2013 Employment Law Update Seminar

Employment Law Partner, Steven P. Lee, will be presenting the 2013 Employment Law Update Seminar on Thursday, January 17, 2013 from 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM at Ventura City Hall - Community Room, 501 Poli Street, 2nd Floor, Ventura, CA 93001.

The Ventura Chamber of Commerce has partnered with Myers, Widders, Gibson & Jones, LLP, to bring the latest employment law updates to business owners and managers. 

Mr. Lee will offer practical strategies for minimizing your company's exposure to claims from new issues affecting employer's. 

Topics Include:

• The Latest on Meal and Rest Break (Life after Brinker)
• At-Will Language in Employee Handbooks
• Pregnancy Disability
• Commission Agreement Requirements
• Social Media and the NLRB
• New Posting Requirements
• Religion and Reasonable Accomodation
• Sex Discrimination and Breastfeeding
• Sexual Harassment
• Personnel Records
• Rounding
• And Much, Much More...

Admission is free for Ventura Chamber members and $25 for non-members; however, guests of ours will receive free admission.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP by contacting Samantha E. Balchum at (805) 644-7188 or by e-mail at sbalchum@mwgjlaw.com.  


 

Attorney Gregory J. Ramirez Elected President of California Coast Chapter of ABOTA

Attorney Gregory J. Ramirez has been elected to serve as the 2013 President of the California Coast Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA).  ABOTA is an invitation-only organization that fosters improvement in the ethical and technical standards of practice in the field of advocacy. 

Mr. Ramirez is to be sworn in as President of the California Coast Chapter during its Annual Holiday Dinner on Friday, December 7, 2012 at the Four Seasons Biltmore Resort in Santa Barbara, California. 

Gregory J. Ramirez is a civil litigation attorney, with substantial trial experience.  His practice focuses on business and complex litigation, class action matters, personal injury and wrongful death.  

In addition to his professional experience, Mr. Ramirez is very involved in the local community, having served on a number of boards and committees and has held many leadership positions. Mr. Ramirez is an active member of the Oxnard Ambassadors, which strives to build relationships between the local military bases and local Ventura County businesses. He was elected to the position of, and served as, Consul General of the Ambassadors in 2010. Because of his local support of our men and women in service, Mr. Ramirez was selected this year to attend the Air Force Military War College in Montgomery, Alabama in May 2012.

Mr. Ramirez earned a Bachelor's of Science Degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Finance from the University of Southern California in 1981.  After attending an honors program at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England where he studied International Economics, Mr. Ramirez returned to the Los Angeles area and obtained his Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1990.  Mr. Ramirez was born and raised in Ventura, California where he still resides.