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Jeff advises business clients on issues including COVID-19 laws, wage and hour laws, job classification, workplace compliance, WARN Act and mini-WARN Act, and litigation avoidance, among other employment law areas.  Jeff also conducts workplace harassment prevention training.

Jeff also has focused on employment litigation throughout his legal career, including single plaintiff, wage and hour class actions, and PAGA litigations, as well as some traditional labor.

Jeff is 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