Greenberg Traurig LLP issued the following announcement on June 15.
Timothy Long and Lindsay Hutner of global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP will participate in the Independent Contractor, Joint Employment Misclassification Litigation Teleconference program on June 30.
Hosted by Bridgeport Continuing Education, the teleconference will discuss the challenges of how to classify independent contractors and employees and which employees are exempt. According to its website, Bridgeport is the “the largest California-based commercial provider of continuing legal education.” Bridgeport’s conferences, seminars and webinars focus on emerging legal issues of vital import to attorneys, legal experts, consultants and government enforcement agencies.
As host of the program, Long will present a session on independent contractor and exemption claims and use of the ABC test. Hutner will participate as a panelist in the session, “Settling Simple and Complex Exemption & Misclassification Cases.”
Conference registration information can be found on Bridgeport’s Website.
Long, shareholder and practice group leader of Greenberg Traurig’s Sacramento and Los Angeles office’s Labor & Employment Practice, has deep experience litigating complex labor and employment issues, having served as lead counsel in multiple class, collective, and representative actions and advising on dozens more. Long’s clients have included a variety of financial institutions and entities, health care-related entities, airlines, retailers, high-tech companies, and transportation and logistics companies. He also advises private investment funds and their partners in disputes concerning the management of funds, removal of non-performing members, and disputes involving portfolio companies.
Hutner, a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s San Francisco office, focuses her practice on employment law, with an emphasis on litigation matters. She represents clients in both federal and state courts, as well as before administrative agencies, defending companies in both class actions and single-plaintiff cases involving employment discrimination, harassment, retaliation, wage and hour, unfair competition, enforcement of non-competes and other restrictive covenants, misappropriation of trade secrets, wrongful termination, and breach of contract.
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