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It’s always something and rarely just anything; eitherway, it can be unnessarily costly. We are here to sort it all out for you.

It’s been our privilege to serve you in bringing legal solutions, transactional strategies, and strong litigation practices, when needed, at your workplace.
The results speak for themselves.

Employment Law

Farbstein & Blackman has decades of experience in the full range of employment litigation and counseling, including emerging trends in wage and hour, discrimination, harassment and unfair competition.

  • Litigation Services
    • Wrongful termination, including public policy violations
    • Wage and hour claims (including individual and class action claims regarding compensation, meal and rest breaks, PAGA, and related remedies)
    • Discrimination (state and federal)
    • Retaliation and Whistleblower claims
    • Leave-related litigation, including under FMLA, CFRA, disability, and others
    • Unfair Competition, including recruiting, trade secrets, and related claims
    • Responses to EEOC and DFEH investigations
    • Workers’ compensation retaliation claims under Labor Code Section 132a
    • Employment tort claims, including privacy, interference, and defamation
    • Employment contract claims, including fraudulent inducement
    • Mediation and Arbitration
    • Administrative proceedings (Labor Commissioner, EDD, DFEH, EEOC, DOL)
    • Labor relations and management
  • Counseling and advice
    • Risk management
    • Employment best practices (contracts, NDAs, policies, handbooks, forms, processes)
    • Pre-termination counseling
    • Severance negotiations
    • Leave compliance (pregnancy, disability, FMLA/CFRA, other statutory and personal leaves)
    • Workplace investigations
    • Executive contracts and compensation
    • Audits of payroll and timekeeping practices
    • Disability accommodation and compliance
    • Worker misclassification (exempt v. nonexempt)
    • Independent contractor analysis
    • Social media policies
    • Presentations and trainings, including AB 1825 Sexual harassment training
    • Employee relations
  • Other: If your concern is not listed please contact us for assistance.

Professional Liability

We devote a substantial portion of our practice to malpractice litigation involving a range of professions, including accountants, lawyers, software and web developers, real estate professionals, and human resource consultants.

  • Representation of accountants, attorneys, human resource professionals, software and web developers, real estate professions, and insurance professionals

Business Litigation

We devote a substantial portion of our practice to malpractice litigation involving a range of professions, including accountants, lawyers, software and web developers, real estate professionals, and human resource consultants.

  • Representation
    • Breach of contract
    • Trade secrets misappropriation
    • Business dissolutions
    • ADA accommodation
    • US Trademark Trial and Appeal Board
  • Counseling and advice
    • Negotiations
    • Insurance contracts
    • Real estate contracts