Top Employment Law Cases of 2019

By Andrew H. Friedman, Ramit Mizrahi, and Anthony Oncidi

Andrew H. Friedman is a partner with Helmer Friedman LLP in Culver City, where he primarily represents employees in all areas of employment law. Mr. Friedman is the author of a leading employment law practice guide—Litigating Employment Discrimination Cases (James Publishing, 2007). Ramit Mizrahi is the founder of Mizrahi Law, APC in Pasadena, where she represents employees exclusively. She is Chair of the Pasadena Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section and Immediate Past Chair of the CLA Labor and Employment Law Section. She can be reached at ramit@mizrahilaw. com. Anthony J. Oncidi is a partner in and the Chair of the Labor and Employment Department of Proskauer Rose LLP in Los Angeles, where he exclusively represents employers and management in all areas of employment and labor law. His telephone number is (310) 284-5690 and his email address is aoncidi@proskauer.com.

In what has become the new normal, 2019 saw a continued deluge of employment decisions, an average of more than one new opinion each day! The courts also issued multiple important decisions that, while not in employment law cases, directly affect employment attorneys and their clients.

Federal and State Courts Continue to Churn out Arbitration Decisions