Richard S. Rosenberg
- Partner at Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP (21 Attorneys)
- 15760 Ventura Blvd., 18th Floor, Encino, CA 91436 View Richard S. Rosenberg's office location
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Biography
His experience in the trenches enables Richard to provide management with a clear-eyed assessment and strategic options. Richard’s style is one which motivates his clients and adversaries to work cooperatively to find creative solutions to the toughest workplace challenges.
His reputation as a formidable opponent and labor law strategist who is both fair and trustworthy has resulted in peers naming him to the list of Southern California Super Lawyers every year since the inception of that honor and a listing in Best Lawyers in America since 2009.
Recognized as one of the state’s leading experts of workplace law, Richard has lectured extensively for bar associations, trade organizations and management groups throughout the United States and has delivered his proprietary workplace law compliance training and dispute prevention seminars to thousands of lawyers, human resources professionals, business executives and management personnel.
Richard has also published over 75 articles and legal commentaries in numerous trade publications and legal journals and is the creator and principal author of the firm’s widely read e-bulletin Compliance Matters.
Experience
Richard handles complex employment law transactions and disputes for a nationwide client base including some of the largest and well-known companies in America. In this role, he counsels on employment law strategy and compliance, and litigates workplace legal disputes. In the past 12 months, Richard has represented clients in such diverse matters as:
•Mediator in several highly contested employment law matters.
•Labor counsel in NLRB proceedings (Representation Petitions, Unfair Labor Practice Charges, strikes, picketing and hand billing)
•Creating effective strategy for hotel developers and other business owners confronted with “Labor Peace”, ”Card Check/Neutrality” and other organizing agreements.
•Labor transactional counsel in asset and stock purchases/sales transactions; WARN Act and other employment law compliance/due diligence audits
•Defense counsel in federal and state discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims filed with government agencies or in court
•Defense counsel in high profile wage-hour law individual and collective/class action claims;
•Strategic claims prevention planning in connection with employer policies and proposed personnel actions (layoffs, plant closures and individual employment terminations);
•Negotiating and drafting executive employment agreements and other protective human resources agreements and policies;
•Management training on employment law risk management and dispute avoidance
Publications
•Wage and Hour Laws, Advising California Employers and Employees (CEB)
•Payment of Wages and Overtime, California Wage and Hour Law: Compliance and Litigation (CEB)
•Applying the Federal Labor-Management Law, Valley Lawyer Magazine (2012)
Recent Published Articles (Full list available upon request)
•Employment & Labor Law Roundtable, Los Angeles Business Journal, May 2, 2016
•Principal author and editor of the firm’s Compliance Matters e-Bulletin
•Employers Labor over New Laws in 2016, Valley Lawyer, February 2, 2016
•Employment & Labor Law Roundtable, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, January 25, 2016
•Administration Declares War on Independent Contractors San Fernando Valley Business Journal, September 21, 2015
•Employment & Labor Law Roundtable, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, January 26, 2015
•Employment & Labor Law Roundtable, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, June 16, 2014
•Employers Must Now Furnish All Employees with Written Notice of their Rights under the Affordable Care Act, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, September 30, 2013
•Brinker Restaurant Corporation v. Superior Court, Valley Lawyer, May 2012
•Applying the Federal Labor-Management Law: A Primer about the National Labor Relations Act, Valley Lawyer, March 2012
•U.S. Supreme Court Oks Class Action Waivers in Arbitration, San Fernando Valley Business Journal, June 24, 2011
•Unpaid Internships: A Trap for the Unwary Employer, San Fernando Valley Business Journal
September 27 - October 10, 2010
•Employers Responsible For Employee Online Behavior, San Fernando Valley Business Journal
June 7 - 20, 2010
Areas of Practice (7)
- Alternate dispute resolution
- Business acquisition/disposition
- Employer advice and problem solving
- Government agency investigations
- Labor management relations
- Management training
- Wage and hour law
Education & Credentials
Professional Activities
Recent Speaking Engagements
•Recognizing and Addressing The Abusive Workplace. The Los Angeles County Bar Association (Jan, 2016)
•Update on CA labor laws for Hoteliers. Los Angeles Hotel Human Resources Association (April, 2015)
•Working Under the New Los Angeles Hotel Living Wage Law, The Los Angeles Hotel Human Resources Association (December, 2015)
•New Employment Laws Hotels Need To Know, San Diego Hotel Human Resources Association (August, 2014)
•Hospitality Industry Union Update, Los Angeles Hotel Human Resources Association (January, 2014)
•Strategies for Implementing California's New Paid Sick Leave Law. Presented to various ProVisors group meetings in the San Fernando and San Gabriel Valleys (Jan-June, 2015)
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Documents (93)
- What Owners and Executives Need to Know
- LEGAL ALERTS/ARTICLES
- Jan 28, 2019, previously published on Jan 28, 2019 | Author: Richard S. Rosenberg
- Law Firm: Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP - Encino Office
- The San Fernando Valley Business Journal has once again turned to some of the leading employment attorneys and experts in the region to get their assessments regarding the current state of labor legislation, the new rules of hiring and firing, and the various trends that they have been observing, and in some cases, driving. Here are a series of questions the Business Journal posed to these experts and the unique responses they provided – offering a glimpse into the state of business employment in 2019 – from the perspectives of those in the trenches of our region today....
- More New Laws for California Employers
- LEGAL ALERTS/ARTICLES
- Dec 21, 2018, previously published on Dec 21, 2018 | Author: Richard S. Rosenberg and Katherine A. Hren
- Law Firm: Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP - Encino Office
- In our previous edition of Compliance Matters ( click here), we focused on the new laws surrounding the #MeToo movement. This edition of Compliance Matters summarizes the additional laws that are set to take effect January 1, 2019....
- The California Legislature Breathes New Life Into the #MeToo Movement by Passing a Package of Bills Addressing this Issue
- LEGAL ALERTS/ARTICLES
- Dec 17, 2018, previously published on Dec 17, 2018 | Author: Richard S. Rosenberg and Katherine A. Hren
- Law Firm: Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP - Encino Office
- It has been over a year since The New York Times published its exposé on sex harassment in Hollywood. Since then, the #MeToo movement has affected employers everywhere. Governor Jerry Brown signed a package of bills that specifically address concerns raised by the #MeToo movement. This issue of Compliance Matters summarizes these new laws. Unless noted otherwise, the laws are effective January 1, 2019....
- California Judge Gives Broad Retroactive Effect To State’s Landmark Independent Contractor Ruling
- LEGAL ALERTS/ARTICLES
- Sep 03, 2018, previously published on Sep 03, 2018 | Author: John J. Manier and Richard S. Rosenberg
- Law Firm: Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP - Encino Office
- In May, we wrote about the California Supreme Court's landmark Dynamex ruling, which upended decades of thinking about who could be legally paid as an independent contractor under California's Wage Orders. Two questions the high court did not answer: (i) whether the case would be applied retroactively? and (ii) whether the decision applied to all wage and hour cases, or just those under the state's Wage Orders?...
- California Judge Gives Broad Retroactive Effect To State's Landmark Independent Contractor Ruling
- LEGAL ALERTS/ARTICLES
- Aug 29, 2018, previously published on Aug 29, 2018 | Author: John J. Manier and Richard S. Rosenberg
- Law Firm: Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP - Encino Office
- In May, we wrote about the California Supreme Court's landmarkDynamex ruling, which upended decades of thinking about who could be legally paid as an independent contractor under California's Wage Orders. Two questions the high court did not answer: (i) whether the case would be applied retroactively? and (ii) whether the decision applied to all wage and hour cases, or just those under the state's Wage Orders?...
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