Creating and using a new DoorDash account after Jan. 1st may allow Dashers to preserve their rights to sue in court and participate in a class action under a new California law. Going… Read more »
DoorDash drivers are increasingly worried about the company’s new payment model, which will finish rolling out by January 2020, according to Gizmodo. Their concerns focus on the company’s removal of the “total earnings”… Read more »
A new federal lawsuit has been filed, accusing GPB Capital Holdings of operating a $1.8 Billion Ponzi scheme. According to the Portland Press Herald, the lawsuit claims that GPB has been paying investors… Read more »
Gibbs Law Group attorney Andre Mura presented on December 9-10, 2019 at the “Practising Law Institute- 25th Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute.” The seminar brought together faculty representing a wide range of perspectives,… Read more »
Three women have revealed their identities and spoken out on the TODAY Show about the sexual abuse they claim to have endured as patients of Dr. James Heaps. Dr. Heaps, an OB-GYN who… Read more »
The UCLA Title IX office recently finalized a report concluding that Dr. James Heaps‘ behavior constituted sexual assault and harassment, according to UCLA’s newspaper, the Daily Bruin. The report comes from the Title… Read more »
After missing its September 30, 2019 deadline, GPB informed investors that it should have its audited financial statements ready for release by December 31st. But GPB Capital has now stated that it will… Read more »
Dashers have 30 days from when they click “Agree” to DoorDash’s new form contract to opt out of arbitration and preserve their right to go to court and participate in a class action.… Read more »
In October 2019, a judge in California approved the payment of $12 million for a class action lawsuit against Safeway on behalf of checkout clerks, who argued that Safeway was violating state law… Read more »
On September 18, 2019, California governor Gavin Newson signed into law a new piece of workers’ rights legislation- Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). This new law could potentially reclassify millions of independent contractors and… Read more »
Our law firm has filed numerous arbitrations against DoorDash on behalf DoorDash workers. We filed these with American Arbitration Association (AAA), as required by DoorDash’s “Independent Contractor” agreement. But DoorDash suddenly switched arbitration companies… Read more »
D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine filed a lawsuit against Doordash on November 19, 2019, alleging that the company engaged in “deceptive” practices of pocketing workers tips. According to the complaint, tips were largely… Read more »
In late 2019, the California legislature passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5), a bill designed to ensure that all workers are paid fairly, by preventing companies from inappropriately classifying their workers as independent contractors. … Read more »
New Jersey fined Uber nearly $650 million for unpaid taxes that Uber tried to avoid by classifying it’s workers as independent contractors, the NY Times reports. The gig economy companies, such as Uber,… Read more »
On November 12, 2019, Gibbs Law Group attorney, Jeff Kosbie, received the Minority Bar Coalition (MBC) Unity Award for his work as Co-Chair of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF). The award… Read more »
Gibbs Law Group partner Andre Mura will present and serves as a course advisor for the upcoming American Association for Justice (AAJ) two-day seminar on “Overcoming Obstructive Discovery.” The seminar, which will take… Read more »
Gibbs Law Group is excited to announce that the Daily Journal, California’s largest legal newspaper, has named our firm to its list of Top Boutique Law Firms in California for 2019. Recognized for… Read more »
Gibbs Law Group attorney, Jeff Kosbie, will participate on a panel discussion at the Bar Association of San Francisco (BASF)’s 7th Annual Citywide Diversity and Inclusion Networking Event and Panel Discussion on October… Read more »
In September 2019, gig economy workers congregated outside the San Francisco headquarters of DoorDash, Postmates, and Instacart to throw peanuts at the companies’ headquarters to symbolize the low-pay that these companies provide to… Read more »
A Lyft lawsuit recently made headlines, such as NBC’s headline: “Lyft fails to protect passengers against sexual assault and harassment, lawsuit claims.” Fourteen plaintiffs sued Lyft saying that the rideshare company has received… Read more »
