LOS ANGELES -- In 2014, Kelly Knight got a call. At a pub in Little Tokyo that Knight knew well as a meeting place for Asian American attorneys, long-simmering problems were coming to a head. The workers were picketing. Some had filed complaints with the state labor commissioner and were trying to unionize, and the restaurant bar was suing the workers.
The situation, as Knight tells it, was a mess, and leaders from the ... (continued)