Prison Legal News Dedicates March Issue to the Memory of Jane Kahn
RBGG’s Jane Kahn, who passed away in December, is honored and remembered in the March 2019 issue of Prison Legal News (PLN), which is dedicated to Jane’s memory and includes an obituary by editor Paul...
View ArticleContributing to the Jane Kahn Prison Law Fellowship Fund at UCLA Law
RBGG and the Bien-Kahn family have establlished the Jane Kahn Prison Law Fellowship at UCLA School of Law in the memory of our beloved friend and colleague Jane Kahn who passed away in December 2018....
View ArticleRBGG Celebrates a Quarter Century of Prisoner Advocacy by Of Counsel Thomas...
RBGG recently celebrated Of Counsel Thomas Nolan’s 25th anniversary of joining the firm. Tom joined what was then Rosen, Bien & Asaro in December 1993, fresh out of Stanford Law School. Tom’s...
View ArticleLawsuit Against Brookdale Senior Living for Fraud and ADA Violations...
RBGG’s representation of plaintiffs in the ADA class action against Brookdale Senior Living – the largest assisted living company in the U.S. – was highlighted in an article in the East Bay Times on...
View ArticleLawdragon Selects Four RBGG Partners to Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers...
RBGG’s Sanford Jay Rosen, Michael Bien, Ernest Galvan and Gay Grunfeld have been selected for the 2019 Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Employment Lawyers Guide. This is Lawdragon’s second annual guide...
View ArticleRBGG Managing Partner Gay Grunfeld Named to DJ’s Top Women Lawyers List for...
RBGG’s Gay Grunfeld has been named to the Daily Journal’s list of Top Women Lawyers in California for 2019. Gay has now received this distinction for the last seven years (2013 to 2019), as well as...
View ArticleRosen Writes for the DJ: New Justices and Shifting Public Opinion Make Title...
RBGG Founding Partner Sandy Rosen authored an article for the Daily Journal on May 7, 2019, New justices and shifting public opinion make Title VII cases hard to predict. The full text of the article...
View ArticleRBGG Files Suit Against SFPD Officer on Behalf of Man Shot in Back During...
San Francisco, CA – May 10, 2019 – Attorneys for Oliver and Sofia Barcenas have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court against SFPD Officer Joshua Cabillo, the San Francisco Police Department...
View ArticleRBGG Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of LGBT Bar Associations Arguing for Equal...
Sanford Jay Rosen, Michael Nunez, and Alexander Gourse of RBGG filed an amicus brief on July 3, 2019 in the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of National LGBT Bar Association, National Trans Bar...
View ArticleColeman v. Brown: Recent Developments in Mental Health Staffing, Crisis...
Coleman v. Brown is a class action lawsuit on behalf of all California state prisoners with serious mental illness. The case challenges inadequate mental health care systems that place prisoners at...
View Article14 RBGG Lawyers Named to Super Lawyers and Rising Star Lists for 2019
Six partners at RBGG, Sandy Rosen, Mike Bien, Ernie Galvan, Gay Grunfeld, Jeff Bornstein and Lisa Ells have been named to the Northern California Super Lawyers List for 2019. Senior counsel Ben Bien...
View ArticleNinth Circuit Rules for RBGG Client in Case Involving Electronic Privacy in...
On July 24, 2019 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of RBGG’s clients and vacated a district court decision that would have required Google to disclose RBGG’s clients’ private email...
View ArticleLGBTQ Rights Advocate Kevin Seaman and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence...
July 30, 2019, San Francisco, CA – Kevin Seaman, an interdisciplinary artist, cultural worker, and drag queen whose drag persona is LOL McFiercen, and The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a...
View ArticleFive RBGG Partners Selected for Best Lawyers 2020
RBGG is pleased to announce partners Michael Bien, Jeff Bornstein, Ernie Galvan, Gay Grunfeld and Sandy Rosen have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© 2020. Sanford Jay Rosen...
View ArticleRBGG’s Bien Comments on Rising Suicide Rate in California Prisons
According to RBGG’s Michael Bien, “We are ending up with more acutely ill people in prison. It is a bad place for them to be. They get sicker, and suicides are up.” Michael was quoted in Dan Morains’...
View ArticleRBGG Client, Popular SF Restaurant Owner, Receives 1 Year Probation and...
For the past year, RBGG’s Jeffrey Bornstein and Jenny Yelin have been representing Marco Senghor, a popular San Francisco Bay Area restaurant owner charged with illegally obtaining citizenship....
View ArticleLawsuits Alleging Lime Misclassifies Workers as Independent Contractors to be...
In November 2018 Plaintiff Yassin Olabi (“Plaintiff”) filed a First Amended Complaint against Defendant Neutron Holdings, Inc. dba LimeBike aka Lime (“Lime”) in the Superior Court for the County of San...
View ArticleBien Named One of the Top 100 Lawyers in California for the 7th Time
RBGG’s Michael Bien has once again been named by the Daily Journal as one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California. This is the seventh time that Michael has been named to the list. An article in the...
View ArticleRBGG’s Janssen Comments for KTVU Investigation of Suicides in Alameda County...
RBGG’s Kara Janssen provided commentary to KTVU for a recent investigative story, Death rate at Santa Rita exceeds nation’s largest jail system as critics call for reform. Kara is a member of the RBGG...
View ArticleDisabled Rights Activist Settles ADA Lawsuit Against Cal Expo and High Times...
October 3, 2019 – Sacramento, CA – Rena Wyman, a resident of Willows, CA who has a physical disability and travels to events in a wheelchair, has settled the action brought in Sacramento federal court...
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