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U.S. News/Best Lawyers gives Paul, Plevin, Sullivan &
Connaughton San Diego’s only Tier One ranking in Employment Law,
Labor Law and Employment & Labor Litigation
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Best
Lawyers has named Fred Plevin as the “San Diego Best Lawyers
Litigation - Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year” for 2012
The goal of this initiative is to foster a greater commitment to diversity
within San Diego's legal community.
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The firm is pleased to announce that Jeff
Ames has been made a partner. Mr. Ames, who joined the firm in
March of 2007, represents public and private employers in all
aspects of labor and employment litigation, with an emphasis on the
defense of employment class actions, including claims of wage and
hour violations, employment discrimination and harassment, and WARN
Act issues. Mr. Ames also advises employers on daily
employment-related issues including wage and hour compliance,
employee discipline and terminations, leaves of absence and
disability accommodation, and reductions in force. Mr. Ames
formerly served on active duty as a U.S. Navy judge advocate, and
currently serves as a Commander in the Naval Reserve.
Click here to read
Jeffrey Ames' complete bio
U.S. News Media Group
and Best Lawyers have released the inaugural publication of its
highly anticipated annual analysis of law firms. The 2010 Best Law
Firm rankings, posted online at
www.usnews.com/bestlawfirms, including 30,322 rankings of 8,782
law firms in 81 practice areas.
Paul, Plevin, Sullivan
& Connaughton LLP is the only law firm in San Diego to receive the
highest “Tier One” ranking in both Employment Law and Labor Law.
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Rich Paul, Fred Plevin, Mike Sullivan, Joe Connaughton, J. Rod Betts and Robert Bell, Jr. have been named by California Super Lawyers magazine as among the top labor and
employment attorneys in California for 2010. Only five percent of the lawyers in the state are named by Super Lawyers.
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Washington, D.C., May 22, 2010:
The College of Labor and
Employment Lawyers is proud to announce the election of Richard A. Paul, Esq. of Paul, Plevin, Sullivan & Connaughton, LLP, San Diego, CA.,
as a newly elected Fellow. Election as a Fellow is the highest recognition by ones colleagues of sustained outstanding performance
in the profession, exemplifying integrity, dedication and excellence.
The fifteenth installation of Fellows will be held November 6, 2010 in Chicago, IL, coincident with the
American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law Section's Continuing Legal Education Conference. With the current installation
, the College is represented by almost eleven hundred members in forty-three states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Canada.
The College was the vision of a number of the Fellows. The idea was to further establish this profession in all its aspects as one
uniquely important to the world of labor and employment law, individual rights, collective bargaining and dispute resolution.
The College was established in 1995 through an initiative of the Council of The Section of Labor and Employment Law of The American Bar Association.
It operates as a free standing organization recognizing those who, by long and outstanding service, have distinguished themselves as leaders in the field.
Rich Paul appeared as a panelist with Padre owner Jeff Moorad and several others on Wednesday May 26th to discuss and debate
"The Tiger Woods Effect: The Future of Morals Clauses in Employment Contracts."
The event was sponsored by the Enright Inns of Court, and attended by both judges and practitioners.
Angela Mullins created and hosted the program.
Brenda Kasper will be co-leading a roundtable discussion regarding ERISA and employment law matters
in partnership with Mercer LLP on June 10, 2010.
We are very pleased to announce that Brenda
Kasper has been made a partner with the firm. Ms. Kasper joined
Paul, Plevin in March of 2007. Ms. Kasper has exclusively practiced
management-side labor and employment law for over ten years. She
specializes in representing employers in all aspects of employment
law, including litigation and providing counseling and transactional
service to management and human resources professionals. Ms. Kasper
has experience with both traditional labor law as well as all
aspects of general employment law.
Click here to read Brenda Kapser's complete bio
Paul, Plevin has been named a Go-To Law Firm for 2010 by American Lawyer Media's
Corporate Counsel Magazine® for its expertise in Labor & Employment law. The Go-To Law Firm guide is published
by Corporate Counsel Magazine, which bases its selection on a survey of General Counsel of Fortune 500® companies,
who recommend law firms based the handling of their most significant legal matters in a specified practice area.
Go-To Law Firms are listed in Corporate Counsel's® 2010 In-House Law Departments at the Top 500 Companies.
Rich Paul was quoted at length
in a front page article in the LA Times on March 17th,
commenting on the legal issues involved in Obama administration
efforts to force rescission of AIG bonus payments.
Read the article via latimes.com
Fred Plevin met in Chicago on
Friday March 20th with other members of the national Wage and
Hour Defense Institute, a group dedicated to sharing strategic
information about successfully defending wage and hour claims
and reducing the costs and exposures in these cases. PPSC is a
founding member of the Institute.
Rich Paul presented at the
Management and Labor Employment Roundtable on Saturday March
21st. This is a national group of senior Employment lawyers from
most of the highly industrialized states with whom we interact
on a regular basis on matters of mutual concern. Members are
former Editors-in-Chief or senior editors of their state's Labor
Letter. The presentations included a briefing by a White House
employment counsel, the head of Cisco's employment programs, and
an array of presenters familiar with the current EFCA
discussions in Washington, D.C. The group meets semi-annually to
discuss strategic HR initiatives and ways employers can reduce
liabilities.
Rich Paul and
Kari Searles were lecturers at the 5th Annual
Labor and Employment Advanced Practices Symposium in Las Vegas
on March 18th -20th. Approximately 175 senior HR professionals,
in-house counsel and senior outside HR lawyers participated in
the conference. Rich received the audience's highest
commendation at the end of the three day program.
Matthew Schenck specializes in representing employers in all
aspects of employment litigation, including trade secrets,
covenants not to compete, wage and hour, wrongful termination,
harassment, discrimination, and class action suits. He is also
an accomplished commercial litigator having represented public
and private entities in resolving complex business disputes,
including health care-related cases.
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The firm would like to congratulate Rod Betts, who has been named to the 2009 edition of Best
Lawyers in America. He joins Rich Paul,
Fred Plevin, Michael Sullivan and Bob Bell,
all of whom have been recognized in 2009 and in several previous editions of Best Lawyers, which selects its honorees
based entirely on peer review. Paul, Plevin is proud to have more attorneys recognized in the Labor & Employment category
than any other San Diego firm.
The firm has also been notified that it once again has been
named as a "Go-To" firm for Labor & Employment in an annual
survey of Fortune 500 corporate law departments by Circuit City,
Kelly Services and Continental Airlines.
In a published opinion, the California Court of Appeal affirmed
judgments in favor of a wireless broadband Internet service
provider in a wage and hour action brought by a former employee
alleging misclassification
Paul, Plevin celebrated its 10th year in business this August.
The firm was created in 1998 when
Rich Paul,
Fred Plevin , Michael
Sullivan,
Joe Connaughton and two associates left the firm of Gray,
Cary, Ware & Friedenrich (now DLA Piper US LLP) to form Paul,
Plevin & Sullivan LLP, which was renamed Paul, Plevin, Sullivan
& Connaughton LLP in 2003. [read more
about the firm]
Paul, Plevin attorneys Rich Paul
andKari Searles recently
secured a published appellate decision upholding a victory they obtained in the trial court on behalf of the University of
California (Lachtman v. Regents ( 4th DCA, 2007) 158 Cal.App.4th
187) Click here to view the decision.
The
opinion is an important positive addition to the appellate
literature in California dealing with universities. It gathers
and reaffirms, as California law, a variety of well-known
federal antecedents, and in a single opinion covers a broad
array of academic procedural and substantive matters.
The firm would like to congratulate
Rich Paul,
Fred Plevin,
Michael Sullivan and
Bob Bell for being named to the 2008 edition of the Best
Lawyers in America. Paul, Plevin is the only San Diego firm
to have four lawyers named in the Labor & Employment category.
Rich Paul was a presenter
at the San Diego Employers' Association's Annual Employment Law
Update on January 16th, 2008. It was Rich's 25th anniversary
presentation, having first updated the group in 1983.
Rich Paul and
Kari Searles were invited
presenters to the Orange County Bar Association's Corporate
Counsel section on February 12, acquainting corporate lawyers
with essential employment law updates for 2008.
On February 6, 2008, Rich Paul
made a presentation at the American Bar Association Midwinter
Meetings in Los Angeles, lecturing the National Association of
Bar Executives on 'The Seven Habits of Frequently Sued Managers"
Rich Paul,
Mike Sullivan and
Kari Searles were all
presenters at the four day, 4th Annual Labor and Employment
Advanced Practices Symposium at the Loew's Coronado resort on
February 13-16. Rich presented on California Law Update and
Employment Issues in the Blogosphere; Kari and Rich on Public
Sector Employment Issues; and Mike on HR Best Practices.
Along with Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Poliakoff, M.D.,
Rich Paul presented a
program on Healthcare Fraud to a combined degree class at the
Cal Western School of Law on February 12th.
The firm would like to congratulate
Rich Paul,
Fred Plevin,
Michael Sullivan and
Bob Bell for being named
to the 2008 edition of the Best Lawyers in America. Paul,
Plevin is the only San Diego firm to have four lawyers named in
the Labor & Employment category.
Paul, Plevin is pleased to announce that
Aaron Buckley has become a
partner of the firm effective January 1, 2008. Mr. Buckley advises and represents
employers on a wide range of issues, with a specific emphasis on
the defense of employers in class action cases in state and
federal court.
Rich Paul, Michael Sullivan & Kari Searles
were featured speakers at the 4th Annual Labor and Employment Law Advanced
Practices Symposium Oct 25-27th. [click
here for more info]
On September 20, 2007, Rod Betts
was one of the speakers at the California Public Employment
Relations Board conference titled "PERB: A Step by Step Analysis
of the Process," which was held at UC Irvine.
Denise Brucker was
elected to the Board of Directors of Partnerships With
Industry (PWI) in February of 2007. PWI is an
non-profit organization that provides job training,
placement, and ongoing support services for adults
with developmental disabilities to work in San Diego
County.
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