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Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice

Saving remote appearance from itself

Aug. 31, 2023
By Daniel P. Maguire, Shawn Landry

There is no inherent reason why remote appearance should be more casual and less decorous than physical appearance. But experi...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court

Two classic Supreme Court cases involved legislative decisions that were enforced during administrative proceedings. Had the C...


Books

A Danish giant in “The Copenhagen Trilogy”

Aug. 30, 2023
By Richard Wirick

In this 340-page book, Tove Ditlevsen stays faithful to the grit of an exiled insider wandering her own cobblestone squares an...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

A lawyer’s reputation can be hard to untarnish

Aug. 30, 2023
By Kenneth K. So

In recent years, a win-at-any-cost mentality has increasingly pervaded the legal profession. An attorney who interrupts others...


Contracts

TSG v. Disney is all about ‘Showing the Money’

Aug. 30, 2023
By Elsa Ramo, Laura LaBrecque

Hollywood financier TSG Entertainment’s recent litigation against Fox and the Walt Disney Company is a tale as old as time.


California Supreme Court, Cannabis

California Supreme Court Review: August 2023

Aug. 30, 2023
By Andrew S. Ong, Ariel E. Rogers

An injunction clarifying and defining the Department of Cannabis Control’s obligation to establish a track and trace system co...


Constitutional Law, Government

On Aug. 24, Lawrence Caplan filed what may be the first federal civil lawsuit against Donald Trump under Section 3 of the Four...


California Supreme Court, Labor/Employment

In reviewing cases dealing with rounding time policies, appellate courts up until recently stood behind the ruling in See's Ca...


Government

Memo to Harris: Brush up on your Nixon

Aug. 29, 2023
By James Attridge

The historical scenario that looms over Kamala Harris’ renomination is young Richard Nixon’s predicament in 1956.


International Rights Advocates recently filed a complaint with the United States Court of International Trade to force the Bid...


Done carefully and with the right kind of income, properly moving out of California can reduce or eliminate the sting of Calif...


Torts/Personal Injury

The majority’s creative interpretation of the line between fact and opinion creates a slippery slope that will undoubtedly be ...


The primary question in two cases from separate circuits is whether laws restricting content-moderation on social media comply...


Administrative/Regulatory

Robotaxi to SFO?

Aug. 28, 2023
By Aaron H. Jacoby, Gordon Sung

The CPUC’s decision is significant. San Francisco is an enormous market for taxi and ride-hailing services. It is the perfect,...


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

Effective use of focus groups

Aug. 28, 2023
By Danny Abir

Can you imagine if you were able to have a trial, see the result, turn back the clock with a crystal ball, and then go to medi...


California Supreme Court, Civil Rights

Since major amendments to the California election code in 2016, which standardized the procedures for switching from at-large ...


Entertainment & Sports, Torts/Personal Injury

The NCAA’s interim policies on name, image and likeness rights have created a Gordian Knot for athletes and teams, which colle...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, Appellate Practice

Zealous representation is good, but get a second opinion

Aug. 25, 2023
By Margaret M. Morrow, Laurie D. Zelon

Advocates believe, with reason, that they know the facts of their case and the applicable law better than anyone else. Sometim...


Legal Education

While traditional mock trials let law school students simulate courtroom proceedings in a controlled environment, Flash Trials...


Intellectual Property, Technology

District Court holds that copyright law is designed to adapt to the times but can’t be stretched to works generated with no hu...


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

Welcome to the premiere of ‘The Source,’ your monthly column to the dynamic realm of attorney business development. Whether yo...


Intellectual Property, Technology

Meta Platforms, Inc., and Twitter, Inc., now X Corp., are seemingly priming for a legal battle with far-reaching implications....


Administrative/Regulatory, Health Care & Hospital Law

The case threatens the FDA’s regulatory authority and could lead to established, safe medications being challenged simply beca...


Technology, Torts/Personal Injury

With rideshares, the safety ratings should set most riders’ minds at ease. However, that does not mean that one should not be ...


Administrative/Regulatory, Technology

On Aug. 10, the FEC took the first step toward regulating federal candidates’ use of deepfakes and other AI-enabled fake image...


9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Administrative/Regulatory, Technology

The 9th Circuit recently ruled that a text message is not a voice, finding that even though “‘voice’ can be used symbolically,...


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

In re Kirkland: the location of the proceeding - not the person - still matters for Rule 45 compliance in our post-pand...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government

While the headlines are understandably focusing on Trump himself, the legal community should be looking to its own. We sit in ...


Law Practice

Burnout is a workplace issue, resulting from ongoing, unrelenting, workplace stressors. These stressors take many forms, depen...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Proposed rules pending consideration by the California Supreme Court are premised on the concept that advocacy for a client do...