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Most employers assume a demand letter means the sender did their homework. That assumption is getting more expensive to hold. A growing share of the demand letters landing on employers’ desks share the same fingerprints. Boilerplate structure. Every conceivable Labor…
Many employees assume the legal system will uncover what really happened at work. In California employment disputes, that is not how it works. Cases are proof contests. The story is built from what was documented at the time, not from…
A lot of people believe that marking an email “Privileged and Confidential” is what makes it protected. The label does nothing. In California, attorney-client privilege depends on purpose and confidentiality, and it breaks down in predictable operational ways. The most…
Finding out an employee lied on an application or misrepresented credentials creates urgency. In California, the legal exposure often comes from what the employer does next: how it investigates, how it documents materiality, and whether the response matches established policy…
Your employer started using an AI notetaker on Zoom calls. A bot joins every meeting. It records. It transcribes. It summarizes. You said something in a meeting last month that you now wish you had not. You want to know…
You finally got a lawyer working on your case. The filing was submitted. Then you found out the brief cited cases that do not exist. The lawyer used an AI tool to help draft it and did not check the…
Employer-side employment litigation teams put significant resources into winning summary judgment. The evidentiary objections made at the trial court level are a critical part of that work. Two objection patterns – objecting that the plaintiff’s evidence is “self-serving” and objecting…
You signed a severance agreement. It had a non-disparagement clause. The language said you could not say, write, or do anything to disparage or defame the company – to anyone. You were told this was standard. I see this pattern…
Belief: posting a handbook and a few posters means notice obligations are covered. In California, notice obligations are a workflow. Some items must be posted. Some must be given directly to employees. Some are timing-based. Failures happen when nobody owns…
Belief: once leave is exhausted, the decision is automatic. It isn’t. Leave issues always require a documented process. When an employee requests additional time, modified return‑to‑work, or another adjustment tied to a medical condition, the employer must engage in an…
