Teukolsky Law, APC

06/05/2025

The LA Times covered a new lawsuit Teukolsky Law filed earlier today against Terranea Resort on behalf of its former Chief Marketing Officer who alleges he was fired for standing up for the rights of the pregnant women and young working moms on his team.

Sexism in the workplace takes many forms. Our client sacrificed his job protecting the women he supervised. It is an honor and privilege to represent him.

A former marketing executive alleged he was fired after opposing discriminatory comments made by Terranea Resort president Ralph Grippo.

05/12/2025

Forced arbitration continues to be a thorn in the side of civil rights lawyers who want to vindicate their clients' rights in a real courtroom, not a hotel conference room. Fortunately, there is a 2022 federal law that exempts sexual harassment claims from arbitration (it's called "EFAA" for short).

Lauren Teukolsky was recently quoted in a Bloomberg Law article discussing the proper procedural mechanisms that employers should use when seeking to compel potentially exempt claims to arbitration. Read more on our blog.

Lauren Teukolsky was quoted in a May 9 Bloomberg Law article on the growing split among federal district courts over how to interpret the Ending Forced Arbitration Act (EFAA). The 2022 law protects workers alleging sexual harassment of assault from mandat

03/29/2023

Lauren Teukolsky’s commentary was featured in a recent Law360 article on the Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling that California’s A.B. 51 is preempted by federal law. Read more on our firm's blog.

Lauren Teukolsky’s commentary was featured in a recent Law360 article on the Ninth Circuit’s recent ruling that California’s A.B. 51 is preempted by federal law. AB 51 prohibited employers from forcing employees to give up their civil rights, such as the

01/31/2023

The Guardian published an article last Friday about a pair of lawsuits filed by Teukolsky Law alleging that Los Serranos Golf Club repeatedly failed to protect four young women from a sexual harasser who worked as the club’s executive chef for more than two decades. Read more on our blog.

The Guardian published an article last Friday about a pair of high-profile lawsuits alleging that Los Serranos Golf Club repeatedly failed to protect four young women from a sexual harasser who worked as the club’s executive chef for more than two decades

01/05/2023

The Daily Journal recently published a thoughtful article discussing the status of PAGA in the wake of the Viking River Cruises decision. Lauren Teukolsky provided some statistics showing the disparity between state and federal courts in their post-Viking approach to PAGA claims. Read more on our firm's blog.

In December, Lauren Teukolsky was quoted in a Daily Journal article discussing the future of California’s Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) in 2023.

11/29/2022

Calling all LA lawyers! Lauren Teukolsky will be speaking at an in-person event for the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA) this Saturday, December 3 at 2pm in Century City about litigating PAGA cases in the wake of Viking River. She will share her analysis of 75 trial court orders on post-Viking motions to compel, 5 post-Viking decisions from the Court of Appeals, and the briefing to date in Adolph v Uber.

Arbitrators Deborah Saxe and Judge Amy Hogue (ret.) will also be discussing their expectations for parties arbitrating "individual" PAGA cases in the wake of Viking River. The program will be followed by a networking cocktail hour. Sign up today!

11/10/2022

Viking River Cruises v Moriana was a landmark decision about the future of Private Attorneys General Act cases on behalf of workers. Lauren Teukolsky has performed an extensive analysis of trial court orders deciding motions to compel arbitration in the post-Viking world. Read her analysis in the link.

For anyone following the impact of Viking River Cruises on PAGA claims, this post is for you. Law nerds unite! I have now analyzed 49 trial court orders on…

10/12/2022

2022 was a big year for employment law in California, with Governor Newsom signing a slew of employment bills that will improve protections and conditions for workers. The new laws cover diverse topics like pay transparency and off-duty consumption of cannabis. Read more on our firm blog.

2022 was a big year for employment law in California, with Governor Gavin Newsom signing a slew of employment bills into law that will improve protections and conditions for the state’s workers. Now that the Governor has finished signing new laws for the

09/29/2022

Earlier this week, Gov. Newsom signed SB1162 into law. The bill requires companies of 100 or more employees to submit annual reports to the state detailing the mean and median pay of their employees by race and gender. Companies with 15 or more employees must include salary ranges in their job postings, and must provide current employees with the salary ranges of their jobs and maintain job title and wage history for every employee. Read more about the new law on our blog.

On Tuesday, September 27, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed S.B. 1162 into law, requiring companies of 100 or more employees to submit annual reports detailing the mean and median pay of their employees by race and gender to California’s Civil Right

09/21/2022

Lauren Teukolsky was quoted in a September 19th article by Bloomberg Law on AB 2188, a recently signed bill in California that prohibits employers from discriminating against workers who use cannabis in their off-work hours. Once the bill goes into effect on January 1, 2024, it will be illegal for California employers to make any employment decisions based on an employee’s use of cannabis “off the job and away from the workplace.”

Lauren Teukolsky was quoted in a September 19th article by Bloomberg Law on AB 2188, a recently signed bill in California that prohibits employers from discriminating against workers who use cannabis in their off-work hours. Once the bill goes into effect

09/15/2022

On Labor Day, Governor Newsom signed AB 257 into law. The bill, also known as the FAST Recovery Act, is aimed at raising wages and improving the working conditions of California’s more than 550,000 fast-food workers by establishing a new state council with the power to set state-wide minimum standards for the fast-food industry.

The bill also improves the collective bargaining power of fast-food workers across California. Read more about this historic bill on our blog:

On Labor Day, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 257 into law. The bill, also known as the FAST Recovery Act, is aimed at raising wages and improving the working conditions of California’s more than 550,000 fast-food workers by establishing a new

09/01/2022

The City of Los Angeles recently enacted the Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance, which requires hotels to provide "panic buttons" to hotel workers, and also ensures a reasonable workload for room attendants who clean rooms. Lauren Teukolsky is quoted in a Law360 article (sadly behind a paywall) discussing the ordinance. Read more on our firm's blog.

Lauren Teukolsky was quoted in an August 26th article by Law360 about the Hotel Worker Protection Ordinance (HWPO) that recently went into effect in Los Angeles on August 12th. The ordinance seeks to protect Los Angeles’ hotel workers by mandating extra c