Events Archive

Kronick is pleased to sponsor the Sacramento Area Human Resources Association (SAHRA) and to participate in its Annual Conference. Kronick attorneys Christopher Onstott and Jonathan Hsieh will provide employers with important tools that they will need to manage remote and hybrid-remote employees. Program participants will be able to issue spot exposure areas in their remote work arrangements and address them in an efficient manner. Please visit the event website for more information and to register.

Kronick is pleased to again sponsor the California Public Employers Labor Relations Association (CALPELRA) Annual Conference on November 15 – 18. One of the most vexing problems employers continually face is effectively managing disability accommodation issues, now further complicated by COVID-related questions. Is long COVID a recognized disability? Is telework a reasonable accommodation an employer must consider and conversely, can an employer claim that physical presence in the workplace is an essential function of the job? In tackling these difficult questions, employers must be able to address what accommodations they must consider; when a requested accommodation is unreasonable; whether an employer must provide an employee’s accommodation of choice; how long must leave as an accommodation be granted; and how the interactive process meeting should be conducted to make it as effective as possible. In this interactive session with David Tyra and Terilynn Diepenbrock, you’ll learn how to manage problems in a way that meets all legal requirements and most effectively protects both the employer’s and employee’s interests. For more information and to register, please visit the event website.

The rules of evidence are constantly evolving in response to court decisions, technological advances in discovery, and changes to various state rules. It can be an onerous task to continuously analyze and apply them to your cases. How confident are you in your skills when it comes to gathering and working with expert witness testimony, email/ESI, and the technicalities of hearsay? Shareholder Chris Onstott and other experts will explore key court decisions involving admissibility and practically apply the rules of evidence to common evidentiary challenges you face during litigation. To learn more and to register, please visit the event website.

Kronick’s Shareholder Chris Onstott joins Hanna Brophy and Marsh McLennan Agency as they explore the concept of take-home COVID and current state/federal law concerning whether employers can be liable to non-employees when an employee allegedly contracts COVID-19 at work and transmits the disease to a non-employee. This area could open the door to a seemingly endless chain of liability, particularly when one considers presumptive COVID-19 claims.

We will discuss the effect of AB5 on employers’ attempts to deal with COVID in the workplace. Finally, this presentation will address accommodation issues affecting “long haulers.”

This will be eligible for one and a half (1.5) hours of CEU credit.

For more information and to register, please visit the event website.

Kronick Shareholders Eric Robinson and Holly Roberson will present at the virtual Groundwater Sustainability Implementation in California conference. Eric will provide opening remarks as Program Co-Chair as well as participate in the discussion “Lessons for Water Masters from Implementation of Existing Pre and Post SGMA Adjudications.” Holly will discuss “Sovereign-to-Sovereign Tribal Consultation During the Implementation Phase for GSPs.” For more information or to register, please visit the event website.

Kronick is pleased to again sponsor the Sacramento Area Human Resource Association’s (SAHRA) June Legal Series. Shareholder Chris Onstott will share techniques to help an employer take back control over employee disability accommodation requests. The presentation will include: 

• Recent guidance on when to begin the interactive process; 
• Tools to put in place before the accommodation request occurs;
• Creative solutions to accommodation requests;
• Pitfalls to avoid in the interactive process; and 
• Recent and helpful case law on disability accommodation.

Please visit the event website for more info and to register.

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Kronick is pleased to once again sponsor the Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) 2022 Spring Conference. Shareholder Eric Robinson will participate in a panel discussion about a water policy reformer group that has proposed “updating” California water laws to address drought and climate change. The proposal recommends 11 water law changes, including Funding the State Water Resources Control Board to “verify” riparian and pre-1914 appropriative water rights; funding underrepresented groups to participate in water rights and water quality proceedings; empowering the SWRCB to initiate comprehensive surface water rights adjudications encompassing interconnected groundwater rights; deploying real-time surface water diversion and use monitoring and reporting; adopting an updated Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Plan before 2024; adopting a regulation specifying how water users will meet water quality objectives of the Bay-Delta WQCP, and other proposals. The report has received extensive attention from California’s water community and resulted in multiple pieces of legislation. A variety of stakeholders will discuss the report and what the recommendations would mean for water management in California.

For more information and to register, please visit the event website.

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Shareholder Mona Ebrahimi and Senior Counsel Kevin Flautt will present at the 2022 Open Meetings and Open Records Conference hosted by the Public Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. Courts have been busy over the last few years deciding cases that better define public agencies’ rights and obligations under the California Public Records Act and related laws. From limitations on the “overbroad and unduly burdensome” exception to requests to the disclosure of information about COVID-19 contact tracing, this session will provide a focused update on two years’ worth of Public Records Act case law.

For more information and to register, please visit the event website.

Shareholder Chris Onstott will provide an update to the Roseville Chamber of Commerce on new laws and cases employers need to know in 2022.

• Recent case law affecting employers in numerous ways, including how almost every employer schedules and pays their employees.
• Recent legislation in 2022 affecting employers.
• An update on COVID-19 requirements for employers.

For more information and to register, please visit the event site.