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October 16, 2019

Grasso Trades Posts in Statewide Lawyer Group

    Boxer & Gerson Partner Maria Grasso had about 90 minutes between leadership positions with the California Lawyers Association (CLA) last weekend as the organization held its annual meeting in Monterey. Grasso no sooner completed her one-year term as Chair of CLA’S Workers’ Compensation Section Executive Committee at 1 p.m. than she was sworn […]


October 1, 2019

B&G Duffers Tee Off With Teamsters

Two Boxer & Gerson attorneys took to the links last week on the Monterey Peninsula to lend the firm’s support to the Teamsters Joint Council 7 All Charities Golf Tournament. Managing Partner Justin Litvack and Partner Gary Lee (left to right above) teamed up for the 18-hole tour of Black Horse Golf Course, perched on […]


September 18, 2019

Grasso Named Workers’ Comp Attorney for SF Mexican Consulate

Boxer & Gerson Partner Maria Grasso was appointed last month to the official position of Consulate Attorney (“Abogado Consultor”) for the Mexican Consulate of San Francisco.  The event was marked by a small ceremony kicking off the consulate’s annual Labor Rights Week observance that ran from Monday August 26 through Friday August 30. Grasso has a […]


August 30, 2019

The California Legislature Should Vote to Pass AB 5

Julius Young sounds off on the urgent need to pass AB5, a California Assembly bill to begin offering “gig economy” workers some of the same rights and benefits afforded to regular employees:


August 13, 2019

Boxer & Gerson Summer Intern Has Eye on Lawyering

First child in her nuclear family to leave home. First one in her extended family to go to college. With both parents working demanding, physically taxing jobs and money tight, charged with “becoming an adult” by helping to care for her younger brother and sister while a high school student at age 15. These tales […]


July 30, 2019

Boxer & Gerson Makes Annual Presentation to AFSCME Local 3299 

For the fourth consecutive year, the University of California’s largest employee union, Local 3299 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), invited Boxer & Gerson Certified Workers’ Compensation Specialist Maria Grasso to help educate the union’s Member Action Team (MAT) on the finer points of workers’ comp, which team members in turn use to […]


June 18, 2019

Nakano Leads B&G Chefs to Medal Round At Bonta Chili-Cookoff 

Boxer & Gerson’s veteran culinary crew came up big again in California Assemblymember Rob Bonta’s 7th Annual Chili Cook-0ff on June 8. Chili maven Hillary Nakano (to the right of Bonta in the photo) parlayed an old recipe she continues to tweak every year into a third-place finish at the perennially high-spirited event, just a […]