December 18, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA)—Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) is pleased to announce the promotion of three associates and one of counsel to partner: Barbara A. Arnold in the Labor & Employment Department, Jessica Bromall Sparkman in the Intellectual Property Department, Jill R. Skinner in the Taxation and Trusts & Estates Department, […]
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP (JMBM) has been recognized as a 2014 Go-To Law Firm® for the top 500 companies in the United States, as determined by American Lawyer Media’s (ALM) annual survey of in-house counsel at Fortune 500® companies. JMBM was recognized by its Fortune 500® clients in the following seven key litigation […]
Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP recovered over $400,000 in fees and costs on behalf of client Northrop Grumman Corporation in an arbitration with an employee who claimed she was retaliated against for filing a lawsuit against the company. The first lawsuit, which alleged sexual harassment, was dismissed on a motion for summary judgment; an […]
July 19, 2012–Marta Fernandez, Co-Chair of JMBM’s Labor & Employment Department and Labor Chair of the Firm’s Global Hospitality Group®, has been recognized as one of the Top 75 Labor and Employment Lawyers by the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper. Marta has more than 25 years of experience advising management clients in all aspects […]
Daughters of Charity Health System and Union Members Reach Agreement Collective Bargaining Agreement Protects Both DCHS and SEIU-UHW LOS ANGELES—May 1, 2012. The Daughters of Charity Health System (DCHS) and Service Employees International Union–United Healthcare Workers (SEIU-UHW) today reached agreement on a new three-year contract covering nearly 2,600 employees in six DCHS hospitals in California: […]
NLRB Rules in Favor of Good Samaritan Hospital and Orders New Decertification Election LOS ANGELES—On February 1, 2010, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled in favor of Good Samaritan Hospital Los Angeles, represented by Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro LLP, and against the Service Employees International, United Healthcare Workers-West (SEIU or the Union), overturning […]