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Administrative/Regulatory, Environmental & Energy

In the wake of the rolling blackouts last summer, California energy regulatory agencies and the state government have been scr...


Administrative/Regulatory, Environmental & Energy

While California has historically leaned on other western states, including hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest, to...


Labor/Employment

DOL reinforces importance of privacy for ERISA plans

Sep. 9, 2021
By Caroline Turner English, Eva Pulliam

The Department of Labor has issued guidance to instruct and advise companies about how best to care for information gathered i...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government, Law Practice

Lawyers “may” have the right to say the election was stolen during public debate and discourse, but those who pursue litigatio...


Administrative/Regulatory

As we head into year five of legal cannabis, the Los Angeles cannabis industry was dealt yet another curveball by the city’s r...


Civil Litigation, Construction

In a recent appellate case, a contractor who was unlicensed during a portion of a project dodged a bullet. However, I’m not so...


Law Practice, Technology

In-person trial gone remote: What do jurors need?

Sep. 8, 2021
By Paul R. Kiesel

Once the decision was made for my recent trial trial to become fully remote, there were a host of important questions that nee...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court

Texas’ new abortion law gives enforcement powers to private citizens. Is there precedent for that?


Constitutional Law, Government

California’s recall is lawful, but it needs reform

Sep. 8, 2021
By David Belcher, Michael Belcher


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Insurance

High court clarifies life insurance grace period law

Sep. 7, 2021
By Robert J. McKennon, Larry J. Caldwell

Most insureds pay regular monthly life insurance premiums for years without a problem. Occasionally, a policyholder may miss a...


Appellate Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice

More on trial court briefs

Sep. 7, 2021
By Myron Moskovitz

A couple of columns back, I reported comments from several superior court judges about what they do not like to see in trial c...


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Construction

No new exception to the Privette doctrine

Sep. 7, 2021
By Alan H. Packer, Jack M. Rubin

Last month the California Supreme Court ruled on who should bear the risk of the injury — the owner of the property, or the in...


Books, Securities

Steinberg, the nation’s preeminent authority on securities regulation, has recently added to his already voluminous scholarshi...


Constitutional Law, Health Care & Hospital Law, U.S. Supreme Court

The soft death knell of Roe

Sep. 7, 2021
By Maggie E. Schroedter, Rebecca F. Zipp

Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

Titanic, Hindenburg, DIY appeals

MCLE
Sep. 8, 2021
By Benjamin G. Shatz

Americans are hearty souls. In our litigious land of the free and home of the brave, our laws allow — and our grandiose notion...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government

Last month, an amazing decision by U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker found nine lawyers from different jurisdictions s...


Government, Health Care & Hospital Law, Labor/Employment

New COVID rules for state employees, health care workers

Sep. 3, 2021
By Julia Y. Trankiem, Blake E. Guerrero

Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health have issued new public health requirements in response to...


Government, Health Care & Hospital Law

The end of the legislative session in California is always a time of high drama as last-minute deals come together and many un...


Law Practice

Modern litigation: Minding the rat hole

Sep. 3, 2021
By James D. Crosby

In the to and fro of modern litigation, at the speed at which we practice these days, I occasionally get myself stuck in that ...


Civil Litigation, Construction, Torts/Personal Injury, Real Estate/Development

There’s a legal maxim that says, “for every wrong there is a remedy.” The catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers condom...


Family, Law Practice

The life and times of conservatorships

MCLE

By Beti Tsai Bergman

If you did not know about conservatorships before, no doubt you are acquainted with them now given the public light cast on Br...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court

The new threat to reproductive choice

Sep. 2, 2021
By Stanley Haren

The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear and decide Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (19-1392) in its next...


Law Practice, Technology

Relatively few day-to-day lawyers have heard about experimental jurisprudence. The wording alone is apt to imply something oth...


Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Government

The California travails of former slave Archy Lee

Sep. 2, 2021
By John S. Caragozian

As California applied for statehood in 1850, the slavery debate was consuming the nation. California intensified the debate, b...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment

Gig companies got too greedy with Prop 22

Sep. 2, 2021
By John D. Winer, Michael S. Reeder

Proposition 22 “appears only to protect the economic interests of the network companies in having a divided, ununionized workf...


Data Privacy, Technology

How much is too much to protect your children against sexual predators?

Sep. 2, 2021
By Svetlana McManus, Kamran Salour

When Apple announced last month that the upcoming release of iOS 15 would include two new safety features — Communication Safe...


Labor/Employment

Weeks and months after getting a COVID-19 infection, many survivors continue to experience disabling symptoms that limit or pr...


Health Care & Hospital Law


Constitutional Law, Government

Governor Gavin Newsom faces the prospect of being recalled and replaced in an election in which he is the clear mathematical w...


Torts/Personal Injury

A good Samaritan is distributing food and water at a homeless camp. She steps in the street to walk around a tent and is hit b...