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California Consumer Privacy Act
Compliance with the CCPA will require many companies to reevaluate certain practices relating to the collection and use of Personal Information. This Client Alert provides information related to who needs to comply with the CCPA and what is required so that you can begin to assess the impact on your organization. Important Dates January 1, […]
Read »Donahue Fitzgerald Ranked in Top Tier of 2019 “Best Law Firms”
Firms included in the 2019 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers. To be eligible, a firm must have a lawyer listed in The Best Lawyers in America©, which recognizes the top 4 percent of practicing attorneys in the U.S. receiving a Tier 1 ranking […]
Read »Employment Agreements: New Restrictions on Non-Disparagement, Release of FEHA Claims, and Sex Harassment Confidentiality Provisions
It prohibits employers, in exchange for a raise, bonus, or as a condition of employment, from requiring employees to sign a release of claims under FEHA, or a non-disparagement agreement that inhibits the ability of an employee to disclose illegal acts in the workplace, including but not limited to sexual harassment. To be added section […]
Read »Associate Samantha Tran Joins Donahue Fitzgerald
Sam joins Donahue Fitzgerald’s Intellectual Property and Franchise practices. Prior to joining Donahue Fitzgerald, she worked at California Lawyers for the Arts as a Senior Law Fellow. She worked with creative artists, independent inventors, national law firms and corporate in-house legal teams on a myriad of pro bono art related matters. Since 2012, she has provided […]
Read »Senior Counsel Kate Friend Joins Donahue Fitzgerald
Kate joins Donahue Fitzgerald’s Employment and Litigation practices. As an experienced litigator, she assists clients in all phases of the litigation cycle from pre-litigation advice, up to and including serving as a second chair at trial. Prior to Donahue Fitzgerald, she practiced extensively in high-stakes, complex litigation, much of it in the toxic tort arena. […]
Read »Senior Counsel Yen P. Chau Joins Donahue Fitzgerald
Yen joins Donahue Fitzgerald’s Employment practice. A seasoned employment law litigator, Yen handles claims involving FEHA/ Title VII violations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, failure to accommodate, and wrongful termination. She also represents her clients in cases involving trade secret misappropriation and wage and hour violations. She litigates in state and federal courts, as well as […]
Read »The Bounds of the Work for Hire Doctrine
Both the House and Senate Reports have the same four paragraph summary of the intent of Congress in enacting the “new” work for hire provisions in the 1976 Act.[1] In pertinent part, those reports state that the work for hire provision: adopts one of the basic principles of the present law: that in the case […]
Read »The Continuing Impact of PhoneDog v. Kravitz on the Ownership of Business-Related Social Media Accounts
It’s been almost seven years since PhoneDog v. Kravitz, a pioneering case that helped establish that business social media accounts could constitute trade secrets. In PhoneDog, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California denied the defendant’s motion to dismiss the trade secret misappropriation claim. During these past seven years, the use of social media has only […]
Read »Donahue Fitzgerald Attorneys Recognized in the Best Lawyers in America 2019 Edition
OAKLAND (August 15, 2018) – Three attorneys from Donahue Fitzgerald were recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2019: Dawn Newton, Franchise Law Merrill J. Schwartz, Corporate Law Kristin A. Pace, Tax Law The Best Lawyers in America rankings are based solely on peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of attorneys confidentially evaluate their colleagues. As lawyers do not […]
Read »Twitter Account Is Trade Secret, Publisher Says, Testing Law
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