Brad S Kane
Kane Law Firm understands your problem is more than a legal transaction
Brad S. Kane has practiced law for more than twenty years in California, Washington, and Alaska. After a decade-long career in “Big Law,” in 2001 Mr. Kane started the Kane Law Firm, a Los Angeles-based practice. Mr. Kane takes a unique, humanistic approach with clients, always keeping the client engaged in their case and counseling clients toward fair and reasonable solutions to often emotional and complex problems.
The Kane Law Firm follows Mr. Kane’s interdisciplinary approach to law and avoids the often myopic “over-specialization” or one-sided thinking caused by only representing one side to a particular kind of dispute. For example, Mr. Kane regularly counsels and represents small and medium sized employers on the handling of employee disputes, while also representing aggrieved employees with serious claims against their own employers.
As a result, Mr. Kane is constantly searching for outside the box solutions to litigation and negotiations in areas spanning employment law, entertainment, insurance coverage, as well as business and corporation litigation. In fact, Mr. Kane has a reputation amongst his associates and colleagues of “taking cases no one else would take” and turning them into gold.
Finally, Mr. Kane has an unshakable faith in our justice system derived from his experience clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Jay A. Rabinowitz, his experience as a lawyer, and serving over 250 times as a Judge Pro Tem. To Mr. Kane, the judicial system holds a unique ability to shape a person’s world view and how people see themselves. Mr. Kane earned his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law and his B.A. in history from University of California Los Angeles.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Litigation, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation
- General Civil
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- Alaska
- Alaska Bar Association
- ID Number: 9111089
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- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 151547
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- Washington
- Washington State Bar Association
- ID Number: 33552
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Owner
- Kane Law Firm
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- General Counsel
- Kane Automotive Group
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- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- J.D.
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.A.
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- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Client's Choice Award 2021
- Avvo
- Five 5-star reviews on Avvo.com
- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Top Contributor Award
- Avvo
- Washington State Bar Association # 33552
- Member
- - Current
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- President of the South Carthay Neighborhood Association and the P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council, Town Hall Meeting Opposing SB50, Los Angeles, CA
- In his own remarks, Kane presented a list of 12 potential alternatives to SB 50, which he said could be much more effective at addressing our current housing issues.
- Are LA’s New Luxury Apartments Just Sitting Empty?, Los Angeles, CA
- KCRW Design and Architecture
- An eye-opening interview shedding light on how thousands of people are living on the streets of Los Angeles while 100,000 apartment units are reportedly sitting empty throughout the city.
- CBS Radio KNX Interview - Employer/Employee Laws, Los Angeles, CA
- CBS News Radio
- Interview on Portugal's law penalizing employers for contacting employees outside of office hours
Unpaid Models Why I Do This?
- Q. Should I file a claim for unpaid overtime hours if they aren't paid correctly?
- A: Without a worker election approved alternative work schedule, your are entitled to overtime based on either more than 8 hours per day or 40 hours per week.
Go to the link below to see if your employer has a worker election approved alternative work schedule
https://www.dir.ca.gov/databases/oprl/dlsr-awe.html
Assuming a worker election approved alternative work schedule and you work 8 hours on Monday and Tuesday, 10 hours on Wednesday and Thursday, and 6 hours on Friday, at a minimum you are entitled to 2 hours of overtime given the 42 hours of work.
- Q. Can hours be cut to 0.5/day after raising concerns in CA?
- A: Assuming you are at will employee, an employer can take an adverse employment action for any reason or no reason, but not a prohibited reason.
If you raised a good faith concern based on a violation of law, such as failure to pay wages, discrimination or harassment motivated by hostility toward a protected class, such as race, religion, gender, gender expression, military service, pregnancy, disability or opposing illegal conduct, then you have protection from retaliation.
- Q. How can I legally protect myself against my employer's accusations and behavior in a hostile work environment?
- A: Assuming you are an at will employee, your employer had the legal right to change your job duties at anytime for any reason or no reason, but not a prohibited reasons such as hostility to a protected class such as race, religion, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, pregnancy, disability, military service, etc or opposing illegal conduct.
The employer's decision to terminate you after you gave your two week notice is not illegal unless it is motivated by hostility to a protected class. Unfortunately, most employers want a two week notice for planning purposes, but do not honor them. Fortunately, you can apply for unemployment due to your termination.
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