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
- FaceTime
- Skype
- Zoom
- FreeConferenceCall
- 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
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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. If I own 2 companies, can I have employees work 8 hours in one and part time in the other? Same location.
- A: You will likely be sued for multiple wage and hour violations, including but not limited to unpaid overtime, meal and rest break violations, wage statement penalties, etc., unless there is a great deal of separation between the companies. The corporate form is not enough.
If the companies use the same HR people, your companies will likely be treated as one company for purposes of wage and hour law. Alternatively, the employees may argue that the companies are really alter egos.
- Q. PTO pay out and policy issues
- A: According to the Alaska Department of Labor,
Because the payment of sick leave, accrued vacation, or any other type of PTO is not a requirement of Alaska wage and hour laws, the department does not mandate the payment of these benefits. The employer’s written policy establishes the rules for disbursing accrued leave. Further, unless the written policy states otherwise, the employee can certainly leave the accrued leave in place until a future date. However, if the employer has no written policy, generally speaking, the department takes the position that the accrued leave has been earned by the employee, and therefore it belongs to the employee. Employers and employees considering the ... Read More
- Q. My employer
- A: If your employer is still employing you, you are not fire (at least not yet). You can ask HR or your supervisor in writing for clarification or you can keep working until your employer terminates you.
More important, you need to get your license reinstated ASAP for two reasons.
First, if your job duties require you to drive a motor vehicle and your license is suspended, the employer has a good reason to terminate you.
Second, if your employer knows your license is suspended and requires you to drive, you and your employer are opening yourselves to significant liability in the event of an accident. The employer's insurance will probably decline coverage, since a valid license is ... Read More
