Solutions at the speed of now

Serial entrepreneur and corporate lawyer Brent Reinke has joined Stradling as a shareholder in the firm’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group. Mr. Reinke will be based in the firm’s newly opened Westlake Village office.

In 2018, California enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), becoming the first state in the country to pass comprehensive consumer privacy legislation. Following voter approval of Proposition 24 last year, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) enacted a slew of amendments to the CCPA, including creation of the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), which will have broad rulemaking, auditing, investigative and administrative enforcement power.  The agency’s enforcement power will take effect on July 1, 2023. 

California’s new supplemental sick leave requirement, effective March 29, 2021 and yet retroactive to January 1, effectively supersedes the FFCRA provided sick leave for most employments, adding broader supplemental sick leave benefits. 

As COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions continue to be enforced across the country, consumers are becoming more reliant on delivery services like Amazon Prime, Walmart’s Delivery Unlimited, Instacart, and others for everything from basic goods to groceries.  These tech oriented delivery services have traditionally been the exclusive domain of millennials, but have become household names with older demographics like Baby Boomers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and their growing popularity has unfortunately (perhaps unfairly) resulted in heightened scrutiny from government regulators.