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Employment Law
Fighting Back: The Changing Landscape Of Workplace Harassment Everyone knows that it has happened for decades, but the landscape has changed over the past year. From the spotlight that the #MeToo movement has shown on the issue to the increasing number of accusations and lawsuits,sexual harassment is finally making national headlines. The impact reaches across […]
Employment Law
Opening Doors: A New Way To Protect Women’s Rights In Equal Pay Actions Most people know that men generally make more than women in our country. This is a sad but true reality, a reality that needs to be changed now. However, if you are like most women making an unfairly low wage compared to […]
Employment Law
Convenience Can Come With Privacy Concerns With the breakneck pace with which technology is developing, there are many conveniences in modern life that would have been unthinkable only a couple of decades ago. But there are also dangers. One of the fastest-growing conveniences and dangers involves the increased use of biometric data in the workplace. […]
Personal Injury
A recent study by a group affiliated with the American Automobile Association, or AAA, concludes that the general public may not be as sensitive to the dangers of driving while high on marijuana as it is to the dangers of drunk driving or even other forms of drugged driving. This study’s findings may be significant […]
Personal Injury
According to investigators, a deadly collision in the Newport Beach area may have been caused intentionally. Officers indicated that they were exploring whether a young man deliberately drove his Mercedes on to a highway in the area while traveling in the wrong direction. Police also indicated that the man was traveling at a high rate […]
Personal Injury
Not surprisingly, California has a relatively high number of traffic-related fatalities when compared with its sister states. The reason this is not surprising is that California has the largest population among all the states in the union. With that large population comes a lot of motor vehicles on the road, and with that, a higher […]
Consumer Rights
Key Takeaways On This Page Debt collectors have a job to do — but the law draws a hard line on how they can do it. If a collector has threatened you, called you at all hours, contacted your employer, or lied about what you owe, they may have violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices […]
Personal Injury
For over a generation now, those who support the more liberal use of marijuana in California and the rest of the country have observed April 20 as a so-called High Holiday. One custom of this countercultural observance is to ingest marijuana at around 4:20 p.m. on this day. According to information compiled in a major […]
Consumer Rights
Attorney Todd Friedman obtains class certification on robocall case. Almost everyone receives automated marketing calls at one time or another. In addition to being universally annoying, they are also frequently illegal. However, what most people don’t realize is that victims of robocalls can fight back. Fighting back is exactly what California lawyer Todd M. Friedman […]
Consumer Rights
When buying a car or other vehicle, most consumers expect that every aspect of the vehicle will be as safe as possible, and if a car manufacturing company knows about a safety issue, the company will do whatever is possible to fix the problem. But what happens if a car company knows about a safety […]
Employment Law
When many think of harassment or discrimination in the workplace, they think of blatant examples like demanding sexual favors in exchange for a promotion or keeping a job. However, you may be unaware that while such obvious examples exist in workplaces across California, employees also endure subtler forms of harassment or discrimination. Subtle actions or […]
Personal Injury
Like other states, California has in the past several decades increased its speed limits. Whereas it used to be that the fastest any motorist could travel even on the interstate was 55 miles per hour, nowadays, Californians may be allowed to drive at 65 or even 70 miles per hour without exceeding the speed limit. […]
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