The United States Supreme Court recently issued its opinion in Lamps Plus v Varela, holding that a class action may not be ordered to arbitration unless the parties’ arbitration agreement expressly states that class claims may be arbitrated. In so holding, the Court overruled the Ninth…
Employers with 100 or more employees, and federal contractors with 50 or more employees, historically have been required to file annual Employer Information Reports (“EEO-1 Reports”) disclosing their number of employees by job category, race, and sex. In 2016, the Obama administration’s…
Yesterday, the Ninth Circuit issued its decision in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising, Inc., holding that last year’s California Supreme Court decision in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court applies retroactively. This is the first published decision addressing the retroactivity of the Dynamex…
Craft brewers celebrated National Beer Day yesterday with more comfort that Courts will help them protect their recipes, brewing processes and other trade secret information against rogue employees who take such information. A dispute “brewing” since 2013 came to a “head” on March…
Equal Pay Day And The US Pay Equity Landscape Equal Pay Day symbolizes how far into the current year women must work, on average, to reach the same level of compensation that male workers earned in the prior year in the United States. Falling on April 2, this year, 17 days earlier than in 2005, Equal Pay…
For over 20 years, CDF has distinguished itself as one of the top employment, labor and immigration firms in California, representing employers in single-plaintiff and class action lawsuits and advising employers on related legal compliance and risk avoidance. We cover the state, with five locations from Sacramento to San Diego.
Robin Largent has a regular presence in California state and federal courts and has been lead defense counsel and appellate counsel for large and small California employers in litigation (and arbitration) ranging from individual discrimination and harassment claims to complex wage and hour representative and class actions. She also leads the firm’s appellate practice, having substantial experience and success handling appeals, writ petitions, and amicus briefs in both state and federal court on issues such as class certification (particularly in the wage and hour arena), manageability and due process concerns associated with class action trials, exempt/non-exempt misclassification issues, meal and rest break compliance, trade secret/unfair competition matters, and the scope of federal court jurisdiction under the Class Action Fairness Act.
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