior Court certified a class of over 10,800 women who were employed by Google, LLC, in California since September 14, 2013, in certain jobs covered by the lawsuit. The court found that plaintiffs have presented common evidence from which a finder of fact could reasonably find that (1) […]
Altshuler Berzon LLP is pleased to welcome its 2021 Summer Associates: Amanda Le (University of California, Irvine School of Law), Andrew Toney-Noland (Stanford Law School), Edgar Melgar (Yale Law School), Isaac Green (Harvard Law School), Michael Migiel-Schwartz (Harvard Law School), Nina Oishi (Yale Law School), and Simon Jacobs (University of Chicago Law School). The law […]
Altshuler Berzon LLP is launching a Law Fellow Program and is inviting applications for fellowships that will begin in the fall of 2021. The firm welcomes applicants who are recent law school graduates interested in a one-year position that will involve them in the diverse practice of the firm. Fellows can expect to work on […]
On April 28, 2021, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in California Trucking Association v. Bonta, which reversed a preliminary injunction preventing the State of California from enforcing Assembly Bill 5’s “ABC” test against trucking companies. Under that test, a worker is presumed to be an employee unless the employer can establish all three of […]
On April 28, 2021, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in SEIU Local 87 v. NLRB (Preferred Building Services), reversing a decision by the National Labor Relations Board that had upheld the firings of workers who had protested sexual harassment and other intolerable working conditions outside an office tower. The underlying […]