versatile expertise
Practice Areas and Representative Industries
Benjamin Law Offices specializes in the needs of businesses, employers and creditors throughout California, providing comprehensive general counsel and litigation services for companies in a wide range of industries.
Practice Areas
Business Law
We provide outside general counsel to California businesses at every stage of growth.
- Business start-up
- Legal compliance with California’s complex business laws
- Business counseling
- Transactions and corporate governance
- Mergers & acquisitions
- Business dissolution
- Business and business-adjacent litigation
Employment Law
We help employers minimize risk and defend their interests when disputes arise.
- Employee handbooks
- Counseling regarding hiring, termination, employee performance management and other HR issues and decisions
- Legal compliance with California’s complex employment laws
- Response to pre-litigation demand letters
- Defense of employee lawsuits based on, among other things, wage and hour law violations; meal and rest breaks; minimum wage; harassment, discrimination and retaliation; defamation and unfair business practices
- Defense of class action and PAGA lawsuits
Administrative Law
We interface with federal and state agencies to protect our clients’ rights and provide agile, experienced advocacy at administrative hearings.
- Obtainment of appropriate occupational or industry licenses
- Response to agency investigations and defense against agency accusations that could lead to discipline, suspension or revocation of a client’s occupational or industry license
- Advice for clients in complying with licensing and regulatory requirements
- Appearance at administrative hearings regarding claims for benefits, taxes or money damages
Benjamin Law Offices has appeared as counsel of record before all the following agencies:
Internal Revenue Service
U.S. Department of Labor
Franchise Tax Board
State Board of Equalization
Employment Development Department
California Department of Industrial Relations
Department of Fair Employment and Housing
Department of Labor Standards Enforcement
(aka the DLSE or Labor Commissioner)
Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board
(for unemployment and tax hearings)
Occupational Safety and Health Appeals Board
Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board
Department of Insurance
Board of Barbering and Cosmetology
Department of Real Estate
California Contractors’ State Licensing Board
Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control
Department of Cannabis Control
Department of Fish and Wildlife
Bureau of Automotive Repair
Creditor Representation
We help creditors protect their financial interests and pursue expedient and fair resolutions.
- Debtor/creditor workouts and debt restructuring
- Commercial collections
- Domestication and enforcement of sister-state judgments
- Enforcement of judgments including liens, levies, garnishments
- Creditor bankruptcy representation in Chapter 7, 11 and 13 cases
Appellate Law
We provide strategic legal analysis and persuasive advocacy throughout the challenging appeals process.
- Appeals of Federal District Court and Bankruptcy Court judgments
- Appeals of California State Court judgments
Consummately Knowledgeable
Our company and I were lucky enough to have found Steve and Benjamin Law Offices to advise us on an issue in 2011. Since then, whether we have had a general or specific business law question, Steve has been and is a consummately knowledgeable professional watching out for our business interests.
Mark S., president and owner of a full-service commercial door repair and installation company
Industries We Represent
Our substantial knowledge and experience representing clients in the following industries allows us to provide proactive, industry-specific legal counsel to help our clients succeed.
- Financial institutions/banking
- Retail
- Manufacturing
- Service
- Licensed industries and occupations:
- Automotive repair services
- Barbering and cosmetology
- Construction (CSLB Class A, B and C licensees)
- Healthcare (dentistry, physician, physician assistant, nursing, behavioral health, veterinary)
- Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHC)
- Homeowners’ association management companies
- Legal cannabis
- Real estate
- Restaurants, bars, nightclubs, liquor licensees
- Security guard services
- Transportation, including Federal Express independent service providers and subcontractors
- Professional corporations (e.g. accounting, architecture, attorneys, healthcare)
