- Sex CrimesThe law gives individuals alleging sexual assault or harassment the right to invalidate any pre-dispute arbitration agreements and class action waiver clauses and proceed in the appropriate court or agency under federal or state law. The law makes it clear that employees who are parties to an arbitration agreement have the choice of whether to pursue their sexual assault or harassment claims in arbitration or in court, regardless of what the arbitration agreement says. More>>
- Assault
- Trade Secrets
- Intellectual Property
- Unfair Competition
- Employment LitigationThe Court held that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) conflicts with and displaces a rule invented by the California Supreme Court in 2014 in its Iskanian v. CLS Transp. Los Angeles, LLC opinion. Until today, that rule precluded division of individual PAGA claims from non-individual PAGA claims, effectively precluding California courts from compelling individual PAGA actions to arbitration, even when the PAGA plaintiff employee had agreed to individual arbitration of any employment disputes. More>>
- Sexual HarassmentOn Thursday, March 3, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R. 4445, known as the “Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021.” This is an important change to the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) that allows employees alleging sexual assault or sexual harassment claims to file those claims in court and prevents them from being forced to arbitration.
- Construction Litigation
- Real Estate Transactions
- Eminent DomainOn July 1, 1923, Alferd J. Hill and Vincent B. Morgan, both 1909 graduates of the University of Southern California School of Law, set out to practice law under the name of Hill & Morgan. Hill had already established himself as a highly accomplished attorney, after serving 10 years as the first County Counsel for the County of Los Angeles; Morgan was widely recognized as a superlative eminent domain lawyer.
- Land Use and Zoning
- Probate
- Debt Collection