For California employment attorneys
You handle the law. We handle the HR.
Every month we audit California employers who do not have a lawyer. Those audits turn up wage and hour exposure, terminations that went sideways, and policies that need a legal read, and those employers ask us who to call. We only name attorneys we have worked with. It works the other direction too: we do the HR work behind your advice, under your lead, and we never give legal advice.
Thirty minutes with Becky Barton, who has run People415 since 2016. No pitch deck, just whether our clients need a lawyer and yours need HR help.
Our firm has partnered with People415 on various clients from service firms to tech companies and hospitality groups. My clients feel comfortable calling them with any question relevant to daily human resources management, employee benefits, performance management, audits, recruiting and more.
Krista MitzelEmployment law firm, ProVisors. Five-star Google review.
The clients we send you
The employers we audit usually have no counsel, and an audit is where the problems surface. When one needs a lawyer, we make the introduction, and the list we pick from is short on purpose. No fees in either direction.
- Wage and hour findings that need a legal read
- Terminations and investigations that have gone sideways
- Handbook provisions that need counsel to sign off
- Employers who just got a notice and have nobody
What we do for the clients you send us
The operational work that sits underneath your advice. Done by HR people, documented so it holds up.
HR audit and wage and hour review
Classification, pay practices, meal and rest, wage statements, records. A written findings report with a fix list your client can act on and you can point to.
Handbooks and policies
California-current handbooks, arbitration and leave policies, documentation practices. Built for the company, not downloaded.
Harassment prevention and manager training
Live, interactive supervisor training that meets the state requirement and changes how managers handle the hard conversations.
Prevention
Ongoing HR for companies of 10 to 75 people
Too big to wing it, too small for a full-time HR hire. So the HR work lands on the owner, or on you at legal rates. We take it month to month: the handbook, the training, and the daily questions that are not legal questions.
How it works
Three steps, and the relationship stays yours at every one of them.
Step 1
You loop us in
A client needs an audit, a handbook, training, or the remediation behind a notice. You introduce us, before or after the problem lands.
Step 2
We do the work, under your lead
We fix what needs fixing and document it. You see the findings first. We never interpret the statute or advise on strategy.
Step 3
Your client is in better shape, and still yours
No competing for the relationship, no legal advice, no surprises. The client remembers who brought in the fix.
Who we are looking for
California employment attorneys on the employer side who want a reliable place to send the HR work, and who have clients we can help.
- Solo and boutique employment defense practices
- Firms whose associates are doing HR work at legal rates
- ProVisors members. Becky is one too.
- Not a fit: firms that run their own HR consulting practice
What attorneys say
Written by lawyers who have worked alongside People415, in their own words, on Google.
Becky is a consummate HR professional, and has provided excellent HR advice and services to my clients who do not have their own internal HR department. As an employment attorney who has been practicing many years, I have no hesitation in recommending her.
I served as legal counsel and Ms. Barton provided wage and hour review and HR support. Ms. Barton clearly understood the issues with assessing client compliance with wage and hour requirements and prepared a thorough assessment in support of my legal advice and client's needs.
What their clients say
The employers your referrals will sound like.
Working with People 415 to conduct our HR audit has been an incredible experience. They are so knowledgeable, communicative, timely, and work to understand the values, needs and priority of the client.
They conducted a comprehensive HR audit and provided a clear, actionable plan for addressing the items they identified. Since the audit, Briann, Vanessa, Lauren, Becky, and Thomas have continued to be responsive, knowledgeable, and easy to work with.
Everyone has been very helpful and patient. I learned a lot of HR basics that helped our construction company be in compliance. Becky and Elena were very responsive and thorough with the trainings and information provided.
Not having internal resources, they have ensured that we are both in compliance with expectations and operating with the best ethical and organizational intentions. People415 makes our office feel safe and supported.
Who you would be working with
Becky Barton
Founder, People415. Helping business leaders sleep since 2016.
Becky runs a team of HR professionals for California employers of 10 to 75 people who have outgrown doing it themselves. Audits, handbooks, training, investigations, and the day-to-day questions that otherwise land on an owner at 9pm. Not a lawyer, and clear about it, which is why attorneys are comfortable sending her their clients.
Clients includeTruckee Chamber of Commerce, SF Pretrial, EcoCart, ClickAway, Sierra Club California, BOMA San Francisco, Ad Astra Law Group, Clark Howell, A Reyes Construction, Skywalker.
Thirty minutes to see if the work lines up.
That is the whole ask. If your clients need HR help and ours need counsel, we start sending each other work. If not, you have lost thirty minutes and met someone useful.
Book 30 minutes with BeckyOr email Becky directly: hello@people415.com
People415 provides HR consulting and compliance support. We do not give legal advice, practice law, or sell insurance. Referral relationships carry no fees in either direction.