California business dispute lawyers are familiar with airlines advertising ridiculously low fees that conceal taxes and additional tariffs which consumers are not aware of. Sprint Airways is not likely to advertise its $9 fares anytime soon. The airline has been fined $50,000 by the US Department of Transportation for misleading price advertising. According to the...

Thanks for all of those that attended HFM’s joint employment/immigration seminar. The powerpoint slides from the presentation are attached: Immigration Employment

By: Sam G. Sherman Higgs, Fletcher & Mack, LLP, in coordination with The Law Offices of Jacob Sapochnick, will host a seminar on November 2, 2011 focusing on Immigration and Employment law issues for San Diego employers. The seminar’s flyer can be found here: Employment Seminar.

By: Sam G. Sherman, Esq. Last week, Governor Brown signed several pieces of new legislation regarding employment. One such bill amended existing law concerning employers with commissioned salesperson. Under previous law, an employer with no permanent and fixed place of business in the state that enters into a contract of employment involving commissions as a...

When it comes to promoting their products, San Diego litigation lawyers find that many companies don’t shy away from making extravagantly false claims, or resorting to deceptive advertising. Reebok is realizing that such practices can often affect the balance sheet. The company will pay $25 million in refunds to consumers who bought toning shoes that...

By: Alexis Gutierrez In Hofferica v St. Mary Medical Center, a staff nurse sued her hospital employer after she was fired—when she did not return—at the end of her approved FMLA leave. The employee alleged that, during her leave, she would call in to the hospital to provide leave updates — but the hospital did...

By: Alexis Gutierrez The NLRB has issued a Final Rule that requires employers to notify employees of their rights under the NLRA. This regulation is a mandatory posting effective November 14, 2011. The notice is currently available at here. Employers that choose to download the notice from the NLRB’s website are required to print it...

A federal appeals court has decided that a real estate lawsuit filed by homeowners against builders, accusing them of marketing other homes in the neighborhood in a reckless manner, inflating demand and deflating prices, can proceed. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco has ruled that a federal district judge in Riverside,...

A judge has ruled that customers of SunTrust Bank Inc. and M&T Bank Corporation can file class action claims against these institutions in federal court, and are not limited to using arbitration to resolve business disputes. According to the ruling by U.S. District Judge James Lawrence King in Miami, customers who wish to file class...