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New York Updates Data Breach Notification Law   New York has strengthened its data breach notification requirements with amendments signed…

Starting on January 1, 2025, the minimum salary for New York City employees to meet the salary  threshold for the…

As with most legislative years, 2024 was a busy year for California employment law developments.  Several important new laws and…

The question of what the biotechnology industry can patent ripened into a broad industry debate after two landmark Supreme Court…

The California Responsible Textile Recovery Act (SB 707) establishes a producer responsibility program that applies to producers of apparel and…

The recently enacted New York Retail Worker Safety Act requires retail employers with over ten employees to implement written workplace…

A federal court has halted the implementation of a Federal Trade Commission rule that would have largely banned the enforcement…

By July 1, 2024, all New York City employers must inform their employees of the Workers’Bill of Rights in the…

Rob Bunzel’s published piece in The Recorder, read PDF copy of the article, highlights the recently released grand jury transcripts…

California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA), Civil Code section 56 et seq., carefully balances obligations to handle and dispose…

Trade secret trials challenge and engage all of a trial lawyer’s essential skills and training. Dealing with state-of-the-art technology–intricate circuit…

With summer approaching, your company may be considering offering unpaid internships. Whileunpaid internships historically have been common practice among companies,…

On April 23, 2024, the FTC issued a ban on all future non-compete agreements between for-profit business and their employees,…

Last February, U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck took American litigation another step into the digital domain: He backed the use…

Beginning January 1, 2024, minimum wage rates in New York City and Westchester Countyincreased to $16/hour, and to $15/hour everywhere…

Effective Wednesday, November 22, 2023, the New York City Human Rights Law (“NYCHRL”)has been amended to prohibit discrimination based on…

The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires certain U.S. and foreign corporations,LLCs and other entities created by filing a document with…

If your Company uses any automated tools such as Upwork or TurboHire in its hiring process, youshould be aware that…

A California judge has made a last-minute decision to delay the enforcement of the CaliforniaPrivacy Rights Act (CPRA) regulations until…

The California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) has introduced a new body of rules toensure a higher level of…

Currently, Colorado is the only state that requires an employer who employs at least one employee in Colorado and posts…

In January, New York unveiled its proposed Fashion Sustainability and Social Accountability Act(or Fashion Act). The law aims to hold…

This article is a collaboration between Bartko’s L&E Department and our Constitutional Law Scholar. Today, on January 13, 2022, the…

On September 28, 2021, the Daily Journal published an article by Ben Riley concerning filing claims under the National Childhood…

This update is part of Pavia & Harcourt LLP’s effort to inform clients and colleagues of new laws and regulations…

The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) requires reporting entities (generally corporations, LLCs andsimilar entities that are formed in the United States…

The State of California just enacted legislation that will go into effect on March 29, 2021 requiring all businesses with…

John “Jack” McLean, Of Counsel to the firm, and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, a Principal of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, have published…

John “Jack” McLean, Of Counsel to the firm, and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, a Principal of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, have published…

August 2020 – Judge William Alsup has interpreted the Northern District of California’s Patent Local Rules in a manner that…

John “Jack” McLean, Of Counsel to the firm, and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, a Principal of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, have published…

John “Jack” McLean, Of Counsel to the firm, and Patrick O’Shaughnessy, a Principal of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, have published…

On June 3, 2020, the Senate unanimously passed the House of Representative bill 7010, the “PaycheckProtection Program Flexibility Act.” The…

San Francisco lawyer’s lawyer Bill Edlund (Pillsbury Madison & Sutro 1956-1999 and Bartko Bunzel & Miller 1999-2016) died on Christmas…

by Marco Quazzo May 2020 – Marco Quazzo, a shareholder of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, has published an article in…

May 22, 2020 – This article by Rob Bunzel containing an important lesson for trial lawyers from great books in…

In a surprising turn of events this week, Congress did not extend the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) past…

This email is being sent to all of our clients to point out two new developments that are of critical…

All Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan applications require borrowers to certify in good faith that“[c]urrent economic uncertainty makes this loan…

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) issued new guidance with an aim ofincreasing the chances that…

Among the many adjustments that companies need to make in these difficult times, one that shouldnot be overlooked is updating…

Executing a Will requires certain formalities, including witnessing, which under normal circumstances may seem burdensome. The social distancing and quarantine…

Marco Quazzo, a shareholder of Bartko Bunzel & Miller, has published an article in the San Francisco and Los Angeles…

The COVID-19 pandemic has required us to radically alter the way we live our lives and to respond tothe ever-…

The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019, simply known asthe SECURE Act, which was passed by…

San Francisco, January 15, 2020. Bartko Bunzel & Miller is pleased to welcome a top-tier Northern and Southern California labor and…

Effective January 1, 2020, employers must comply with various changes in state and federal law.Here are just a few things…

This article by Rob Bunzel containing an important lesson for trial lawyers from great books in the Edlund library appeared…

Ben Riley published an article in the Daily Journal about Saving the Japanese YWCA building – a pro bono case…

New York State has banned hair discrimination in the workplace. The law, which was signed by Gov.Andrew Cuomo on July…

This article by Rob Bunzel containing an important lesson for trial lawyers from great books in the Edlund library appeared…

Ben Riley’s and Rob Bunzel’s article on Sometimes It Pays to Opt for a Jury in Business Disputes is published…

New Federal Stimulus for Businesses during the COVID-19 Crisis. It is merely days after enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief…

Effective December 31, 2018 both the state minimum wage and the minimum salary level for employees to be exempt from…

San Francisco lawyer’s lawyer Bill Edlund (Pillsbury Madison & Sutro 1956-1999 and Bartko Bunzel & Miller 1999-2016) died on Christmas…

San Francisco lawyer’s lawyer Bill Edlund (Pillsbury Madison & Sutro 1956-1999 and Bartko Bunzel & Miller 1999-2016) died on Christmas…

Smithsonian Magazine – In the final months of the 19th century, a German sculptor named Walter Schott began drawing up…

To avoid regret after direct examination, listen to the witness, get to know the witness, and weave your examination around…

A ground-breaking research project initiated last year by the German government, museums, research institutes in cooperation with the heirs of…

Tracking down artwork that was stolen by the Nazis on the eve of World War II is no easy task. …

On January 1, 2018, New York’s Paid Family Leave Benefits Law (“PFLBL”) became effective. ThePFLBL provides eight weeks of total…

Spring 2017 – Trade secret trials challenge and engage all of a trial lawyer’s essential skills and training. Dealing with…

Spring 2017 – Ever since Congress enacted the Federal Arbitration Act, it has been the national policy of the United…

November 2016 – The law of trade secrets protects information that provides independent economic value because others do not generally…

Since October 2014, the firm has been counsel for Susan Koret, former Chair and widow of the founder of the…

The still life painting by Narcisso Virgilio Diaz de la Pena was put on compulsory auction first in 1934, and…

Rare Roman-era paintings confiscated by Germany, acquired by author of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front,’ sold to University of…

The famous nymphs fountain (“Nymphenbrunnen”) in the park of Castle Schlitz, supposedly got here after its expropriation by the Nazis.…

Looted Art – An auction of three paintings, which were long in possession of a museum, will divide the art…

Spring 2016 – Motions for preliminary injunctive relief are routinely sought in cases involving claims for trademark infringement. For many…

The Spring 2016 edition of the ABTL Report – Northern California, Volume 24, No. 3, features an article by C.…

Winter 2015 – How often do we look back and wonder whether we could have done things better, worked harder,…

The Winter 2015 edition of the ABA Litigation Magazine features an article by Ben Riley on “How Not to Regret…

The Oskar Reinhart Foundation in Winterthur has restituted a pastel drawing by Adolph Menzel of its collection to the heirs…

The Winter 2015 edition of California Health Law News (a Publication of the California Society for Healthcare Attorneys), Volume XXXIII,…

Federal Circuit Declines Request for Rehearing En Banc in High Profile, Non-Invasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Patent Case, Preserving Victory for…

Federal Circuit Affirms Grant of Declaratory Judgment Obtained by BartkoZankel in High Profile Non-Invasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Patent Case The…

In spring 2015, one of the visually most striking paintings by Carl Eduard Ferdinand Blechen (1798–1840), View of the Monastery…

C. Griffith Towle co-authored the following PDF article in the Franchising (& Distribution) Currents section of the ABA Franchise Law…

March 1, 2015 Michael D. Abraham authored an article concerning California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act’s (“CMIA”) intended balance having…

The Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) recently returned ownership of eight art objects in its collection to the…

The Nazis have chiseled his art collection out of Rudolf Mosse and scattered it all over the world. Now, the…

US heirs of the Berlin publisher claim works of art from the collection confiscated in 1934 – German museums are…

Mathildenhöhe – Next round of negotiations regarding the “Frühlingssturm” in prospect. Read full article

TSindelfingen – even before Sindelfingen’s mayor Bernd Vöhringer appointed the new town council ceremonially, he had to inform the councils…

William Edlund, one of the founders and current President of The Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, publishes Viewpoint: How…

October 2012 – Irreparable harm is the sine qua non of injunctive relief – a showing of a likelihood of…