Small Business Week - 2021 Legal Challenges and New Risks

2021 continues to bring new laws and their corresponding legal challenges to businesses of all sizes. In this webinar, DLHA Law Group will provide a comprehensive, action-oriented assessment on new supplemental paid sick leave in California and the subsidies and credits embodied in the American Rescue Plan Act.
We will review the ever-changing landscape related to COVID-19, including employee certifications for sick leave, employee COVID testing, and the use of vaccine policies (mandatory and voluntary).
Finally, we will also provide an update on independent contractor law know as AB5 and review current and new corporate formalities and their necessities in this environment (demonstrating real examples of businesses whose failure to follow corporate formalities resulted in personal liability for their owners).
 

Angela De La Housaye, CEO/Founder/Managing Attorney, DHLA Law Group	Lauren Ocadiz, Associate Attorney, DHLA Law Group
Lindsay R. Meyer, Associate Attorney, DHLA Law Group	Kellen Stevens, Transactional Attorney, DHLA Law Group

• 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 and San Francisco. Ms. De La Housaye began her legal career in civil litigation with a focus on business protection, and uses the 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. 

• Lauren first joined DLHA as a legal assistant and has since grown her career and honed in on her area of legal focus and has now focused her area of practice on the transactional and corporate compliance as Transactional Associate Attorney. Lauren also strongly supports the firm's litigation, intellectual property and estate practice areas. Prior to becoming a legal assistant, Lauren worked as a Certified Law Students at the Women's Employment Rights Clinic where she represented clients in wage and hour violation claims, unpaid wages claims, and unemployment insurance appeals. 

• 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. 

• Kellen Stevens is a transactional attorney for DHLA. 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 programs. 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.