Buchalter

Legal Services | California, USA
tel: 707 967 9656 | fax: 707 963 0771
1230 Pine Street | St. Helena | California | 94574 | USA

Main Contacts

Adam J. Bass

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James Rose

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Overview

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.

Lawyers Worldwide: 476

Areas of Practice

Professionals

Partners

Katharine  Falace

Katharine Falace

Shareholder
James  Rose

James Rose

Shareholder
James B.  Wright

James B. Wright

Partner Emeritus

Of Counsel

Articles

NIL: Never-ending Intercollegiate Litigation

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”...

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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Press

Eric Kennedy Featured in JD Journal

Unveiling the Versatile Life of Eric Kennedy: Managing Shareholder; Buchalter March 21, 2024 By: Maria Lenin Laus Eric Kennedy Takes Center Stage: A Rockstar Managing Shareholder Eric Kennedy, the managing shareholder at Buchalter’s Orange County office, is not your typical high-stakes litigator. While he navigates the legal intricacies of his profession, he also finds solace in the rhythm of rock music, occasionally taking center stage as the lead singer of his band, ‘Attractive Nuisance’. Kennedy’s journey from courtroom to concert hall offers a glimpse into the dynamic life of a legal professional with a passion for music...

Leah Lively Quoted in Law360

11th Circ. Wage Ruling Highlights Volunteer Benefit Pitfalls March 20, 2024 By Max Kutner, Law360 "Leah Lively of Buchalter PC, who represents employers, said an entity might consider not offering any volunteer benefits at all. "Do you need to be promising something for your volunteers?" Lively said. "And if you're promising something, is it beyond those basics of food, clothing, shelter that you would need, that might get you into trouble down the line?" An entity might want to make the benefit, or lack thereof, clear in any advertisements for volunteers, Lively said". To read the entire article, please click here...

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