RPNA’s Joseph Gjonola Advises Employers on the Role of the Workers’ Compensation Defense Counsel Joseph Gjonola, featured on the cover of Los Angeles Lawyer magazine, talks about the role of the workers’ compensation defense attorney in his article titled “Working Relationships.” He advises employers that workers’ comp defense attorneys typically do not work for employers…
RPNA prevails in petition for review on Augustus v. ABM Security Services appellate decision. LOS ANGELES, CA, May 7, 2015—The Supreme Court last week voted 7-0 to review an appellate court ruling in the closely watched case of Augustus v. ABM Security Services which held that “on-duty” rest breaks are permissible under California law. The Supreme Court…
Nicholas Roxborough has been invited to join the Advisory Board of California Organized Investment Network (COIN). COIN’s vision is to serve as a national model to provide leadership in increasing insurance industry investment in underserved and rural communities throughout California. For more information on Nick’s practice, please click here.
Nicholas Roxborough will be speaking at the 11th Annual California Workers’ Comp Forum in San Diego, October 24-25, 2013. To learn more about Nick’s practice, please click here.
Senior Partners Drew Pomerance and Michael Adreani will be speaking at the Risk Management Society Annual Conference in Denver, April 27-30, 2014. To learn more about RPNA’s experienced team of attorneys, click here.
LOS ANGELES, CA, July 3, 2014—Nick Roxborough was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to serve as a Commissioner on the Police Permit Review Panel. He was approved by the Los Angeles City Council and sworn in as a Commissioner on July 1, 2014. He was later elected chairman of the PPRP in July…
Nicholas Roxborough was named as one of 2013’s Five Most Trusted Legal Advisors by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal. To learn more about Nick’s practice, click here.
Senior partner Drew Pomerance was asked to discuss key strategies in insurance bad faith litigation at a national conference. More than 2,000 people attended the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles’ Annual Las Vegas Convention over Labor Day weekend where Drew Pomerance served on the expert panel “Red-Eye Breakfast: Hot Topics in Insurance Bad Faith.”…
In today’s competitive business climate, “poaching” key employees is not unheard of. Does the business’s Comprehensive General Liability policy cover a potential lawsuit brought by the former employer? For example, what happens when you hire an employee away from a competitor, and the former employer sues you for a host of wrongful conduct claims, including…
The issue of employee rest breaks has long been a legal hot topic and our law firm is no stranger to the debate. Indeed, in 2012, after a seven year battle on behalf of 15,000 security guards, RPNA’s experienced employment lawyers obtained a $90 million summary judgment for these employees in a class action lawsuit…