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Environmental & Energy

If trends continue, California could lose Colorado River water supply.


Law Practice

The decline and fall of court appearance decorum

Aug. 19, 2021
By Michael L. Stern

As COVID-19 forces counsel to make remote court appearances, an inadvertent casualty of the pandemic is that some attorneys ar...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

5 lousy reasons to fire and sue your lawyer

Aug. 19, 2021
By Louie H. Castoria

Legal malpractice claims are most often caused by failures to communicate and can be avoided by successful two-way communicati...


As we face the most challenging public health crisis of our lifetime, we should not forget how that crisis interacts with and ...


Data Privacy, Military Law

The military’s use of AI technology has sparked concerns that combat decisions could be made solely by computers, which could ...


Tax

Taxing sexual abuse and harassment settlements

Aug. 18, 2021
By Robert W. Wood

Are there still tax issues in sexual abuse and sexual harassment cases? You bet. Whether arising from clergy sex abuse, athlet...


Corporate, Securities

SEC approves Nasdaq’s disclosure-based approach to improving diversity

Aug. 18, 2021
By Virginia F. Milstead, Kasonni Scales

The new rule changes pertaining to board diversity, which require that companies “publicly disclose board-level diversity stat...


Labor/Employment

COVID long-haulers likely covered by the ADA

Aug. 17, 2021
By Dan M. Forman, Allison O. Chua

Many people who contract COVID-19 recover completely within a few weeks. However, some individuals continue to experience symp...


Family

In the context of an action for legal malpractice, the 2nd District Court of Appeal reminded family law practitioners that the...


California Supreme Court, Government

Last week the California Supreme Court provided some welcome clarity to the rules that govern litigants’ rights and obligation...


Legal Education

Is law school worth it?

Aug. 17, 2021
By Erwin Chemerinsky

It is interesting that the issue is arising at a time when more people want to go to law school than at any time in the last d...


Law Practice, Technology

There is a notably fabled expression that touts the idea that it is turtles all the way down. This is a catchy reference to a ...


Appellate Practice

What do you think?

Aug. 16, 2021
By Myron Moskovitz

What do lawyers think about? Easy: what to advise a client, how to draft a document, which witnesses to put on, etc. But there...


Administrative/Regulatory

Surge in False Claims Act enforcement continues

Aug. 13, 2021
By Nick Hanna, Jim Zelenay Jr.

As the Biden administration settles into its first year, the government has signaled not only that the FCA remains its primary...


Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice

Post-COVID legal landscape shows deep divides

Aug. 13, 2021
By Gerald L. Sauer

As we enter the next phase of post-pandemic life, there are more unknowns than knowns.


Criminal, Letters

If you read Eric Siddall’s August 11 column, paid close attention to what he was saying, how he was saying it, and did not all...


The King of Pop died unexpectedly in 2009. The recent Tax Court victory by his estate was momentous and provides useful remind...


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law

Anti-SLAPP protections for hospital peer reviews: questions linger

Aug. 13, 2021
By Barry S. Landsberg, Joanna S. McCallum

The California Supreme Court recently clarified the scope of protection under the anti-SLAPP law for communication and conduct...


Administrative/Regulatory

With the remaining components of California’s Proposition 12 — the state’s 2018 ballot initiative covering the in-state produc...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice

The most artful attorneys can spar with opposing counsel, disagree with the judge, and have the jury nodding along with their ...


Law Practice, Legal Education, U.S. Supreme Court

Q&A with Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School

Aug. 12, 2021
By William Domnarski

The revered professor has been for 40 years one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars. He's known as a great teac...


Legal Education

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal lamented that law school has “lost its luster” as debts mount, salaries stagnate, ...


Civil Litigation

In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...


Constitutional Law, Government

When Washington bureaucrats control the reins of power

Aug. 11, 2021
By Luke A. Wake, Ethan Blevins

Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...


Law Practice, Technology

Lawyers are legally bound by existing rules that require various stringent duties to communicate with their clients. A kerfuff...


QSFs have blossomed into important as they possess remarkable tax efficiency.


Criminal

According to District Attorney George Gascón, "The past four decades have not made us any safer." This recent ahistorical stat...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Litigation

Making sense of the FAA exemption paradox

Aug. 10, 2021
By Kevin Ruf

Courts have long struggled with the so-called “interstate commerce exemption” under the Federal Arbitration Act.


Constitutional Law, Government

COVID can’t cancel the Constitution

Aug. 10, 2021
By Harmeet K. Dhillon, Michael Columbo

California has led the nation in responding to COVID-19 challenges with sweeping, unilateral executive decrees, rulemaking and...


California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment

State high court: pay meal and rest period premiums at regular rate

Aug. 10, 2021
By Jasmine Shams, Jason Morris

As many California employers know all too well, California’s employment compliance landscape is a dense maze that is constantl...