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Gregory King and Scott Thomas, partners at Payne & Fears LLP, along with Thomas Haldorsen, General Counsel at Lennar, will present “What Every In-House Counsel Needs to Know About Insurance Coverage” for the...
Eric Sohlgren presented “What’s New for 2018 – Key Employment Law Developments and Trends” to the Orange County Bar Association, Corporate Counsel Section. This program covered key case and statutory...
Eric Sohlgren presented “2017 in Review: Key Employment Law Developments” to the Orange County Bar Association, Labor & Employment Section. This annual program reviewed key employment law cases and...
Dan Fears and Jeff Brown presented a firm-hosted seminar “Emerging Trends in Class Action Litigation.”...
January 5, 2018
Payne & Fears LLP Welcomes Damon Rubin as a New Partner in the Firm’s Los Angeles Office
Los Angeles, Calif. – December 4, 2017 — Payne & Fears LLP, a leading full service business, employment and insurance coverage law firm, is pleased to have Damon Rubin join the firm’s Los Angeles office as...
Irvine, Calif. – January 1, 2018 — Distinguished business, employment, and insurance law firm, Payne & Fears LLP is pleased to announce that two attorneys have been elected to the partnership. Jared de Jong based...
Orange County Business Journal featured Payne & Fears in “Leno Joke Aside, Payne & Fears All Business in Expansion.”...
Richard Falcone featured in Daily Journal article “Merger Motivates Large-Firm Lawyers to Seek Smaller Home.”...
Payne & Fears’ Las Vegas office opening featured in Daily Journal Extra’s Industry Watch on June 7, 2004....
December 21, 2017
Ninth Circuit Adopts Primary Beneficiary Test to Determine Whether Vocational Students Are “Employees” Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
In a case of first impression in the Ninth Circuit, Benjamin v. B&H Educ., Inc., 877 F.3d 1139 (9th Cir. 2017), the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals adopted the “primary beneficiary test” to determine whether vocational...
In the final days of 2017, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) nixed yet another Obama-Era decision, overruling a highly controversial decision in Specialty Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center of Mobile, 357 NLRB 934...
December 16, 2017
NLRB Delivers Big Win for Employers by Overturning Controversial Obama-Era Joint Employer Test
Employers should breathe a sigh of relief. On December 14, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board overturned the dramatic expansion of the joint employer test it established just two years ago in the controversial...