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Leonora M. Schloss

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Lenny Schloss brings to bear her 30 + years of experience as a labor and employment attorney to provide employers with effective legal advice and business-oriented solutions to help them achieve their objectives in a cost-effective manner. Lenny works every day to deliver results that exceed her clients' expectations.

Lenny’s legal experience extends beyond her 30 + years in practice. Her first exposure to the law—and a key motivating factor in her choosing law as a profession—was navigating legal documents for her family as a first-generation American with parents who fled from Eastern Europe during World War II. It was that experience that influenced her dedication to ensuring a practical approach to solving problems for clients and her proactive client service mindset on every matter.

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As the state of California approaches one year of being under various shelter-in-place orders, the Labor & Workforce Development Agency and the Department of Industrial Relations have consolidated resources for employers into a new website. The site provides information on how to ensure a safer and healthier workplace. It also has information on handling…

Under the California Workers’ Compensation Act (“the Act”), employers must carry workers’ compensation insurance for employee injuries or illnesses which “arise out of and in the course of” employment. The Act, first passed in 1911 and amended over the years by the Legislature, provides a comprehensive system for administering claims, including the provision of disability…

As shelter in place orders were rolled out in California, many businesses transitioned their workforce to remote work for the first time. Employers had to determine how to track hours worked or what qualified as a business expense. However, other unique questions arise with a remote workforce, such as how to handle employees using marijuana…