Biography

Lisa Frank is a member of the firm’s Transactional Practice Group and specializes in providing counseling and transactional services to management and human resources professionals. She regularly counsels employers on a variety of issues, including employee terminations and discipline management, reductions in force, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, workplace investigations, employment practice audits, wage and hour compliance, employment agreements and the protection of intellectual property.

Ms. Frank is also an experienced litigator and has successfully represented employers in numerous state and federal employment cases. She has also represented employers in administrative and agency proceedings before the Department of Fair Employment and Housing, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

Ms. Frank provides management training on a wide variety of topics, including preventing workplace harassment, general management principles and best practices, managing employee leaves and disability issues and avoiding wage and hour claims, among others.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Frank served as an in-house employment counsel for Amgen Inc. and was an associate in Morrison & Foerster LLP’s Labor and Employment Department

Publications

• E-Update: New Employee Rights Posting Requirement Takes Effect November 14, September 2011
• E-Update: Supreme Court Upholds Broad-Ranging Background Checks for Employees of Federal Contractors, January 2011
• E-Update: New Law Mandates Paid Leave for Certain Organ and Bone Marrow Donors, October 2010
• E-Update: Interim DOD Rule Clarifies Federal Contractor Law Prohibiting Mandatory Arbitration of Certain Claims, June 2010
• E-Update: New Law Extends COBRA Subsidy Yet Again, April 2010
• E-Update: Just In Time for Summer Break: The DLSE Revises Its Unpaid Intern Test, April 2010
• E-Update: Stop-Gap Legislation Extends COBRA Subsidy, March 2010
• E-Update: California’s "Kin Care" Statute Applies Only To Measurable, Banked-Time Sick Leave Policies, February 2010
• "Advising California Employers and Employees, Chapter 10, Employee Handbooks" – Continuing Education of the Bar, Contributing Author, December 2009
• E-Update: New Law Extends COBRA Subsidy, December 2009
• E-Update: DLSE Approves Deductions of Fewer Than Four Hours from Exempt Employee Leave Banks, December 2009
• E-Update: What California Employers Need to Know About the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, November 2009
• E-Update: New FMLA Amendments Expand Military Leaves, October 2009
• E-Update: E-Verify Rule Effective for Federal Contractors and Subcontractors on September 8, 2009, September 2009
• E-Update: California Employers May Temporarily Reduce Hours and Salary of Exempt Staff Without Jeopardizing Overtime Exemption, September 2009
• E-Update: California Supreme Court Finds That Limited Employer Surveillance Does Not Violate Employees’ Privacy Rights, August 2009

Recent Speaking Engagements

• “Working Together to Prevent Workplace Harassment” (PPSC and client seminars) – ongoing
• “Creating a Productive Workplace Environment” (client seminars) – ongoing
• “7 Habits of the Frequently Sued Manager” (client seminars) - ongoing
• “Mid-Year Legal Update” (for Cavignac & Associates) – July 2011
• “Hiring 101” (for Southern California genetics analysis company) – February 2011
• “2010 Legal Update” (for Society of Design Administrators) – January 2011
• “The Rise of Agency Audits” (for PPS&C Annual Employment Law Update) – October 2010
• “Critical Thinking for the Human Resources Professional” (for Cavignac & Associates) – October 2010
• “Disability Discrimination: Avoiding a Million-Dollar Mistake” (for PPS&C 2010 Sizzling Summer Training Set) – September 2010
• “Employment Law 101” (For San Diego Employers Association, co-presenter with Michael Sullivan and Emily Fox) – August 2010
• “I-9 Compliance Training” (for local janitorial and maintenance company) – July 2010
• “Navigating the Leave of Absence Minefield” (for a local debt recovery firm) – March 2010
• “Creating a Productive Workplace Environment” (for local non-profit healthcare foundation) – December 2009
• “Technology and Privacy: Myspace, Facebook, Blogs and Texting During Work, What Can You Deal With and What Do You Ignore?” (San Diego Employers Association HR Roundtable) – June 2009

Professional Activities

• Member, Board of Directors – Jewish Family Service of San Diego
• Member, Society for Human Resources Management
• Member, State Bar of California – Labor and Employment Section
• Member, San Diego County Bar Association – Labor and Employment Section