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Bay Area-based trial law firm Lafayette & Kumagai LLP announced that it will expand into Southern California with a historic merger with Sanders Roberts LLP, a diversified firm with a strong focus on litigation and transactional matters. Sanders Roberts is the United States’ largest and one of its fastest-growing Black-owned law firms. Both Black-owned firms
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Gary Lafayette is attending the NAMWOLF Annual Meeting September 10 – 13 in Baltimore, MD. The NAMWOLF Annual Meeting & Virtual Law Firm Expo is a three-day conference that offers unique opportunities to connect corporate counsel from Fortune 1000 companies with minority and women owned law firms. The event will also provide exceptional continuing legal
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Lafayette & Kumagai LLP Attorneys Named to 2023 Northern California Super Lawyers List We are pleased to announce that Gary Lafayette, Susan Kumagai, and Diane Kong have been selected to the 2023 Super Lawyers list for Northern California. This is an exclusive list, recognizing no more than five percent of attorneys in the state. Super
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Lafayette & Kumagai partner, Gary Lafayette, will attend the 43rd Annual National Bar Association Mid-Year Conference and Black Law Firm Showcase April 27-30, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky. The Black Law Firm Showcase is a partnership with the National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms (NAMWOLF), whose mission is to promote diversity in the
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Lafayette & Kumagai Partner, Gary Lafayette, is excited to attend the 46th Annual CABL Conference and Awards Gala, April 20 – 23 in Los Angeles, California. The conference recognizes exceptional legal professionals who’ve made a positive impact in their communities. The California Association of Black Law Firms (CABL), an affiliate of the National Bar Association,
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Gary Lafayette, Partner at Lafayette & Kumagai, was recently quoted in a news article about potential mass layoffs. He provides valuable insights and commentary on how employers must comply with legal obligations to employees, under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act. The WARN Act, passed by Congress in 1988, helps ensure advance notice
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Kudos to Brian Chun and Gary Lafayette! The California Court of Appeal affirmed the Superior Court’s grant of summary judgment for Lafayette & Kumagai’s clients, a Fortune 50 company and an individual defendant. In his underlying case, Plaintiff alleged discrimination based on his race and national origin, defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful
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Gary Lafayette To Speak at CMCP 2022!

  • October 13, 2022
  • by admin
Gary Lafayette will speak at the California Minority Counsel Program’s 2022 Annual Business Conference in Los Angeles at 2 pm on Thursday, October 13, 2022. Gary will be a panelist for the session, “Off the Record: The Real Experience of POC Attorneys,” a panel discussion on the experiences attorneys of color have within the workplace.
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