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Wayne Perry v. U.S. Bank, 2001 WL 34920473 (N.D. Cal. 2001)

Represented national bank in putative wage-hour class action, involving alleged misclassification of employees under the administrative exemption; defeated plaintiffs' motion for class certification.

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U.S. v. Raimund Wersching (2005) U.S. District Court San Francisco

Dismissal of five felony financial fraud charges against former SF 49ers placekicker.

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Stephen Simmons v. PCR Technology, 209 F. Supp. 2d 1029 (C.D. Cal. 2002)

Represented employer in race discrimination action; removal to federal court based on diversity of citizenship and amount in controversy upheld.

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Lessons to Be Learned from the DOJ Settlement
June 13th, 2013
In the previous three installments, we discussed how California law addresses contractual clauses that restrict post employment employee mobility and how the Department Of Justice (DOJ) sued and reached settlement with six Silicone Valley companies for signing anti-raiding provisions. In this final part of the four-part series, we explore the lessons to be learned from… Read More »
The DOJ Settlement with the Silicone Valley Six Giants Extends Beyond the Law
June 10th, 2013
This is the third in a series of four articles discussing the DOJ’s settlement with six of Silicone Valley’s big high-tech companies. The settlement prohibits the companies from signing any Non-Solicitation of Employees agreement with any other company. However, the settlement did provide for certain exceptions to this general rule, some of which concur with… Read More »
The DOJ Sues Silicon Valley’s Six Giants
June 6th, 2013
Relying on the California court’s 1985 Moyes decision permitting anti-raiding provisions, at least six of Silicon Valley’s largest companies agreed to not hire each other’s employees. This collaboration backfired, however, when the Networks and Technology Section of the Department of Justice’s Anti-Trust Division filed an anti-trust suit against the companies. The Agreement From 2005 to… Read More »

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