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California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
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California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
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On August 13, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied a motion for preliminary injunction to enjoin California Senate Bills 253 and 261. The Chamber of Commerce and five co-Plaintiffs...more
This CLE webinar will examine the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), effective Jan. 1, 2024, and its impact on real estate entities and transactions, including who is considered a "reporting company" subject to new beneficial...more
I wrote about a bill, SB 54, that would have required institutional investors, securities and real estate brokers, and others to report on the diversity status of "founding teams". At the time, I criticized the bill as being...more
Over three and a half years since the death of George Floyd spurred some members of the venture capital community to enact promises to increase their investments in diverse entrepreneurs, California has enacted legislation in...more
On October 8, 2023, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Senate Bill 54[1] (the “Diversity Reporting Law”). The Diversity Reporting Law is intentionally broad in its scope and is intended to help highlight and...more
Last week, I reported that Governor Newsom had signed SB 54 (Skinner) even while acknowledging in his signing message that it contained "problematic provisions". SB 54 requires "venture capital companies", as defined, to...more
The bill requires certain venture capital companies to report demographic information about the founding team members of businesses in which they invested in the prior year. A “covered entity” must gather certain...more