Brad S Kane
Kane Law Firm understands your problem is more than a legal transaction
Brad S. Kane has practiced law for more than twenty years in California, Washington, and Alaska. After a decade-long career in “Big Law,” in 2001 Mr. Kane started the Kane Law Firm, a Los Angeles-based practice. Mr. Kane takes a unique, humanistic approach with clients, always keeping the client engaged in their case and counseling clients toward fair and reasonable solutions to often emotional and complex problems.
The Kane Law Firm follows Mr. Kane’s interdisciplinary approach to law and avoids the often myopic “over-specialization” or one-sided thinking caused by only representing one side to a particular kind of dispute. For example, Mr. Kane regularly counsels and represents small and medium sized employers on the handling of employee disputes, while also representing aggrieved employees with serious claims against their own employers.
As a result, Mr. Kane is constantly searching for outside the box solutions to litigation and negotiations in areas spanning employment law, entertainment, insurance coverage, as well as business and corporation litigation. In fact, Mr. Kane has a reputation amongst his associates and colleagues of “taking cases no one else would take” and turning them into gold.
Finally, Mr. Kane has an unshakable faith in our justice system derived from his experience clerking for Alaska Supreme Court Chief Justice Jay A. Rabinowitz, his experience as a lawyer, and serving over 250 times as a Judge Pro Tem. To Mr. Kane, the judicial system holds a unique ability to shape a person’s world view and how people see themselves. Mr. Kane earned his J.D. from Hastings College of the Law and his B.A. in history from University of California Los Angeles.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Litigation, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Employment Law
- Employee Benefits, Employment Contracts, Employment Discrimination, Overtime & Unpaid Wages, Sexual Harassment, Whistleblower, Wrongful Termination
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation
- General Civil
- Free Consultation
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Contingent Fees
- Alaska
- Alaska Bar Association
- ID Number: 9111089
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- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 151547
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- Washington
- Washington State Bar Association
- ID Number: 33552
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Owner
- Kane Law Firm
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- General Counsel
- Kane Automotive Group
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- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- J.D.
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- University of California - Los Angeles
- B.A.
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- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Client's Choice Award 2021
- Avvo
- Five 5-star reviews on Avvo.com
- Top Contributor Award
- AVVO
- Top Contributor Award
- Avvo
- Washington State Bar Association # 33552
- Member
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- President of the South Carthay Neighborhood Association and the P.I.C.O. Neighborhood Council, Town Hall Meeting Opposing SB50, Los Angeles, CA
- In his own remarks, Kane presented a list of 12 potential alternatives to SB 50, which he said could be much more effective at addressing our current housing issues.
- Are LA’s New Luxury Apartments Just Sitting Empty?, Los Angeles, CA
- KCRW Design and Architecture
- An eye-opening interview shedding light on how thousands of people are living on the streets of Los Angeles while 100,000 apartment units are reportedly sitting empty throughout the city.
- CBS Radio KNX Interview - Employer/Employee Laws, Los Angeles, CA
- CBS News Radio
- Interview on Portugal's law penalizing employers for contacting employees outside of office hours
Unpaid Models Why I Do This?
- Q. Can I sue my employer in California for not firing an employee who sexually assaulted me?
- A: You can sue both your employer for not taking appropriate corrective action, such as firing the harasser or at least separating you and the harasser. In addition, you can sue the harasser personally. Please keep detailed written records. You should tell your employer in writing that you feel threatened by the presence of the harasser and ask that at least you be separated.
- Q. Can a California employee be personally sued for a guest's injury?
- A: Anyone can be sued for anything.
You are sued for activities performed within the course and scope of your job and the injury was not intentional, the employer has a legal obligation to indemnify you for reasonable and necessary expenses, including the costs of defending the claim or paying the award or settlement.
Typically, when someone sues both the employer and an employee, it often makes sense to have the same law firm represent both interests provided there is no actual conflict. Example of actual conflicts where the same law firm cannot represent both the employer and employee would be the employer asserting that you were not acting in the course and scope of your work or you intentional ... Read More
- Q. Can I negotiate a stronger severance or return to work with legal leverage in WA, and does accepting severance waive my L&I protections?
- A: A severance agreement is normally intended to resolve all of an employee's potential claims, except those claims that cannot be waived as a matter of law. Examples would be worker's compensation and unemployment claims.
Further, Washington's silenced no more act prohibits nondisclosure or nondisparagement provisions which restrict employees from disclosing or discussing violations of clear mandates of public policy, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and wage and hour infractions.
You can ask for a larger severance. It is a negotiation. If you do not accept the severance and return to work, you carefully document in each potential retaliatory act by the employer.
