2020 Small Business Week(ly) - Session 2

Small Business Week(ly) Webinar Series
Session 2: Legal Considerations for Small Business Amid COVID-19 
The 16th Annual, San Francisco Small Business Week, presented by Bank of America, has broken free of the confines of a week in order to answer the call of small businesses for meaningful support and empowerment, now. “Small Business Weekly” is providing complimentary access to educational and engaging programming designed to address critical topics, especially related to Coronavirus impacts and resiliency. This program will address topics with thought leaders and experts in areas ranging from access to capital, legal implications, and even explore possibilities for pivoting business models.


Panelists: 
Angela De La Housaye
CEO/Founder/Managing Attorney
 
Angela De La Housaye founded the business law firm of De La Housaye & Associates in 2000 in Los Angeles, California. It has since expanded to two additional cities in California, Walnut Creek & San Francisco. Ms. De La Housaye began her legal career in civil litigation with a focus on business protection, and uses this experiential knowledge in managing DLHA’s litigation strategy.  Ms. De La Housaye also specializes in the transactional areas of business law, mergers and acquisitions, liability protection, business succession, trade secrets, and proprietary information protection, and employment matters for her clients.
 
Lindsay R. Meyer
Associate Attorney
 
Lindsay R. Meyer is a graduate of the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law. Ms. Meyer’s practice is substantially devoted to advising clients on personnel policies and practices, wage and hour compliance, employment and severance agreements, conducting harassment and management training sessions, alternative dispute resolution, drafting employee handbooks and a wide variety of other employment issues. Ms. Meyer has represented numerous clients in a wide range of employment related matters, including discrimination, harassment, wage and hour violations, wrongful termination, unfair competition, breach of contracts, and trade secret misappropriation, in both state and federal court, and before the CA Labor Commissioner, CA Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, CA Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH), as well as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). She is licensed to practice law before all courts of the State of California and the United States District Courts for Northern and Eastern California.
 
 
Kellen Stevens
Transactional Attorney
 
Kellen Stevens is a transactional attorney for DLHA. He formerly worked as in-house counsel for a San Francisco financial institution delivering capital market solutions to commercial real estate developers throughout the United States. In this role he split time between legal affairs and managing the organization’s compliance program.
 
As corporate counsel, Kellen negotiated financial agreements with institutional investors, drafted resolutions for corporate entities, and handled a variety of commercial agreements for the organization, such as office leases, non-disclosure agreements, and vendor agreements. He also formed, managed and dissolved corporate entities and supported corporate governance initiatives.  As the compliance lead, Kellen designed and implemented an enterprise-wide online compliance platform, performed internal audits on business lines, and drafted policies and procedures.
 
Prior to working in San Francisco, Kellen was based out of New York, where he negotiated OTC derivative instruments and supported Know Your Client and Anti-Money Laundering initiatives for HSBC Securities, a multinational broker-dealer, and worked for a law firm specializing in securities litigation.
 
Kellen maintains state bar licenses in New York and California.
 
 
Christina Romero
Associate Attorney
 
Christina Romero is a recent graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Law. Christina was born and raised in New Mexico and recently moved to the Bay Area after graduating from law school. Christina’s legal experience in New Mexico includes working as a paralegal for five years at a private law firm and clerking for a Federal Public Defender. Christina’s experience in California includes being a judicial clerk for Justice N. Mihara at the Sixth District Court of Appeal for the State of California, and a law clerk in the Consumer Protection Division at Bay Area Legal Aid.
 
 
Jacqueline Menendez
Law Clerk
 
Jacqueline Menendez is a Law Clerk focusing on business and employment litigation and corporate law.
 
Jacqueline has extensive case management experience, including pleadings and case research. She also supports clients in corporate formation, governance, and compliance matters.
 
Before law school, Jacqueline worked at the Family Violence Law Center as a Bilingual Family Case Manager supporting domestic violence victims. She also worked at Public Counsel Law Center assisting attorneys in the Immigrants’ Rights Project, advancing asylum and immigration rights.
 
In law school, Jacqueline served as a judicial extern to the Honorable Chief Judge Phyllis Hamilton of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She was also a member of the Berkeley Business Law Journal and Berkeley La Raza Law Journal.
 


Moderated by: 
Amelia Linde - Small Business Public Policy Manager,
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce