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Law Offices of Timothy Bowles, P.C.

This firm specializes in employment law and litigation for employers. Our goal is to enable clients to pursue their worthwhile ends by constructive and ethical means. We are committed to providing professional skills and results of the highest caliber.

This law practice represents employers in government agency actions and civil cases, including defense of workplace discrimination, harassment and retaliation claims. We have successfully handled matters alleging racial, religious, age and gender discrimination in the workplace. We also perform the preventative work of helping clients establish and maintain sensible workplace policies which promote staff initiative and company stability.

The firm also handles a wide range of civil litigation, including civil rights, contract and trade secret disputes. This law practice is expanding into prosecution of psychiatric abuse litigation, including fraud, assault, and malpractice cases.

Only in rare instances does the firm represent employees in resolving workplace-related disputes. On inquiry from employees, the firm will apply its best efforts to refer them to other counsel that specialize in such representation.

Similarly, for specialty areas in which we do not practice, we refer inquiring public to other lawyers to outside the office with experience in those spheres. Such areas include but are not limited to family disputes, immigration, tax, intellectual property, and criminal matters.

Other than psychiatrically related work, this office does not handle personal injury claims.

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PRE-EMPLOYMENT BACKGROUND CHECKS

CALIFORNIA'S NEW EMPLOYMENT LAWS

RUDE, CRUDE AND SOCIALLY UNACCEPTABLE

ARBITRATION OF EMPLOYMENT DISPUTES

Legal News

Employers Must Obtain Applicant's Written Consent and Provide Several Precise Notices

It sometimes takes hard experience to convince an employer to run background checks on applicants seriously under consideration for key positions in the company.

In December, 2008, the IRS filed a complaint against a Fry Electronics vice president alleging the VP had embezzled more than $65 million over several years through a kickback scheme he had engineered from his office at Fry's headquarters in San Jose, California. The VP allegedly routed the money to casinos in Las Vegas where he already had a reputation with police and casinos for his high stakes blackjack play. Demian Bulwa, Matthew B. Stannard, "Fry's Exec Dropped Millions on Gambling," San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 24, 2008. Background checks conducted by Fry's would potentially have uncovered his history of gambling and lavish lifestyle not in sync with his salary.

In another instance, a California business preparing to defend an employment-related lawsuit found in the public records a civil complaint - filed against a prior employer just a few years previously - that was in many respects identical to the allegations this later employer was now facing.

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