Kari Fisher, Merritt Jones, Thomas Lee, Jennifer A. Jackson, Jerry Pearson, and Mark Bateman
Kari Fisher is Senior Counsel of the California Farm Bureau Federation, which is located in Sacramento. She focuses her legal practice on water quality, agricultural resources, land use, and environmental law, representing Farm Bureau membership throughout the state in regulatory matters, administrative hearings, litigation, and legislation.
Merrit Jones is counsel in the firm's Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Her practice includes commercial litigation, class action defense, and food labeling and regulatory compliance. She has extensive experience advising clients concerning Prop. 65 compliance, and defending enforcement actions.
Tom Lee is a partner in the firm's Energy, Environment, & Infrastructure Practice Group, and the Commercial Disputes Practice Group. His practice focuses on regulatory compliance, due diligence, and environmental and commercial disputes across a wide spectrum of subject matter areas. Mr. Lee has significant experience advising food clients on regulatory compliance issues, particularly issues involving labelling and enforcement defense under California's Proposition 65.
Jennifer Jackson co-leads the firm's Agribusiness and Food Litigation Team and also is the co-leader of the Commercial Disputes Practice Group. Her practice includes class action defense, commercial litigation, and product liability defense. In the food and agribusiness spaces, she focuses on litigation arising out of product recalls, food labeling, and food production issues.
Jerry Pearson is a Managing Partner at Young Wooldridge, LLP. Pearson represents management in employment issues and ensures his clients are compliant with State and Federal labor laws. He has successfully defended employers in wage and hour matters, as well as cases alleging harassment, discrimination, wrongful termination, and other labor-related issues.
Mark Bateman is a Partner at Young Wooldridge, LLP. Mark's practice encompasses property acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, easements, licenses and access rights, entity formation, structuring business relationships, contractual matters, title issues, water and mineral rights, environmental issues, financing, and other real property-related issues.
New Overtime Rules - Effective January 1, 2019, California enacted new Labor Code sections 857-864 covering the following:
1) Phasing in for agriculture employees the same overtime requirements that apply to all California hourly employees—e.g.,...
