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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mediating emotional employment disputes during COVID-19

Aug. 10, 2021
By Stephen Sonnenberg

Before the pandemic, in workplaces different than many today, there was no shortage of employment disputes. Allegations of dis...


Real Estate/Development

Security deposits

MCLE
Aug. 9, 2021
By David Greene, Joseph Kellener

Security deposits are the most common fight we encounter between landlord and tenant — and the bigger the deposit, the bigger ...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property

It is a question many intellectual property lawyers navigating a potential infringement case have undoubtedly pondered: How ma...


Entertainment & Sports

Are unions the answer for college athletes?

Aug. 9, 2021
By Frank N. Darras

A bill recently introduced in Congress would allow some college athletes to unionize and classify themselves as employees. As ...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, Labor/Employment

Bested by their rival Canada in the semifinals, they failed to reach the gold-medal match for a second straight Olympics. At t...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports

Black Windows: Scarlett Jo vs Disney

Aug. 6, 2021
By Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson

“The truth rarely makes sense when you omit key details.” These words, spoken by Florence Pugh to Scarlett Johansson in “Black...


Government, Tax

Congressional attempts to secure former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related tax information is in the news again ...


Entertainment & Sports

Olympic reflections: the rules, the judges, the organization

Aug. 6, 2021
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

If the most potent existential threats to the Olympic Games are war and terrorism, pandemic also makes the podium. This year, ...


Books, Entertainment & Sports, Law Practice

Q&A with ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ author Michael Connelly

Aug. 5, 2021
By William Domnarski

Known mostly these days for his character Harry Bosch–he of the popular television series bearing his name–best-selling Los An...


Insurance

Time for California to reform insurance requirements

Aug. 5, 2021
By Miguel A. Custodio

If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice

Effective strategies for lawyers considering transitioning to retirement

Aug. 5, 2021
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

Attorneys may take varied views on the prospect of retirement. Some wish to remain practicing attorneys, or at least affiliate...


Administrative/Regulatory, Government

The CFPB’s war on discrimination

Aug. 5, 2021
By Scott M. Pearson, John A. Kimble

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon be weighing in on the national conversation on discrimination with actions,...


Whenever money changes hands, there are tax issues, and that is certainly true with the legal settlement by celebrity Chef Mar...


Law Practice

What Simone Biles can teach us lawyers

Aug. 4, 2021
By Anthony J. Mohr

Over 20 years ago, during a business trip to Los Angeles, an old law school friend managed to sneak in an hour for dinner with...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice

Alzheimer’s: Will you know what to do?

Aug. 4, 2021
By Robert M. Heller

Part 4: Litigators’ duties owed to clients with Alzheimer’s


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

Butting in on appeal

MCLE
Aug. 3, 2021
By Benjamin G. Shatz

As originally enacted in 1872, CCP Section 387 specified that “any person may, before trial, intervene” which courts interpret...


Civil Litigation, Construction

While a “subrogated insurer is said to ‘stand in the shoes’ of its insured, because it has no greater rights than the insured....


Law Practice, Technology

When AI is the criminal

Aug. 3, 2021
By Lance Eliot

Besides using AI for the good of mankind, there is also the opposite side of the coin and the application of AI to commit crim...


Military Law

Women veterans behind bars

Aug. 3, 2021
By Eileen C. Moore

America must do more to keep women veterans out of jail.


Family, Judges and Judiciary

Private judge in Jolie/Pitt case: no more flawed than usual

Aug. 2, 2021
By Timothy D. Reuben, Stephanie I. Blum

In Jolie v. Superior Court, Angelina Jolie obtained a writ of mandate from the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Division 7 orderi...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice, State Bar & Bar Associations

Lawyers across the US are playing in the sandbox

Aug. 2, 2021
By David M. Majchrzak, Heather L. Rosing

No, as enjoyable an image as it may conjure up, chances are that you probably won’t be seeing a large number of your bar colle...


Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice

What's in a title? Who cares?

Aug. 2, 2021
By Arthur Gilbert

Titles can be misleading... even my own


California Courts of Appeal, Contracts, Entertainment & Sports

On July 21, a California appellate court issued a significant decision involving royalty agreements


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

On trial court briefs: the judges speak

Aug. 2, 2021
By Myron Moskovitz

Trial judges from across the state weigh in on proper brief writing — including their thoughts on attacks on opposing counsel.


Health Care & Hospital Law

Ironically, while MICRA has threatened the lives and wellbeing of patients, it has not even helped doctors. Despite MICRA, th...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, Law Practice

Arbitrator disclosure rules meet legal creativity

MCLE
Jul. 30, 2021
By Fred Bennett

It not surprising that, for better or worse, the creative juices of lawyers considering arbitrator bias claims continue to flow.


Probate, Tax

Can IRS collect penalties even post-death? You bet

Jul. 30, 2021
By Robert W. Wood

In a recent case, the court denied the estate’s motion to discuss, finding that even non-willful penalties survived the taxpay...


Labor/Employment

For many employers, if not all, the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the landscape of the workplace. Particularly, the hybrid bus...


Law Practice

Trained as a lawyer, with a year clerking on the 9th Circuit, Dahlia Lithwick writes for Slate, the influential online news ma...


California Supreme Court, Civil Litigation

In a recent ruling, the California Supreme Court analyzed how stare decisis applies to a 19th century decision with questionab...