Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick is at the forefront of legal issues impacting the transportation industry, with decades of experience representing companies large and small in California and across the country. Transportation is a heavily regulated industry that faces constant and confusing changes in municipal, state, and federal laws and regulations. Our team understands and appreciates the nuanced challenges transportation companies face, and our attorneys work side-by-side with clients to resolve all kinds of legal matters, such as employment disputes, including class action and PAGA claims, contractual obligation disagreements, ownership issues, battles with regulatory bodies, and other types of civil litigation.
Understanding you and your business puts our team in the best position to provide customized and practical legal guidance, and our vast experience representing and counseling transportation companies gives us in-depth insight into your particular legal needs. Our extensive transportation-related background offers an unparallel advantage to on-demand transportation services, limousine, shuttle and paratransit companies, public transportation providers, taxi services, and governmental transit authorities.
The Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick team is all aspects of claims arising in the transportation industry, including employment law claims, PAGA actions, class actions, personal injury claims, regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, trademark disputes, and unfair business claims. And we have a proven record of success.
In addition to our litigation work, we counsel business owners and entrepreneurs in the transportation industry on new entity formation and entity selection and regulatory compliance. On a daily basis, we advise transportation industry clients on employment law matters and risk management strategies, including drafting independent contractor and service provider agreements, employment agreements, as well as confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements.
Our attorneys routinely work with businesses on regulatory compliance related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA), EEOC / DFEH / CRD/ EDD / DLSE / WCAB / DOL, employee benefits, equal employment opportunity (EEO), family and medical leaves (FMLA / CFRA) information retention policies and related issues, insurance, local taxi cab licensing and regulation, privacy rights, state and federal transportation regulations (including California Public Utilities Commission – PUC), time-off policies, wage and hour and classification issues, workers compensation, and workplace safety and health (OSHA). We also prepare contracts, leases, and other service provider agreements designed to provide the highest level of protection and enable you to achieve your strategic commercial goals.
The Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick transportation industry group has a profound understanding of the regulations that affect and control your industry, and we know how to address issues in a strategic and efficient manner that protects you and your company. From our considerable transportation industry knowledge, Dunn DeSantis Walt & Kendrick attorneys are frequent speakers at industry conferences throughout the country and are asked to contribute to legal and transportation industry publications.