Corporate employers with employees located outside California will have to decide whether to agree to send any out-of-state employees to California for future Person Most Qualified/Knowledgeable depositions.

Attorneys regularly counsel their clients regarding the unpredictability of juries. Less is said regarding the unpredictability of judges.

California employers may now be able to lean a little more on the “learned professional” exemption when facing an employee’s claim that he or she should have been treated as “non-exempt” for payroll purposes.

California employers wrestling with how to control the social media of their staff now have some guidance concerning permitted discipline of rogue employees.

Over the last several years courts have been narrowing an employer’s ability to restrict employee activities after termination, culminating with the California Supreme Court’s decision in Edwards v. Authur Andersen LLP.

Duran v. U.S. Bank could dictate how future class action lawsuits are litigated by allowing statistical samples to prove liability, not just damages, which will not favor employers.