Meet the Leadership Class of 2020

Hoover Krepelka, LLP, the preeminent family law firm in Northern California, is pleased to announce Karl S. Nastrom has joined the practice. Since becoming a California attorney in 2013, Nastrom has practiced family law, primarily in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. During that time he has advised and represented clients in negotiations, contested hearings, and trials related to child custody, child support, domestic violence restraining orders, alimony, establishment of paternity, marital dissolution, division of marital property, pre-marital agreements, and all issues that arise within each of those broad areas of family law.

The 2020 pandemic has acted as a stark innovation accelerator, as companies had to scramble to adapt to remote work, and the challenges it brought into light.When CEO Satya Nadella presented Microsoft’s quarterly earnings to Wall Street at the end of April 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic, he said he had witnessed “two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months: from remote teamwork and learning, to sales and customer service, to critical cloud infrastructure”.As a company headquartered in Milan, Italy—one of the areas that was first and worst affected by the Covid-19 outbreak—we realized early in the fight against the virus that it would change the way we work, learn and, unfortunately, interact and socialize, for good.Here are some of the innovation challenges we have worked with our clients to tackle, and the lessons we learned along the way.

Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new system to monitor the coronavirus in California, revamping the state’s watchlist for its 58 counties into color-coded levels that should simplify the process of reopening. This new system, also known as "CA's Blueprint for a Safer Economy" is the next evolution of the state's COVID-19 response. Every county is now assigned to a color tier based on its rate of new cases & positivity to determine which sectors can operate. Here on this new site you can type in your county and look up what activity is allowed. Under this new framework, hair salons, barbershops and indoor malls are allowed to operate indoors under the state's new system, but only at 25% capacity as of August 31. Please continue reading for more information...

City of San Jose, Team San Jose and Hotel Partners team up to offer reduced rates to fire evacuees.

Businesses all over the country have been forced to re-imagine their business models, and tap into their creativity in order to sustain their livelihood. Some of our very own SVO members, including Christy Wright shared how the pandemic taught her to focus on what she loves. Read the rest of her blog to see how the pandemic changed her photography business.

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