Annie Chen
Senior Paralegal
Orange County
ArrayAnnie Chen is a Trademark Paralegal with 6 years of trademark prosecution experience and more than 15 years of experience in the legal field. Ms. Chen has been with Orrick's Orange County Office as a Trademark Paralegal since January 2008. Prior to that time, Ms. Chen was a Real Estate Paralegal in the Los Angeles office. Before starting her paralegal career, Ms. Chen worked as a legal secretary in the Real Estate Group of the Los Angeles and Tokyo offices.Array
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On July 13, 2017, the California Supreme Court greatly expanded the scope of discovery available under California’s Labor Code Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”). In Williams v. Superior Court (Marshalls of CA, LLC), ___Cal. 5th ___ (Jul. 13, 2017), the court held that the breadth of discovery in a PAGA action should be no less than what is normally permitted in a class action. Additionally, the Court held that as an essential first step to prosecuting any representative action, a PAGA plaintiff is presumptively entitled in the early stages of litigation to obtain from the employer-defendant the contact information of those the plaintiff purports to represent in early stages of litigation. READ MORE →
On April 21, 2017, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board) ruling that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA or Act) when it discharged a catering employee for posting a vulgar comment on social media directed at his supervisor. In NLRB v. Pier Sixty, LLC (2d Cir. 2017), the court determined that the employee’s post, under the particular circumstances of the case, was not so “opprobrious” as to lose protection under the NLRA. READ MORE →
