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Welcome to
www.calbar.ca.gov/laborlaw
The home page of the Labor and Employment Law Section
- AB1825 Train the Trainers
Workshop, Thursday, October 30, San Diego
- 26th Labor and Employment Law
Section Annual Meeting, Friday-Saturday, October 31 - November
1, San Diego
- Trial in a Disability
Discrimination Case, Wednesday, December 3 in San Francisco and
Wednesday, December 10 in Los Angeles
- 2009 Section Education
Institute and California Solo and Small Firm Summit, January
16-18, 2009, Claremont Resort and Spa, Berkeley
- Other News
REGISTER NOW for
 The 26th Annual Meeting
of the Labor and Employment Law Section and AB1825 Train the
Trainers Workshop
Train the Trainers
October 30, 2008
Mission Bay Hyatt Regency Marina and Spa
San Diego
This program is offered in conjunction with the Labor Annual
Meeting. You can now REGISTER ONLINE for one or both programs. More
information is available in the Labor Annual Meeting printable brochure.
October 31 – November 1,
2008 at the
Mission Bay Hyatt Regency Marina and Spa in San Diego
- Hotel Deadline: October 9,
2008
- Early Bird Registration: September
30, 2008
- Pre-Registration: October 24,
2008
You can now REGISTER ONLINE for this program.
The 2008 Annual Meeting promises to be our best annual
conference yet. California Supreme Court
Associate Justice Ming Chin, Professor Erwin Chemerinsky and
Professor William Gould will be our
keynote speakers.
Other speakers will include California Court of Appeal Justice Judith Haller,
DFEH Director Phyllis Cheng, Impact Fund Executive Director Brad
Seligman, Tony Oncidi, Wil Harris, Patricia Gillette and
many others.
In less than two
hours, we will give you an update on the most important California
labor and employment law cases decided this year. We will also
present a 75 minute breakout panel that will review this
year’s developments in California public sector labor and
employment law.
Other panel topics will include age discrimination, workplace
privacy, suing individual defendants after Jones v. Torrey Pines, arbitration, sexual
harassment, family responsibility discrimination, settling at
mediation, the future of unions, electronic discovery, disability
discrimination and much more.
You will leave the Annual Meeting with practical information you
can take back to your office and use right away. There will also be
many opportunities at our Annual Meeting to mingle and socialize
with practitioners from all sides and from all parts of the state.
There will be two breakfasts, two lunches, regular coffee breaks,
and dinner with a live band.
Please don’t miss the Labor and Employment Law
Section’s 2008 Annual Meeting. And don’t forget to
register early to save yourself $70.
Earn up to 12 MCLE Hours
Credit, including 1.25 MCLE Hours Credit in Ethics and 1.25
MCLE Hours Credit in Elimination of Bias in the Legal Profession.
For more information, see Labor Annual Meeting.
 The
State Bar Sections are presenting more than 60 programs at the
State Bar of California's
Save the Dates: 2009 Section Education
Institute and California Solo and Small Firm Summit
January 16-18, 2009
Claremont Resort and Spa
Berkeley
 Save the dates! Join us at the
beautiful Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley for an extensive
selection of quality CLE programs and special events offered by the
Sections of the State Bar of California.
This 2-1/2 day education event offers legal seminars and
training programs concerning substantive legal issues and
fundamental approaches to the practice of law.
Earn up to 16 Hours of CLE Credit in
One Weekend! More information will be posted at www.calbar.ca.gov/sei as it becomes available.
NEW THIS YEAR! CALIFORNIA SOLO AND SMALL FIRM
SUMMIT
The State Bar of California will present the inaugural California Solo and Small Firm Summit
on January 15-16, 2009 at the
Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley, California. Held in
conjunction with the State Bar 2009 Section Education Institute
(SEI), CSS education will continue throughout the weekend as a new
CSS Track at the SEI.
The California Solo and Small Firm Summit provides strategic
solutions for the practice of law and the management of a practice.
Designed for legal professionals who work in a solo or small firm
practice, the Summit will feature power networking events,
mentoring circles, legal education classes, business management
courses, and showcase products and services unique to the solo or
small firm practitioner. Its overall objective is to offer
strategies and tools that promote a thriving law practice.
The California Solo and Small Firm Summit opens at noon on Thursday, January 15 with a plenary
luncheon program. CSS education sessions are presented through
Friday noon, followed by a networking luncheon/wrap-up.
 The Labor & Employment Law Section
presents
2008 Disability Discrimination Brown Bag Lunch
Series
Four Lunchtime Presentations (12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.), held at the
State Bar of California's offices in both San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
Each session offers 1.5 hours hours
MCLE credit. You can now REGISTER ONLINE for this program!
| Session 4: Trial
in a Disability Discrimination Case |
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December 3, 2008
San Francisco
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December 10, 2008
Los Angeles
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For a full description of the program, see 2008
Disability Discrimination Brown Bag Lunch Series.
OTHER NEWS:
Articles
from California Public Employee Relations (CPER):  We have
posted
four recent (2007 and 2008) articles from from California Public
Employee Relations (CPER).
The articles are:
- Weathering the Gathering Storm Over
Post-Retirement Health Care Benefits -- Vested or Not by
Jeff Sloan, Genevieve Ng and Merlyn Goeschl (June 2007)
- Further Storm Warnings in the
Territory of Retiree Health Care Benefits by Richard
Whitmore and Cepideh Roufougar (August 2007)
- Internet Use and Getting
‘Dooced’: Regulating Employees’ Online
Speech by Marion McWilliams and Alison Neufeld (February
2008)
- Down and Out: Economists Assess the
Teacher Pay Disadvantage by Sylvia A. Allegretto, Sean P.
Corcoran and Lawrence Mishel (February 2008)
For more information, see
CPER.
 ABA Books at a Discount
- Plus Special Reduction for All Section Members
Members of the State Bar can now recieve a 15% discount on any
ABA book (or books) and all Section
members receive a 35% discount on any ABA book (or
books). This is a great benefit for all Section members as
the savings on even a single purchase could be equal to or even
exceed the cost of an annual Section membership. For instance, the
savings on a purchase of $200 would be equivalent to $70.
Here’s how the ABA discount program works:
- All Section members are eligible for a 35%
discount. The Section Member
Discount Code can be found on a special "member-only" page
accessible to all Section members. Once you have the discount code
simply visit the ABA web bookstore at www.abanet.org/ababookstore, select any book (or books)
for purchase and during checkout, enter the special 35% discount
code. To access the 35% discount code,
click HERE. You will need to log into your State Bar
Profile to access the link.
- Non-Section members can obtain a 15%
discount. Visit the ABA web bookstore at www.abanet.org/ababookstore, and select any book (or
books) for purchase. During checkout, enter the special 15%
discount code PAB6ECABPW1 at
checkout.
There is a wide range of books available at the ABA web
bookstore including practice related books and law practice
management books focusing on finance, technology, management and
marketing. Note: Discount does
not apply to ABA-CLE iPod products.)
California Public Sector Labor Relations:
 Now you can get the authoritative, comprehensive
guidance you need to answer most any question related to public
sector labor relations in California -- in one convenient resource.
California Public Sector Labor
Relations is a one volume practice guide, written and
updated annually by our Section and published by LexisNexis Matthew
Bender. It is also available online and on CD-ROM.
California Public Sector Labor
Relations provides labor attorneys, public sector employee
organizations, public sector human resources personnel, and state
and local public agency managers with an expert analysis of the
statutes, case law, regulations, procedure, and agency decisions --
including PERB -- governing public sector labor relations in
California.
The full table of contents is posted online. To order
your copy, call 1-800-533-1637 or order online from Lexis Nexis.
Grant
Program:  The
California State Bar Labor & Employment Law Section is
committed to inclusion of persons with diverse backgrounds in its
programs and mission. In that spirit, it has established a grant
program to provide educational and networking opportunities to
promote persons of diverse backgrounds in the area of labor and
employment law.
See Grant
Program for more information about this program, including how
to apply.
Labor and
Employment Law Section on the Radio:  Radio station KALW regularly broadcasts "Your
Legal Rights," a show in which callers can ask questions of
attorneys with expertise in different areas of the law.
Several Executive Committee members have
participated in the show, on topics such as:
- Termination of Employment and Other Employment
Law Issues
- The Rights of Public Employees Under
Collective Bargaining Agreements
- Recent Developments in Termination of
Employment
- Unemployment Insurance Benefits for People Who
Have Been Fired or Laid Off
- Employment Law - The Rights of Persons who
have Disabilities
You can listen to some past programs on the
Labor and Employment Law Section's Web site:
- Listen now to "Employment Rights of
American Workers Abroad " - aired on May 21, 2008.
- Listen now to "Diversity Issues and Other
Employment Law Issues in the Work place " - aired on April 16,
2008.
- Listen now to "Employment Law: Sexual
Harassment, Non-Payment of Wages and Unlawful Termination of
Employment " - aired on March 26, 2008.
- Listen now to "New Decisions in
Employment Law " - aired on January 9, 2008.
Additional broadcasts are also available online
through ilawyer.com. For a complete list and further information,
see "Your Legal
Rights": Labor and Employment Law.
Educational Opportunities Online, on CD and in Person:
 Labor & Employment Law Section courses are
available online in streaming audio and video formats.
For more information, see our
Education page.
Other
Resources
Members Only Area:
 The Section's Members Only Area has an archive of
current and back issues of the California Labor and
Employment Law Review. For a list of what's posted and
instructions about how to gain access, see Members Only
Area
Legislation:  See our
Legislation page for information about how to track California
legislation relating to Labor Law.
Labor & Employment Law Section
The State Bar of California
180 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94105-1639
415-538-2590
415-538-2368 fax
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