Practice Areas
Tested & Trusted
Expertise
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 inducementv
- 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.
Business Litigation
We have tried cases in a broad spectrum of matters affecting individuals and businesses in our community, with experience in all litigation phases, from filing to appeal.
- 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
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
411 Borel Avenue Suite 600, CA 94402, USA
(650) 554-6200, Monday – Friday: 8 AM – 5 PM