Community Perspectives
BABC President Colin Brown on the radio
BABC Northern California President Colin Brown was interviewed on KGO 810 Radio on Tuesday April 17 ahead of our Emergency Preparedness Planning Seminar at the Hotel Whitcomb.
Click through to listen to their news report about the event!
Changes to Employment Law
BABC Board member, Gillian Ross, reminds member companies that there are a number of new employment laws that became effective in January 2012. She frequently takes her Annual Employment Law Update into companies’ human resource departments for educational seminars, in addition to presenting the bi-annual sexual harassment prevention training for supervisors, which is required of all companies with more than 50 employees.
New team for San Francisco based Olympic Atlantic Row
The OAR Project, which is being launched at a BABC event to mark the start of Britweek on April 23rd, has just announced a new team line up for its epic row across the Atlantic.
Roz Savage, a former management consultant who already holds four world ocean rowing records, will now be joining Andrew Morris to cross from Canada to the UK, in time for the start of the 2012 Olympic Games. This is the world’s first attempt to cross the North Atlantic from Newfoundland to Bristol, and then on to London via the UK’s inland waterways. The pair will also be the first mixed gender team to cross the North Atlantic.
Roz has replaced Mick Dawson, who has been unable to devote sufficient time to prepare to the voyage due to work commitments fighting pirates in the Marine Security Industry.
The boat, Bojangles, is currently being refitted as a live working exhibit at the San Francisco National Historical Park on Hyde Street Pier.
SF Law Firm Gains New Partner
New BABC member Putterman, Logan And Giles welcomed a new partner late last year after meeting him on the opposing side of a contentious litigation.
Lawyers Bill Logan and Anthony Giles, of Logan & Giles LLP, representing the beneficiary of a large trust against the two trustees (a major bank and an individual), knew they were in for a real fight when the individual trustee retained Don Putterman, a veteran trial lawyer renowned for his thoroughness and imaginative litigation skills.
Putterman, then a partner in the San Francisco office of a large New York law firm, plunged into the case with his customary enthusiastic aggression. He quickly realized that his client would benefit from a reframing of the case, realigning his client’s interests with those of the beneficiary and “ganging up” on the bank.
