California Safer at Home Order and COVID-19 Resources
Last night, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a California state-wide quarantine in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Accordingly, the employees in our offices will be telecommuting in order to ensure the health and safety of our employees...
Employment Alert: New Paid Leave Requirements Under the Families First Coronavirus Response Act
Late last night, the President signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) (the “FFCRA”) to assist families and workers during the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to benefits relating to COVID-19 testing, food assistance, unemployment assistance...
Keesal, Young & Logan Business Continuity Plan and Coronavirus Monitoring
As you may have read, San Francisco has issued a city-wide quarantine in an effort to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Accordingly, our physical office in San Francisco has been temporarily closed in order to ensure the health and safety of our...
Keesal, Young & Logan Team Recognized in Daily Journal’s Top Verdicts 2019 in a Qui Tam Case
The Daily Journal has recognized Keesal, Young & Logan (“KYL”) in its 2019 “Top Verdicts” list for the firm’s role in a qui tam California False Claims Act case. This annual series highlights the most impactful verdicts in California courts for the entire year. In...
Employment Alert: Buying Peace? PAGA Plaintiffs Maintain Standing Even After Settling Individual Claims
This morning the California Supreme Court issued its opinion in Kim v. Reins Int’l. California Inc., holding that employees do not lose standing to pursue Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims even if they previously settled and dismissed their individual claims...
CCPA Proposed Regulations Modified — Again
On March 11, 2020, the California Attorney General’s office published its second set of modifications to the proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act. The second set of modifications is available here. One of the major frustrations for...
KYL Shareholders Name Esther Cho as Chair of Executive Committee
Keesal, Young & Logan's Shareholders voted to name Esther Cho as the Chair of the firm's Executive Committee last week. A litigator with KYL her entire legal career, Esther has played an active leadership role in the firm with a particular focus on recruiting and...
“Professional Insights,” featuring Skip Keesal by Capital Forensics, Inc.
In 1970, Skip Keesal founded the law firm of Keesal, Young & Logan, which now has offices in Long Beach, San Francisco, Seattle, Anchorage, and Hong Kong; specializing across a very broad range of practice areas. Skip has tried more than 250 cases in 17 different...
Securities Alert: U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies “Actual Knowledge” in ERISA Statute of Limitations Decision
On February 26, 2020, the United States Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion holding that, for purposes of ERISA’s three-year statute of limitations for fiduciary breach claims, participants in a retirement plan have “actual knowledge” of information only if they...
Employment Alert: New District Court Decision Creates Split in AB 5 (Independent Contractor) Authority
Yesterday, the United States District Court for the Central District of California denied two employers’ motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the enforcement of Assembly Bill 5 (“AB 5”). AB 5, which pertains to the classification of employees and independent...
“10 Privacy Predictions for 2020” (February 6, 2020)
In the last two years, businesses have been catapulted into a dizzying new world, with privacy expectations and requirements that were unheard of just two years ago. As soon as the law seemed settled in in the European Union with the General Data Protection Regulation...
Privacy Alert: California Attorney General Issues Modified California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations
On February 7, 2020, the California Attorney General’s office published its long awaited revised proposed regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act (available here). Here are 10 takeaways for businesses: 1. Guidance regarding “personal information.”...
Employment Alert: California District Court Halts Enforcement of AB 51’s Arbitration Ban
Today, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California issued an order enjoining the California Attorney General, California Labor Commissioner, the California Workforce Development Agency, and the California Department of Fair Employment and...
Privacy Alert: Suffering from CCPA Compliance Nightmares?
If the prospect of complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act is keeping you up at night, start by taking these manageable steps, outlined by Stacey Garrett, to keep your organization in compliance. Click here to read the full article. – Keesal, Young &...
Employment Alert: New Developments on New California Laws
On January 16, 2020, the United States District Court for the Southern District of California in California Trucking Association, et al. v. Becerra, et al., issued a preliminary injunction that will temporarily prevent the enforcement of Assembly Bill (AB 5) against...
Did You Ring in the New Year with Confetti…and a New CCPA Privacy Policy?
Californians spent January 1, 2020 like most other Americans: making (and breaking) New Year’s resolutions, watching college football bowl games and saying farewell to 2019. But Californians also woke up that day to new privacy rights granted to them as a result of...
Privacy Alert: California Attorney General Issues Advisory Outlining New Data Privacy Rights for California Consumers
The New Year has arrived, and so has the California Consumer Privacy Act. On January 6, 2020, Attorney General Xavier Becerra kicked it off by issuing an advisory for consumers highlighting their new rights under the CCPA. (See the full advisory here.) Attorney...
Employment Alert: California District Court Temporarily Halts Enforcement of AB 51’s Arbitration Ban
Assembly Bill 51 (AB 51) was set to take effect January 1, 2020. It prohibits requiring as a condition of employment arbitration of FEHA or Labor Code violations. (See KYL Alert dated December 18, 2019.) The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, California Chamber of Commerce,...
Recent result: KYL Obtains Dismissal on Behalf of a Financial Services Client
In a recent FINRA Arbitration, KYL obtained a complete defense award related to an investor’s accounts with a major financial services client. The claimant had brought claims for fraud, negligent misrepresentation, churning, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent...
Employment Alert: 2020 “Foresight”: New California Laws For A New Year
As another year draws to a close, new laws are set to take effect once the calendar flips to January 2020. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is on the forefront of most minds, but that does not mean California employers should take other new laws any less...
KYL Preserves Win on Appeal
On behalf of a major financial institution, KYL attorneys Melanie Ronen and Valerie Holder prevailed on a Motion for Summary Judgment in an action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. Plaintiff alleged a number of claims against...
Recent result: KYL Obtains “Zero” Award on Behalf of a Financial Services Client
In a recent FINRA Arbitration, KYL obtained a complete defense award related to an investor’s accounts with a major financial services client. The claimant had brought claims for breach of fiduciary duty, negligent supervision, elder abuse and violation of the...
For the CCPA, New AG Regulations Are a “How-To” Manual
Yes, the California Consumer Privacy Act is really happening. As the clock ticks down toward the January 1, 2020 effective date of the California Consumer Privacy Act, many businesses are coming to grips with the fact that the CCPA is not going away. Click here to...
The CCPA: Why the Employee and B2B Amendments Do Not Eliminate Compliance Obligations
California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed several amendments to the California Consumer Privacy Act. Two of these amendments – commonly referred to as the “employee exemption” and the “business-to-business (B2B) exemption” – narrow the application of the CCPA....