The attorneys at Los Angeles, California law firm Miller | Williams LLP represent businesses, in-house counsel, Human Resources professionals, and select individual employees in all areas of California and federal employment law, including discrimination, harassment, and wage and hour, assisting them with litigation matters, as well as advice and counseling on day-to-day employment issues.
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- PRESS RELEASE – Boutique Los Angeles Employment Law Firm Miller | Williams LLP Opens Its Doors in Downtown, Offering Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Competent, Cost-Effective Representation
Los Angeles, California, July 1, 2010 – Miller | Williams LLP, a boutique Los Angeles, California law firm handling state and federal employment-related litigation and counseling matters, opens its doors this month in downtown’s Union Bank Plaza, located at 445 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 2700. … click here to read more. PDF Download
- PRESS RELASE – Meredith Davis Williams to Blog for Girls in Tech’s Los Angeles Chapter on Issues Involving Law, Technology, and Social Media
Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2010 - Miller | Williams LLP partner Meredith Davis Williams will be blogging for Girls In Tech, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. Her blog posts will focus on issues involving the intersection of law, technology, and social media. … click here to read more. PDF Download
PRESS RELEASE
Boutique Los Angeles Employment Law Firm Miller | Williams LLP Opens Its Doors in Downtown, Offering Small and Mid-Sized Businesses Competent, Cost-Effective Representation
Los Angeles, California, July 1, 2010 – Miller | Williams LLP, a boutique Los Angeles, California law firm handling state and federal employment-related litigation and counseling matters, opens its doors this month in downtown’s Union Bank Plaza, located at 445 S. Figueroa Street, Suite 2700.
Due to the current economic downturn, the ever-rising costs of legal services, and the ever-increasing complexity of state and federal employment laws, now more than ever, small and mid-sized businesses need competent, yet affordable, legal representation in the area of employment law. Founding partners Kirsten E. Miller and Meredith Davis Williams joined forces to start Miller | Williams LLP to fill that need.
The firm offers California employers of all sizes, as well as select employees, experienced and cost-effective legal services in a wide range of employment-related litigation matters, including matters involving discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour issues.
In addition to its litigation practice, Miller | Williams LLP also seeks to help California employers conserve resources by avoiding litigation and limiting exposure to potential liability. Through its advice and counseling practice, Miller | Williams LLP assists employers with compliance issues, employee handbooks, workplace policies, overtime exemption classifications, disability accommodations, medical leave issues, workplace investigations, hiring, employee discipline, terminations, privacy issues, and much more.
“As a former small business owner, I understand the increasing need for businesses to hire employment counsel to help them protect against liability,” said Ms. Miller, who owned and operated a successful security company in California’s High Desert before attending law school. “I also understand that many small businesses cannot afford to pay the large law firms’ billing rates, and I hate to see good companies forgo this important business necessity because of a lack of affordable options and a lack attention to their needs.”
About the Partners
Ms. Miller and Ms. Williams met as associates at their former law firm, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP, a west-side law firm with a prominent labor and employment practice. After leaving the firm, Ms. Miller practiced in the labor and employment department of Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP, well-known for its wage and hour class action practice, among other things; and Ms. Williams spent time acting as in-house employment counsel for a small, successful start-up, where she assisted the company in the creation of its Human Resources department, as well as advised the company regarding a variety of day-to-day employment law matters.
PRESS RELASE
Meredith Davis Williams to Blog for Girls in Tech’s Los Angeles Chapter on Issues Involving Law, Technology, and Social Media
Los Angeles, California, June 23, 2010 - Miller | Williams LLP partner Meredith Davis Williams will be blogging for Girls In Tech, a social network enterprise focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of like-minded, professional, intelligent and influential women in technology. Her blog posts will focus on issues involving the intersection of law, technology, and social media.
"We’re so happy to have Meredith blogging for GIT LA. Her legal expertise is invaluable, and we look forward to reading what she has to say about this topic," said Laurel Kaufman, managing director of Girls in Tech LA, co-founder of AK Consulting Group, and CEO of Los Angeles Consulting Group.
“Social media sites and blogs are already having a significant impact in the legal arena, particularly in employment litigation,” commented Williams. “Employers are able to learn much more about the personal lives of applicants, current employees, and former employees through Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and the multitude of social media sites that are out there than they would have in the past.” Additionally, she adds, “employers’ confidential information can often end up published for the world to see on the blog of an angry employee venting about company business.”
Beyond the employment law context, social media sites and blogs are also having an impact in other areas of litigation. For example, Williams commented that “these sites have also created a new source of defamation and disparagement lawsuits.”
Williams’ posts can be found regularly on the Girls in Tech blog, along with posts from Girls in Tech’s many other bloggers, at www.girlsintech.net. Her current blog post can be read by clicking here.
About Miller | Williams LLP
Miller | Williams LLP is a boutique employment law firm located in downtown Los Angeles. The firm represents California employers of all sizes in a wide range of state and federal employment-related litigation, counsels businesses on litigation avoidance and legal compliance, prepares employee handbooks, and conducts workplace investigations and sexual harassment trainings. For more information, contact Meredith Davis Williams at (213) 426-2123, mwilliams@millerwilliamslaw.com, or @MerEsqLA, or visit www.millerwilliamslaw.com.
About Girls in Tech and Girls in Tech LA
Girls in Tech is an organization and social network dedicated to the engagement, education and empowerment of intelligent and influential women in technology. As such, Girls in Tech works to encourage the collaboration, promotion, growth and success of women in the technology sector.
Girls in Tech aims to offer a variety of resources and tools for women to supplement and enhance their careers and aspirations. Girls in Tech offers everything from educational workshops and lectures, to networking functions, round table discussions, conferences, social engagements, and recruitment events. Girls in Tech also publishes a popular site where members discuss all aspects of technology, as well as their unique experiences as women in the industry.
Girls in Tech LA members include influential women in a wide variety of industries, including social media, technology, public relations, gaming, entertainment and business. From entrepreneurs to executives, the GIT LA membership runs the gamut of smart, successful women. GIT LA sponsors gain the eyes and ears of these influencers, and are promoted via GIT LA’s proprietary social and traditional media properties, as well as the highly influential properties of GIT LA’s members. Past and present event partners include Women in Technology International, DM2 Events, Stila Cosmetics, Dermalogica, GlamourGals, New Beauty Magazine, Marani Vodka, Pinky Vodka Her Energy and countless others.
For more information about Girls in Tech or Girls in Tech LA, contact Mollie Vandor, Media Director for Girls in Tech LA and Product Manager for Ranker.com , at (310) 925-0119, mollievandor@girlsintech.net, or @mollieroserv.
