Employer’s Alert: New Supplemental Paid Sick Leave Requirements on the State and Federal Front As more Americans are transitioning from their remote offices back to the workplace, both the United States Congress and the California legislature have passed new laws to provide additional paid time off should employees need to be absent from work for […]
California Supreme Court Decision in Vazquez v. Jan-Pro Franchising International, Inc. Heightens Legal Risk for Companies That Classify Workers as Independent Contractors The legal landscape for companies that classify workers as independent contractors became more perilous after the California Supreme Court recently ruled that its decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court applies […]
Cindy Ricketts Named One of The 2021 Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona Congratulations to Ricketts Case founder Cindy Ricketts, who was named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in Arizona for 2021! (https://azbigmedia.com/business/the-top-100-lawyers-in-arizona-for-2021/) This group is chosen by AZ Business magazine’s editorial team in collaboration with industry experts from a pool of more than 2,000 […]
COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standards: What Do Employers Need to Know? Recognizing that the COVID-19 pandemic will not be leaving us soon, the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board recently proposed changes to the California Code of Regulations to address COVID-19 prevention measures for the workplace. The Board’s Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”) were adopted by […]
Is It 2021 Yet? Not Quite, But New 2021 California Laws Are Here! 2020 has been quite the year, but not the type of year any of us had in mind back on January 1. Sports, schools, theatre movies, and dining inside restaurants all were replaced by a “new normal” of remote work from home, […]
The Best Lawyers in America© 2021 Recognition Ricketts Case is proud to announce that three of our attorneys have been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America© 2021. Please join us in congratulating Cindy Ricketts, Michele Floyd, and Merrili Escue for this prestigious honor. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become […]
Santa Clara County Enters New Phase to Contain the Coronavirus as Health Officer Issues Updated Order As COVID-19 numbers continue to climb, the Santa Clara County Health Officer has taken steps to balance efforts to contain the virus while recognizing that many local businesses have been unable to operate for months, by issuing a new […]
It’s Off to the Races: The Employment Law Landscape Continues to Evolve As Employers Sprint to Rebuild and Reopen Businesses In the Shadow of COVID-19 As states begin to move away from Shelter in Place orders and employers are permitted to reopen and rebuild their businesses, plaintiffs’ lawyers, unsurprisingly, have wasted no time in racing […]
With great pleasure, Ricketts Case announces that Chambers and Partners ranked Cindy Ricketts, one of the firm’s founding partners, for Litigation: General Commercial. Chambers ranks individual lawyers from across the United States for “their legal knowledge and experience, their ability, their effectiveness and their client-service” based on rigorous vetting through “interviews with those active in […]
Ricketts Case is proud to announce that founder Cindy Ricketts was named one of Arizona’s Top 25 Arizona Women Lawyers in the 2020 Southwest Super Lawyers and was featured in the cover article in the 2020 Southwest Super Lawyers annual magazine, which is available here. This is the seventh consecutive year Cindy has been named […]
Ricketts Case is proud to announce our SuperLawyers and Rising Stars for 2020 in our San Diego and Phoenix offices! SuperLawyers for 2020 are Merrili Escue (San Diego), Cindy Ricketts (Phoenix), and Erik Johnson (San Diego). The SuperLawyers list for Northern California will be announced in July and we’re confident it will include more of […]
Ricketts Case’s Erik Johnson recently served as a panel member for the webinar, “HR’s New Hybrid Workforce – Connecting & Communicating.” During the webinar, sponsored by the North County Human Resources – San Diego, Erik discussed new workplaces and converted home spaces, disconnected teams and distributed work, employee disruptions, stabilizing mental health, communication, and HR’s […]