Ms. Laura P. Worsinger

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  www.dykema.com/bio/display.asp?empID=677 - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 1/30/2009    Last Visited: 1/30/2009  

  Laura P. Worsinger
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  Ms. Worsinger has broad counseling and litigation experience. A significant part of her practice focuses on the representation of apparel industry manufacturers, designers, importers, and retailers. Her experience includes mergers and acquisitions, commercial law, debtor and creditor relations, financial and business planning, licensing, and regulatory compliance. She has also worked with government officials to amend the California garment laws.
  
  She also specializes in defense of apparel employers in cases involving discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, wage and hours, privacy and other employment-related proceedings. She represents clients before numerous state and federal courts and administrative agencies, including the DOL, the DLSE, the EEOC, the DFEH, and the EDD. Conducting workplace investigations and audits, she has helped many clients to avoid or defeat wage claims and discrimination, retaliation and harassment claims. She is a sex harassment trainer and advises clients on compliance with the ADA, the ADEA, FEHA, and Title VII. As a former official with the Federal Trade Commission, she has experience concerning state and federal advertising and trade laws, product labeling, the Can-Spam Act, retail sweepstakes and other promotional formats. She prepares on-line privacy policies, assists with e-commerce issues and advice on state and federal privacy laws. She has created simplified forms for manufacturers and written and lectured on regulatory compliance and security breach issues.

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  Published on: 1/2/2009    Last Visited: 1/2/2009  

  "The big thing for the garment industry this year is the Employee Free Choice Act, which will probably be passed by Congress," said Laura Worsinger, an attorney in the employment-practices group at Dykema Gossett in downtown Los Angeles.
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  "Basically, it makes it easier to form unions," Worsinger noted.

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  Published on: 5/13/2008    Last Visited: 2/27/2009  

  Labor attorney James W. Michalski left the boutique firm of Epstein Becker Green in order to join Jackson Lewis' Los Angeles office, while transactional attorney Laura P. Worsinger left Buchalter Nemer to join Dykema's Employment Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office.
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  Worsinger, who joined Dykema on May 1, said she is enjoying her new position. The former senior counsel at Buchalter said that her new title gave her "more authority," and "greater recognition" of her past experience and expertise.
  
  The main draw for her, she said was Dykema's national and global practice. "I wanted to be able to expand my practice and assist my clients with respect to issues that arise on a national and global basis, especially trade issues," she explained.
  
  Many of her clients are in the manufacturing industry, especially the apparel industry, she said, and she encounters many international legal issues, due in large part to global outsourcing. Wosinger opined that she has worked for most of the major apparel manufacturers in the Los Angeles area at one point in time.
  
  She follows in the footsteps of Karin Peterka, another former Buchalter attorney specializing in intellectual property, patents and trademarks, who moved to Dykema earlier this year. Worsinger said she and Peterka had worked together before, and "as a team, we provided full services to a lot of manufacturing and retail clients…. Now we're together again and can provide the same kind of service."
  
  Craig Hentschel, managing member of the Los Angeles office praised Worsinger's litigation and trade regulation expertise in a release, calling her an "outstanding attorney with a wealth of knowledge and experience," and "a significant addition" to the office.
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  Worsinger is a former assistant director for the Federal Trade Commission and staff attorney for J.C. Penney Company, Inc. She received her law degree from UCLA.

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  Published on: 5/13/2008    Last Visited: 5/14/2008  

  Labor attorney James W. Michalski left the boutique firm of Epstein Becker Green in order to join Jackson Lewis' Los Angeles office, while transactional attorney Laura P. Worsinger left Buchalter Nemer to join Dykema's Employment Practice Group in the firm's Los Angeles office.
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  Worsinger, who joined Dykema on May 1, said she is enjoying her new position.The former senior counsel at Buchalter said that her new title gave her "more authority," and "greater recognition" of her past experience and expertise.
  
  The main draw for her, she said was Dykema's national and global practice."I wanted to be able to expand my practice and assist my clients with respect to issues that arise on a national and global basis, especially trade issues," she explained.
  
  Many of her clients are in the manufacturing industry, especially the apparel industry, she said, and she encounters many international legal issues, due in large part to global outsourcing.Wosinger opined that she has worked for most of the major apparel manufacturers in the Los Angeles area at one point in time.
  
  She follows in the footsteps of Karin Peterka, another former Buchalter attorney specializing in intellectual property, patents and trademarks, who moved to Dykema earlier this year.Worsinger said she and Peterka had worked together before, and "as a team, we provided full services to a lot of manufacturing and retail clients ...Now we're together again and can provide the same kind of service."
  
  Craig Hentschel, managing member of the Los Angeles office praised Worsinger's litigation and trade regulation expertise in a release, calling her an "outstanding attorney with a wealth of knowledge and experience," and "a significant addition" to the office.
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  Worsinger is a former assistant director for the Federal Trade Commission and staff attorney for J.C. Penney Company, Inc.She received her law degree from UCLA.

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  Published on: 4/30/2006    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  Laura P. WorsingerAttorney Laura Worsinger, Buchalter Nemer Fields & Younger, Los Angeles, California
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  Laura Worsinger
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  Laura P. Worsinger
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  Laura Worsinger is a Senior Counsel in the Los Angeles office.She is a member of the Business Practices Group, specializing in employment and regulatory law.Ms. Worsinger has litigated numerous labor disputes, monitored labor law compliance and advised retail and manufacturing clients on all facets of employer/employee relations.This includes wage and hours law, sexual harassment, age, race and sex discrimination, pregnancy issues and privacy law.She has represented clients before numerous state and federal agencies including the DOL, the DLSE, the EEOC, the California Attorney General, and the FTC.
  
  Working closely with business clients she has prepared employment agreements, consulting contracts, severance agreements, and contractor agreements.She advises clients in the preparation of personnel policies and strategies, and lectures on current issues in labor and employment law.
  
  As a former Assistant Director of the FTC and staff attorney for JC Penney, Ms. Worsinger has advised clients on trade regulation matters, including labeling and advertising law, trade regulation, telemarketing, antitrust and deceptive practices.She also practiced legislative advocacy, drafting bills and has lectured and written articles on trade restraint and marketing, and employment issues.
  
  She has also written and lectured on labor and employment issues applicable to the manufacturing and financial services industries.
  
  Ms. Worsinger earned her J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1971.

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  Published on: 3/1/2006    Last Visited: 3/13/2007  

  Laura P. Worsinger, Esq., Senior Counsel, Buchalter Nemer, CMBA Member
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  Laura P. Worsinger, Esq., Senior Counsel, Buchalter Nemer, CMBA Member
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  *Ms. Worsinger is Senior Counsel at Buchalter Nemer in Los Angeles . Her practice involves all aspects of employment counseling litigation and practice before Federal and State Agencies.Telephone: (213) 891-5021, Facsimile: (213) 630-5683 lworsinger@buchalter.com

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  Published on: 7/1/2007    Last Visited: 12/18/2007  

  By Benjamin S. Seigel, Esq. and Laura P. Worsinger, Esq. July 2007

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  Published on: 4/29/2008    Last Visited: 4/29/2008  

  Laura P. Worsinger
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  Laura Worsinger is a Senior Counsel in the Los Angeles office.She is a member of the Business Practices Group, specializing in employment and regulatory law.Ms. Worsinger has litigated numerous labor disputes, monitored labor law compliance and advised retail and manufacturing clients on all facets of employer/employee relations.This includes wage and hours law, sexual harassment, age, race and sex discrimination, pregnancy issues and privacy law.She has represented clients before numerous state and federal agencies including the DOL, the DLSE, the EEOC, the California Attorney General, and the FTC.
  
  Working closely with business clients she has prepared employment agreements, consulting contracts, severance agreements, and contractor agreements.She advises clients in the preparation of personnel policies and strategies, and lectures on current issues in labor and employment law.
  
  As a former Assistant Director of the FTC and staff attorney for JC Penney, Ms. Worsinger has advised clients on trade regulation matters, including labeling and advertising law, trade regulation, telemarketing, antitrust and deceptive practices.She also practiced legislative advocacy, drafting bills and has lectured and written articles on trade restraint and marketing, and employment issues.
  
  She has also written and lectured on labor and employment issues applicable to the manufacturing and financial services industries.
  
  Ms. Worsinger earned her J.D. from UCLA Law School in 1971.

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  Laura P. WorsingerSenior Counsel

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  Beware, The Contractor Trap - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/18/2005    Last Visited: 10/14/2006  

  When the IRS does find out, the cost is typically $20,000 to $30,000 per employee, according to Laura Worsinger, senior counsel for Buchalter, Nember, Field & Younger, a Los Angeles-based law firm.Plus, an investigation of one case can pique the IRS auditors' interest,and inspire an investigation of all your tax practices.
  
  Determining whether or not someone is legitimately an independent "is an art, not a science," says Worsinger.The IRS publishes a list of rules. that businesses must meet, most of which focus on how much control the company exerts over an individual's work.If, for example, the company sets the worker's hours, then he or she probably would be deemed an employee.If the worker can be fired for other than nonperformance of duties specified in a contract, then he might be classified an employee.
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  Worsinger recalls the case of a 50-employee garment manufacturer that hired a highly skilled salesperson, who asked to be paid as an independent contractor.He wanted to hide his earnings from his soon-to-be-ex.Four years later, the company fired the man, who promptly sued, charging that he had been incorrectly paid as a 1099 worker.The company's defense,that the employee had requested the contractor arrangement--failed.The IRS said the salesman had functioned as a fulltime employee and the company wound up paying him about $40,000.
  
  The garment maker learned what employment-law experts know: Disgruntled former contractors are the most common source of IRS audits, according to Worsinger.

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