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Mar 25, 2021
On March 23, 2021, the Fulfill the Promise Coalition, which is a national group of parents, educators’ unions, and The Advocacy Institute, filed a Petition requesting the U.S. Department of Education issue Guidance to ensure that students with disabilities, particularly students of color, receive the supports and services they need to access a free and appropriate education as students return to schools full time after being unable to access some services and supports due to the pandemic. For decades systematic underfunding and understaffing of special education has meant that students with disabilities have not had the resources or the services … Continue reading
Feb 10, 2021
Bush Gottlieb is pleased to announce that Kirk M. Prestegard has joined the firm’s partnership, effective January 1, 2021. Kirk joined the firm as an associate in 2013, and represents labor and employee-benefit fund clients in a broad range of matters arising under ERISA, the LMRA, and other state and federal statutes. He also represents a variety of public and private sector multiemployer pension and health plans in compliance and governance matters, audits and collections, bankruptcy, and litigation issues. Mr. Prestegard primarily counsels unions in the entertainment industry, but also advocates for labor clients in transportation, healthcare, and agriculture. He … Continue reading
Sep 9, 2020
No one needs to be reminded that 2020 has posed unusual challenges — and opportunities to shine — for everyone who works for a living, and for those who work on behalf of others working for a living! Our firm worked hard to adapt and reshape its summer associate program to the remote office environment. We were gratified to welcome five summer associates from all over the country, and offer them intensive exposure to our varied practice and to the Los Angeles labor community, to provide dedicated mentoring from our seasoned hands and from associates as well, and to present … Continue reading
Jan 18, 2019
On December 6, 2018, the Los Angeles Alliance for the New Economy (“LAANE”) honored Bush Gottlieb with a City of Justice Award at its 25th annual awards dinner at the Beverly Hilton. Recognizing our firm’s near half-century history of achievement fighting for working people, unions and collectively-bargained health and pension funds connected to employees in all walks of life — from the fields to the flight deck, from public schools to the film studio, from port truck drivers to performers, from carwasheros to college professors, public and private, we have been privileged to serve, help and empower them to improve … Continue reading
Mar 13, 2018
GEFFNER, Leo March 10, 1928 – February 28, 2018 Beloved husband, brother, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather, Leo Geffner passed away peacefully in the early morning hours of Wednesday, February 28th, leaving behind an immeasurable legacy of good deeds. Leo was a lifelong Angeleno, who grew up in Echo Park and graduated from Hamilton High School. He earned a B.A. from UCLA in Political Science in 1949, and, three years later, an L.L.B. from Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1953, later making partner with the firm of Levy, DeRoy, Geffner and Van Bourg. In … Continue reading
Mar 2, 2018
We are saddened to report to friends of Bush Gottlieb, FKA Geffner & Bush, that our former partner, venerable labor lawyer Leo Geffner passed away on the morning of February 28, 2018, just shy of his 90th birthday. Leo worked tirelessly for organized labor and benefit plans representing sanitation workers, teachers, stage performers and musicians, motion picture and television crews and the actors performing in those productions. An old school labor advocate, Leo promoted workers’ interests at the bargaining table, in the courtroom, before administrative agencies, and in the legislative arena for over 50 years. In 1985, Leo successfully argued … Continue reading
Feb 26, 2018
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Jan 13, 2018
Bush Gottlieb has persuaded the United States District Court in San Diego to safeguard a public high school student athlete’s constitutional protest rights against a school’s attempt to prohibit him from kneeling during the playing of the National Anthem. The student, a Native American football and basketball player attending San Pasqual Valley High School in Winterhaven, California, wanted to kneel in protest of racial injustice. After the second football game in which the student kneeled, on the road in Mayer, Arizona, Mayer fans hurled racial insults at San Pasqual players. In reaction to that incident, the San Pasqual School District … Continue reading
May 30, 2017
Partner Josh Adams spoke at the AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee Conference in May. His panel focused on how labor unions should approach investigations by the U.S. Department of Labor into internal union affairs, including officer elections.