Articles

Read articles authored by DFEH staff and others. 

• State Bar Honors Phyllis Cheng as 2012 Public Lawyer of the Year
  Read the California State Bar Public Law Journal article reprint.
• 2012 Ronald M. George Public Lawer of the Year Award - Remarks of Award Recipient Phyllis Cheng
  Read the California State Bar Public Law Journal article reprint.
• Transformative Year for Civil Rights in California  
  Read Phyllis Cheng's Daily Journal article on the coming changes under Senate Bill 1038.  
• DFEH Update: How DFEH Manages to Soar in the Age of Austerity  
  Read Phyllis Cheng's article on the DFEH doing more with less. 
• Profile: Phyllis Cheng 
  Read Matt Jedreski's profile of DFEH Director Phyllis Cheng. 
• Rulemaking and Mediating at the Department of Fair Employment and Housing 
  Read Annmarie Billotti's article on the new DFEH Procedural Regulations and the work of the Department's Mediation Division.
• Building a Better Fair Housing Practice in California
  Read Phyllis Cheng's article on recent amendments to strengthen California's Fair Employment and Housing Act and Unruh Civil Rigths Act to bring them into substantail equivalency with federal law.
• How to Make Your Law Firm Accessible to People with Disabilities
  What every lawyer needs to know about providing legal services without discrimination by Andrew Mudryk, David Raizman, and Susan Saylor.
• Through Struggle to the Stars
  A History of California's Fair Housing Law, by Ann M. Noel and Phyllis W. Cheng.
• Anatomy of A Fair Housing Case
  What every lawyer needs to know about providing legal services without discrimination by Annmarie Billotti, Susan Saylor and R. Sybil Villanueva.
• Playing House at the Bar
  Read Phyllis Cheng's article "Playing House at the Bar."
• Avoid Fair Housing Pitfalls
  Read Beth Rosen-Prinz's article "Avoid Fair Housing Pitfalls."
• A Phoenix Rises from the Budgetary Ashes
  Read Phyllis Cheng's article.
• California Layoff Basics-Two Perpectives
  Co-authored by Annmarie Billotti.
• Cal Lab & Employ Law Review FEHA by Numbers Reprint
  Read Cal Lab & Employ Law Review FEHA by Numbers Reprint.
• Cal. Lab & Employ Law Review FEHA Hist Makers Reprint
  Read Cal. Lab & Employ Law Review FEHA Hist Makers Reprint.
• Cal Lab & Emp Law Rev Celebrating 50 Yrs Reprint
  Read Cal Lab & Emp Law Rev Celebrating 50 Yrs Reprint.
• Bender's Cal Labor & Employment Bulletin
  Read Cal Lab & Emp Law Rev Celebrating 50 Yrs Reprint.