By: Stephen Best, Clayton Barnett, and Brian Adkins February 7, 2024 Whether you are a passionate supporter of college athletics or a casual sports fan, nearly everyone has heard the three letters, NIL. NIL (or name, image, and likeness) has quickly become part of the national sports lexicon ever since the United States Supreme Court opened the door for student-athletes to receive monetary compensation under National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston in 2021. Yet, it is likely an understatement to say that the Supreme Court “opened the door” to NIL, so much as they “broke the dam”...
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Buchalter is a full-service business law firm that has been teaming with clients for eight decades, providing legal counsel at all stages of their growth and evolution, and helping them meet the many legal challenges and decisions they face. Our clients are engaged in a diverse global economy governed by complex laws and regulations, and they trust us as advisers and business partners because we are involved in their world. They rely on our forward-thinking to help them resolve problems before they arise.
At Buchalter, we practice in that spirit.
Our founding principle-providing our clients with the best business solutions-continues to lead us. We value each client relationship, recognizing that their success is our success. Our overarching goal-getting the best results for the client in a timely manner with sensitivity to cost-has engendered client loyalty, and the firm has grown from that loyalty.
Our lawyers are accessible, resourceful, skillful and adept at responding to change. Our technological capabilities keep case law and rule changes at our fingertips and client communications current, enabling us to create efficient, superior outcomes.
We strongly believe that technology is a tool that furthers the practice of law and have used that belief to develop a cutting edge platform for our firm. We use a meshed (NVPN) network to facilitate work among offices, Cisco VoIP telephony and Video-over-IP conferencing. Sharing documents is seamless through FileSite, which is also utilized to create our Client Extranets. To support our litigation matters, we use Concordance and Opticon, as well as LiveNote and Sanction. Unlike many firms, we have the capacity to process e-Discovery in-house, reducing client costs.
Buchalter lawyers are also active members of the communities in which they live and work. Leadership is a value the founding partners practiced and passed on to the current generation of attorneys. Our lawyers sit on the boards of prominent organizations, teach and lecture frequently. We actively participate in many associations and groups including the Public Law Center, San Francisco Legal Aid Society, Practicing Law Institute, California State Bar Association, the Los Angeles County Bar Association and the LACBA Domestic Violence Project, the Sojourner Center, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Phoenix and many others.
Buchalter is consistently ranked among the leading law firms by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Daily Journal and the Los Angeles Business Journal. It is also ranked among the leading firms nationally by American Legal Media and the National Law Journal.
Buchalter's commitment to reflecting and enhancing the rich diversity of the clients and communities in which we practice is more than eight decades strong. The firm's diversity of attorneys and staff provides clients with a greater array of creative talent and alternative thinking, benefiting all.
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ShareholderPeter G. Bertrand
ShareholderFaith K. Bruins
ShareholderShawn M. Christianson
ShareholderMatthew S. Covington
ShareholderJason Croft
ShareholderKirsten J. Day
ShareholderDenise H. Field
ShareholderManuel Fishman
ShareholderAlicia Guerra
ShareholderBenjamin M. Heuer
ShareholderJeffrey Judd
ShareholderNatacha Kolb
ShareholderJenni Krengel
ShareholderMonica Mazzei
ShareholderSharon Morrissey
ShareholderGwenneth O'Hara
ShareholderJay L. Paxton
ShareholderJosiah R. Reid
ShareholderNora Sheriff
ShareholderThomas M. Sherwood
ShareholderDouglas C. Straus
ShareholderMarlene J. Williams
ShareholderDylan W. Wiseman
ShareholderJames B. Wright
Partner EmeritusGlenn P. Zwang
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AttorneySamir A. Hafez
AttorneyStephanie Huang
AttorneyBraeden J. Mansouri
AttorneyChristopher Parker
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Special CounselJean L. Bertrand
Of CounselBrandon Carr
Special CounselJeanine M. Donohue
Of CounselJohn Epperson
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Of CounselPeter W. McGaw
Of CounselJames P. Mosher
Of CounselTiffany F. Ng
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Rounding Time Is No Longer a Safe Bet in Oregon and Washington
By: Leah Lively and Alexandra Shulman The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) mandates that employers compensate employees for each hour worked. Nonetheless, the Department of Labor guidance permits rounding of employee time punches so long as, among other things, the rounding is conducted in a neutral manner and, if any favor is shown, it benefits the employee. For example, using rounding, if an associate clocked in any time from 7:53 a.m. to 8:07 a.m., the company would round the employee’s time to 8:00 a.m. and pay the employee for hours worked based on an 8:00 a.m. start time...
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Robert B. Hinckley Jr. Quoted in the Denver Business Journal
Colorado outpaces the nation in closing the gender pay gap, report finds By: Analisa Romano March 14, 2024 "What is unclear to me is whether or not the increase in wages for women is due to the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, or whether it's just running parallel to the Equal Pay for Equal Work Act," Hinckley said. "It's hard to know what impact this law has when you only have three years of data. You may need more runway to understand the long-term impacts of a law like that." To read the full article, click here...
Adam Bass Quoted in the Daily Journal
Daily Journal By: Jack Needham Adam Bass, CEO and president of Buchalter PC said that the in-person engagement provided by a physical office was “meaningful,” adding that the office’s role in a lawyer “perfecting their craft” at all stages of their career had been underappreciated until the pandemic and the shift to remote work. “It’s not that it can’t be done remotely, but I think it’s a lot smoother, just works a lot better, when it’s in the office,” he said, adding that this was particularly the case for early career lawyers who could benefit from the knowledge of their senior colleagues. “For the more senior lawyers it’s collaboration, you know, bouncing complex ideas off each other...
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