What happens when a company which was formed or has business in another state or states begins to transact business in California? Why do out-of-state entities need a California business attorney and how can the Watkins Firm apply our more than 40 years of experience to help to protect your corporation or business?
California has complex laws which govern the conduct of business within our state. It may be obvious for those who have offices or a physical location here in San Diego or throughout California, but what if your company is simply conducting business in California? Some of the guidelines in these situations include specific income thresholds while others are based on a percentage of the company’s overall revenues. This is especially true for out-of-state employers in California.
Out-of-state entities need a California business attorney with decades of experience to ensure compliance with California’s complex business laws and commercial code. California has many unique laws which govern not only how you pay employees but their rights regarding employment and standing in a dispute. For example, the California Private Attorneys General Act or PAGA allows any California employee to step into the shoes of our Attorney General with extensive powers to investigate alleged employment violations while seeking other employees who might join the lawsuit. Contracts which protect employers in other states, especially as they relate to arbitration clauses, may not stand up to California’s unique employment laws.
Pro-Tip: “I’ve talked about this before, but California employers have got to be the toughest people on the planet, especially in the country because doing business and California is hard on employers. In the last five years, they’ve passed more laws to change things for employers than they have in the last 20. The laws changed so dramatically, especially AB five to make it so much more difficult and so much more expensive to be a California employer that every single person thinking about hiring somebody should have a California business lawyer, who can help them as well as a law firm that can provide HR services. We have that if you can’t afford your own in-house HR person, we have HR people here that can answer your questions and set you up and make sure you’re in compliance with all the regulations, all the training for your executives training for your regular employees, that you can have signed off. It doesn’t take that much money to do, but if you don’t do it right by the right entities or people, then you could find yourself in trouble in the form of employment lawsuit, or worse, a California Private Attorneys General Action or PAGA lawsuit.
Pro-Tip: “I’ve talked about this before, but California employers have got to be the toughest people on the planet, especially in the country because doing business and California is hard on employers. In the last five years, they’ve passed more laws to change things for employers than they have in the last 20. The laws changed so dramatically, especially AB five to make it so much more difficult and so much more expensive to be a California employer that every single person thinking about hiring somebody should have a California business lawyer, who can help them as well as a law firm that can provide HR services. We have that if you can’t afford your own in-house HR person, we have HR people here that can answer your questions and set you up and make sure you’re in compliance with all the regulations, all the training for your executives training for your regular employees, that you can have signed off. It doesn’t take that much money to do, but if you don’t do it right by the right entities or people, then you could find yourself in trouble in the form of employment lawsuit, or worse, a California Private Attorneys General Action or PAGA lawsuit.We also have litigators. I’m one of them. We have litigators in our office that have been doing this for years, more than four decades. Sorry. I forgot how old I was. We have won cases where our employer clients have been sued wrongfully that are, that seem hard to believe, but you know are very true. Sometimes a plaintiff’s lawyer will just insist on going to trial and you have nothing else you can do. You can’t pay them five, 10, 60 million. You have to go to trial and you have to win. And so we’ve devised a unique way of winning these cases. If any of my clients ever get an employment claim against them, they, they know to contact me right away. And most of the time, because of all these cases we’ve won, people who sue our clients, the minute they find out we’re the defense council, we end up getting the ridiculously low settlement offers, because we know how to go to trial and win.” – Dan Watkins, Founding Partner
The Watkins Firm are proven San Diego business attorneys who provide sound advice and counsel based upon more than four decades of experience here in California. Out-of-state entities need a California business attorney who can protect their interests, identify potential issues and exposures and protect the corporate veil while ensuring compliance with all federal, state and local laws and ordinances. Is your company technically “doing business in California” under our corporate laws? Does your entity face unknown exposures or potential liabilities? We invite you to review our podcast Episode 6 – Why Do You Need a Business Attorney as well as the strong recommendations of our clients and contact the Watkins Firm or call 858-535-1511 for a complimentary consultation today.
