Year: 2020

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Brett K. Wiseman, Covid-19, Employment Law

Handling The COVID-Sick Employee

Handling the COVID -Sick and Purportedly COVID -Sick Employee The main questions we receive from employers during the pandemic is how to keep sick employees’ home and how to get healthy employees working.  These are reasonable questions.  Ordinarily, California’s employment laws are particularly employee friendly and are best understood only after the courts have had an opportunity to interpret the unfortunately ambiguous language provided by the legislature.  Due to COVID-19, […]

Doctor with Covid spores in front of him,
2020, Ali Parvaneh, Covid-19

COVID-19 And The FDA

  Curing Covid-19 SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) took the world by surprise.  Many experts knew a pandemic of this magnitude would eventually hit.  No thanks to our experiences with HIV (1981 to present), H1N1 swine flu (2009), or the Spanish flu (1918), another pandemic was expected.  Madison Law, APC represents a company that has developed an antiviral botanical drug to treat Covid-19.  All eyes are on the progress of this drug.  This […]

Divorce, Family Law, Laura Hassan

Co-Parenting During A Pandemic

These unprecedented times can cause divorced or separated parents who share custodial time feel overwhelmed and concerned about the health and safety of their child.  As part of these concerns, the primary custodial parent — also known as the “gatekeeper†— may be reluctant to follow the current visitation schedule.  Despite these concerns, it is important to remember not to take matters into your own hands. Comply with Your Current […]

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Covid-19, Eviction, Susanna F. Wiseman

Residential Evictions During COVID-19

COVID-19 has prompted an incredible number of new laws, orders, changes in procedure, and other modifications to how and when a tenant may be evicted and when rents are actually due.  This is intended to be a nonexhaustive update through this date.  It is always recommended and necessary to confirm that no further orders, law or changes have occurred subsequent to the publication of this update. The first question posed […]

Vehicle with front of hood crashed in
Car Accident, Personal Injury

Steps to Take After A Car Accident

Car Accident: First Steps Auto accidents are unexpected and stressful. Even the most careful drivers may be involved in a collision. When someone has been injured or killed in a motor-vehicle collision in California, the accident victim and their family members are left with medical bills, lost income, and other costs. It is important to get legal assistance from an experienced Madison Law Attorney to help the accident victim recover, […]

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Mediation

Five Benefits of Mediation

Alternative Dispute Resolution (“ADR”) is a technique that can be used to facilitate the resolution of a dispute between disagreeing parties.  ADR is particularly necessary given the impossibility of the court systems to try every case filed to verdict.  While there are many forms of ADR, this article focuses solely on mediation.  Mediation involves the use of a neutral third party (usually a retired judge or experienced attorney), a mediator […]