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Jeff represents consumers and employees in complex civil litigation and class actions.

Jeff is a member of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Board of Governors and immediate past Chair of the Beverly Hills Bar Association Labor & Employment Law Section Executive Committee.  

Jeff received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law in 2014, graduating 7th in his class with a GPA of 3.963.  During law school, he served as Senior Editor of UCLA Law Review among other positions.  Prior to law school, Jeff had a successful career as a journalist, including serving as a Metro Editor and Reporter for the Chicago Tribune.

• Recent Presentations
  • "New Rules! PPP & EIDL and Returning to Work: Tax, Legal, and HR Implications for Business," panelist, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section, co-sponsored by Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, June 2020  
  • "COVID-19 in the Workplace - Hot Topics as California Gears Up for Re-Opening," panelist, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section, co-sponsored by California Lawyers Association Labor and Employment Law Section, May 2020
  • "Employment Law: Hot Topics, Fundamentals & Beyond," panelist, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section, February 2020
  • "2020 Updates for California Employee Handbooks," PIHRA 2020 Legal Update, January 2020
  • "Dynamex, Increased Risk for California Music Schools,” Music Academy Success® LLC, December 2018
  • “How California Employers Can Protect Themselves from the Coming Wave of PAGA Litigation,” PHIRA Burbank/Glendale Chapter, September 2018
  • “Mindfulness Tools for Lawyers: Counsel, Clients and Conscience,” moderator, Beverly Hills Bar Association, Labor & Employment Law Section, November 2017

• Recent Publication
  • “PAGA Priorities Should Become Clearer in 2018,” Los Angeles Daily Journal, January 19, 2018

• Academic Articles
  • David’s Sling: How to Give Copyright Owners a Practical Way to Pursue Small Claims, February 2015, UCLA Law Review (https://www.uclalawreview.org/davids-sling-how-to-give-copyright-owners-a-practical-way-to-pursue-small-claims/ )
  • Fighting Unfair Credit Reports: A Proposal to Give Consumers More Power to Enforce the Fair Credit Reporting Act, October 2013, UCLA Law Review Discourse (https://www.uclalawreview.org/fighting-unfair-credit-reports-a-proposal-to-give-consumers-more-power-to-enforce-the-fair-credit-reporting-act-2/ )
  
• Admissions / Bar Association
  • State Bar of California
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • United States District Courts for the Central, Northern, Eastern and Southern Districts of California, and the Eastern District of Michigan