Entertainment & Sports, Torts/Personal Injury
The thug. The actress. Her daughter. And homicide.
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
My concerns about the guest column on fringe legal theories
By Zacharias Tripodes
These columns promote fringe legal theories with potential appeal on talk radio but lack substantive value for the majority of...
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
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
A new frontier: Enforcing money judgments on cryptocurrencies
By Amanda A. Main
Judgment enforcement is highly technical, varies state-by-state, and can involve complex interactions between state and federa...
Letters
One attorneys’ brilliant logic and lasting importance on voting rights
By Albert H. Maldonado
Environmental & Energy, Government
Save the trees or harm the forest?
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 ...
Constitutional Law
Boermeester v. Carry and Title IX: No hearings, no problem? Not quite
By Nia Wahl
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
Proving the reasonable cost of past and future medical care
By Jamie G. Goldstein
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
Statutory copyright damages eligibility for group v. singular registration
By Dariush Adli
Despite the statutory provision labeling group or compilation registration as one work, case law makes clear that group regist...
Intellectual Property, Technology
The intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law
By David Schnider
As AI tools become more prevalent, authors and artists find themselves collaborating with algorithms, raising the question of ...
Unpacking the potential Kaiser strike: A labor law perspective. Speculated to become the largest healthcare industry strike in...
Constitutional Law, Health Care & Hospital Law
Inflation Reduction Act empowers negotiations for Medicare cost reduction
By Anne Schneider
The Inflation Reduction Act gives the federal government the power to negotiate the price of certain drugs for Medicare benefi...
Machines are skilled at persuading each other, so if machines replaced human judges, engineers could understand the judge-mach...
Family, Law Practice
Litigation is not a substitute for rule of law, or the only end game
By Mark B. Baer
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?
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...
Family
Cultural Divorce, Part XII: Six billion ways to leave your marriage
By Abbas Hadjian
We co-exist with about eight billion other individuals, nearly six billion of us are above the age of 15 and biologically capa...
Law Practice
The many roles of jury consultants – why or why not to use them
By Mike Arias
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
Bad facts make bad law, and it can cost you in MDL fees
By Paul R. Kiesel
This strategy is not recommended, but if you are not interested in paying common benefit fees for your cases, you should remai...
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
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
By Erin M. Joyce
As of July 1, over 1600 California attorneys were enrolled on administrative inactive status because they failed to complete t...
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
Don’t forget about site inspections and #MeToo discovery in employment cases
By Christina M. Coleman
Site inspections and #MeToo discovery are not appropriate for every case. Nonetheless, the best practice is to simply put them...
Evidence, Law Practice
Weaving the defense theme throughout the trial for a fair and just verdict
By Nicole Whyte
Core values, such as honesty, honor, and personal responsibility, can form the foundation of the defense theme.
California Courts of Appeal, Constitutional Law
Anti-SLAPP protection to public records requester answers some questions, but begs others
By Krista L. Baughman
Is the court's holding limited to real parties in interest in mandamus proceedings, or could non-party litigants in other type...
Motions in limine serve a critical function for trial, as they help frame your case and place necessary limitations on evidence.
Torts/Personal Injury
Proving constructive notice against a retail store in a premises liability case
By Ese Omofoma
Most premises cases deal with constructive instead of actual notice, due to a lack of evidence showing a defendant’s actual kn...
Military Law
An American hero of Hispanic heritage: Everett Alvarez
By Eileen C. Moore
The tortures and extreme trauma that Everett Alvarez and other POWs experienced at the hands of the North Vietnamese and Viet ...