Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Judges and Judiciary
Queasy as ABC (Appellate Bias Committee)
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Raising issues of judicial or court bias is understandably uncomfortable, especially for those who have to continue to live an...
Torts/Personal Injury
Assessing a school's liability when the school bus doesn't show up
By Michael E. Rubinstein
School liability for student injuries is a complicated issue. Schools owe a special relationship to their students. As the Bri...
A legal framework to tokenize private fund products helping fund managers to improve on operational efficiencies, provide incr...
Contracts, Labor/Employment
WGA and producers end 148-day strike with historic agreement
By Anthony Glukhov, Laura LaBrecque
Did the perfect storm of general labor changes, economic distress, and a protracted strike create fair winds for the WGA to re...
Don't take it personal, but that device you're using for work isn't confidential
By Sheila A.G. Armbrust, Ankur Shingal
Identifying and securing work-related materials on personal electronic devices in light of new DOJ guidance.
Many decades ago, judges were more guarded about who they truly were as human beings. Today most are more willing to reveal th...
U.S. Supreme Court
Part II on interpreting our Constitution: the voters vs the judges
By Myron Moskovitz
Maybe Plato had a point – democracy is pretty good, but once in a while it gets out of hand, and nine old wise guys and gals a...
Government, U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court needs to consider Trump’s eligibility
By John H. Minan
An urgent public interest exists in the U.S. Supreme Court resolving the uncertainty and controversy about whether Trump is el...
Law Practice
Demeanor evidence is not always credible or accurately interpreted
By Mark B. Baer
It is true that body language and other forms of nonverbal communication have meaning. I am unaware of anyone who disputes suc...
After Ruth died, Christopher Scalia shared the story of an encounter between his father and a fellow judge years earlier in Ju...
A unique attribute of our justice system
By David Rosenberg
Only one nation – the United States of America – allows jury trials in the vast majority of civil cases.
State bill that protects against abusive litigation adds muscle to anti-SLAPP law
By Mark Goldowitz
SB 345 is the latest of a series of measures passed by the Legislature recently seeking to protect Californians from the overr...
Destroy the records, destroy the corporate veil
By Marisa B. Miller, Kevin Chang
California Court Of Appeal rules that manager’s destruction of company records supports finding of unity of interest sufficien...
SpaceX wields the Constitution against the government
By Liliana Gallelli, Esq.
The SpaceX countersuit claims that it has a constitutional right to have the case heard in an “Article III” court and calls fo...
The Don on Trial
By C. Joseph Greaves
Although separated by nearly ninety years, the parallels between the Trump and Lucania prosecutions are many, and if you squin...
New law bolsters tenant displacement safeguards
By Julia Wobbe, Joseph Tobener
The expansions in Senate Bill 567 collectively create a more encompassing and equitable framework for tenant rights and afford...
Law Practice
Networking strategies for lawyers: cultivating connections for business growth
By George Brandon
Effective networking isn't about amassing a vast number of business cards or attending countless events--it's about cultivatin...
Administrative/Regulatory
What your foreign national client needs to know about visas
By Greg Berk, Christine Doyle
Foreign national clients are often confused about their visa options and durations for staying in the U.S., with some cases su...
Administrative/Regulatory
Pandemic loan fraud prosecutions shine spotlight on rushed rollout
By Christine Adams
From the start, the PPP loan program was destined for problems. Speed was prioritized over security, and conscious choices wer...
Administrative/Regulatory, Securities
New SEC rules create industry chaos
By Sara L. Terheggen
While the industry watches and waits for the outcome of the lawsuit filed by six trade associations against the SEC, private f...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
To tell or not to tell? Questions and concerns complying with the new 'snitch rule'
By Wendy L. Patrick
As California lawyers, we are actually assisted by our status as the last holdout state to adopt some version of ABA rule 8.3 ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Civility should not be the exception
By Arash Homampour
How the annual civility oath will be taken and documented is not entirely clear, but the simple recitation of words once a yea...
Administrative/Regulatory, Intellectual Property
What practitioners need to know about the Google trial
By Kate Patchen
The Google case is historically significant as the first major antitrust challenge against a tech company in over two decades,...
Contracts, Entertainment & Sports
Conference shuffles and NIL shaping the future of collegiate play
By Frank N. Darras
Oppressive examples of college athletes signing away lifetime rights for deals now may not provide the long-term benefits they...
One of the classic things that courts have used to restart any limitations period has been the level of noise produced. That i...
Though there are plenty of legitimate ERC claims, there have been fraudulent ones too. As a result, businesses that legitimate...
Antitrust & Trade Reg.
California needs to amend the Cartwright Act to redress single-firm monopolization
By Ken MacVey, Wendy Y. Wang
It simply does not make sense or constitute sound public policy that anticompetitive agreements and conduct involving “combina...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property
Split 9th Circuit makes an ‘impossible’ trademark lawsuit possible
By Theresa Conduah
The court appears to be willing to exercise personal jurisdiction based on a defendant’s prior operations and activities in a ...
Administrative/Regulatory, Data Privacy
CFPB notches multibillion dollar settlement with credit repair operation
By Moorari Shah, A.J. Dhaliwal
In recent years, the CFPB and FTC have taken aggressive enforcement actions against debt relief companies, putting the credit ...
Administrative/Regulatory
A better solution than resurrecting SB 662 is on its way
By Mary E. Pierce
If professional court reporters will not be producing the transcripts from recordings of court proceedings and gig transcriber...