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Entertainment & Sports, Torts/Personal Injury

The thug. The actress. Her daughter. And homicide.

Sep. 8, 2023
By John S. Caragozian

Crane went downstairs into the kitchen, got a knife, and returned upstairs. She waited outside her mother’s bedroom door; when...


Letters

These columns promote fringe legal theories with potential appeal on talk radio but lack substantive value for the majority of...


Government

America is approaching its promised freedom

Sep. 7, 2023
By Richard A. Nixon

Assuming that Congress had enacted the Incorporation Doctrine as law, to apply the Bill of Rights (substantive law) to the sta...


Entertainment & Sports, Securities

The pitfalls of celebrity shilling

Sep. 7, 2023
By Ron S. Geffner

Prior to FTX, the risks of celebrities endorsing companies were evident, with the U.S. SEC investigating and settling cases wi...


Civil Litigation, Civil Procedure

Judgment enforcement is highly technical, varies state-by-state, and can involve complex interactions between state and federa...



Letters


Environmental & Energy, Government

Save the trees or harm the forest?

Sep. 7, 2023
By Christopher Rheinheimer, Tessa Opalach

“The Save Our Sequoias Act suggests creating a Coalition of federal, state, and local entities to protect sequoia groves from ...


Denying the opportunity to cross-examine a witness raises concerns about the credibility of their testimony, as it may enable ...


Civil Litigation, Health Care & Hospital Law

When discussing healthcare with your clients, it’s crucial to explain the difference between the use of insurance, if availabl...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Intellectual Property

Despite the statutory provision labeling group or compilation registration as one work, case law makes clear that group regist...


Intellectual Property, Technology

As AI tools become more prevalent, authors and artists find themselves collaborating with algorithms, raising the question of ...


Labor/Employment

The legal framework behind labor strikes

Sep. 6, 2023
By John W. Fagerholm

Unpacking the potential Kaiser strike: A labor law perspective. Speculated to become the largest healthcare industry strike in...


Constitutional Law, Health Care & Hospital Law

The Inflation Reduction Act gives the federal government the power to negotiate the price of certain drugs for Medicare benefi...


Appellate Practice, Technology

My AI nightmare

Sep. 5, 2023
By Myron Moskovitz

Machines are skilled at persuading each other, so if machines replaced human judges, engineers could understand the judge-mach...


Family, Law Practice

While litigation serves a very important purpose in our society, it is a process choice for dispute resolution. It is by no me...


Guide to Legal Writing

Apostrophic Apotheosis: Whose fees are they, anyway?

Sep. 5, 2023
By Benjamin G. Shatz, Benjamin E. Strauss

“Is the proper term ‘attorney fees,’ ‘attorneys fees,’ ‘attorney’s fees,’ or ‘attorneys’ fees?’” The next time you’re struggli...


We co-exist with about eight billion other individuals, nearly six billion of us are above the age of 15 and biologically capa...


Even the most experienced trial attorney would be lucky to have picked one hundred juries in their entire career. For this rea...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Class Action

This strategy is not recommended, but if you are not interested in paying common benefit fees for your cases, you should remai...


Judges and Judiciary

The definition of justice

Sep. 1, 2023
By David Rosenberg

Once upon a time, we all believed that Judges could always be impartial, but we have since learned that we (like all humans) a...


Civil Litigation, Torts/Personal Injury

Billing experts – directs and crosses

Sep. 1, 2023
By Greyson M. Goody

Most billing experts are not medical doctors and became “experts” by taking a short course in billing. This article illuminat...


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

New frontier for trust accounting

Sep. 1, 2023
By Erin M. Joyce

As of July 1, over 1600 California attorneys were enrolled on administrative inactive status because they failed to complete t...


Torts/Personal Injury

Proving damages in low-impact auto cases

Sep. 1, 2023
By Byron J. Abron

When you have a case that is low-impact, and thus has little to no property damage, it is important that you consider introduc...


Labor/Employment

Site inspections and #MeToo discovery are not appropriate for every case. Nonetheless, the best practice is to simply put them...


Evidence, Law Practice

Core values, such as honesty, honor, and personal responsibility, can form the foundation of the defense theme.


California Courts of Appeal, Constitutional Law

Is the court's holding limited to real parties in interest in mandamus proceedings, or could non-party litigants in other type...


Evidence, Law Practice

Drafting effective motions in limine

Aug. 31, 2023
By Teresa A. Johnson

Motions in limine serve a critical function for trial, as they help frame your case and place necessary limitations on evidence.


Most premises cases deal with constructive instead of actual notice, due to a lack of evidence showing a defendant’s actual kn...


Military Law

The tortures and extreme trauma that Everett Alvarez and other POWs experienced at the hands of the North Vietnamese and Viet ...