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Appellate Practice, Law Practice

Tips for successful jury selection

Oct. 13, 2022
By Dan L. Stanford

One of the best things I have ever done to establish credibility in jury selection is to memorize all of the names in the pros...


U.S. Supreme Court

Epochal Decisions

Oct. 13, 2022
By Curtis E.A. Karnow

The U.S. Supreme Court forecasts a devolution of power to the state legislatures as the vehicles of democracy, which assumes t...


There may not have been a Brown Act violation, but the illegally-recorded conversation could lead to possible challenges to la...


Labor/Employment

Can pay transparency shatter the glass ceiling?

Oct. 12, 2022
By Elena Hillman, Jake Rubinstein

The latest state to leap further into pay transparency legislation is California, traditionally a bellwether for progressive e...


Ediscovery, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Government

What is new with CPRA?

Oct. 12, 2022
By Catherine Nashed

When responding to public records requests public agencies and attorneys alike are forced to address competing fundamental int...


Labor/Employment

Law schools and bar associations don’t accurately track the numbers of students and lawyers with disabilities, and the stigma ...


Environmental & Energy, U.S. Supreme Court

Bees, fish and the California Endangered Species Act

Oct. 11, 2022
By Brendan Cummings

Protecting All Species Under the Fish and Game Code


Civil Rights, Technology

Platform immunity in the crosshairs

Oct. 11, 2022
By Douglas E. Mirell

Rarely have Joe Biden and Clarence Thomas agreed upon anything. But their mutual recognition that something must be done to li...


Data Privacy, Litigation & Arbitration

The advantages of arbitrating data breach disputes

Oct. 11, 2022
By Daniel B. Garrie, Gail A. Andler

Arbitration is a private hearing and has the advantage of keeping the proceedings confidential, which can be crucial when deal...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Law Practice

For better or worse virtual hearings have become the norm in administrative and regulatory trials and there are no signs of it...


Civil Litigation, Real Estate/Development

When a drug house burdens a community, an enforcement agency should explore Drug Abatement/Red Light Abatement Actions.


Constitutional Law, Government, International Law

America treats over 3.5 million American citizens living in its territories as stepchildren – denying them representation in C...


California Supreme Court

California Supreme Court Review: September 2022

Oct. 10, 2022
By Alexis S. Coll, Ariel E. Rogers

Companies that market expressive works should avoid relying on anti-SLAPP to protect promotional claims and should be mindful ...


Judges and Judiciary, U.S. Supreme Court

Parody as advocacy

Oct. 7, 2022
By Lawrence P. Riff

The Onion’s brief can fairly be described as a parody of a Supreme Court brief. Reading it raises the interesting question tha...


Tax

IRS Form W-9 requests and backup tax withholding

Oct. 7, 2022
By Robert W. Wood

With backup withholding, when you file your tax return you are trying to get the IRS and the FTB to apply the withheld money t...


Family

It’s time to allow for audio recording in family court

Oct. 7, 2022
By Alphonse Provinziano

California’s Family Law Courts are quietly changing how they serve divorcing couples and their families. Here’s an easy fix.


Labor/Employment, Technology

When does workplace AI cross the line?

Oct. 7, 2022
By Ronald L. Zambrano

Employees who are monitored at their computers report feeling compelled to hit the keys just to register activity, while wareh...


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment

Over the last year, harassers, predators, and thoughtless co-workers alike have found their way into communicating their inapp...


Sending a personal manager to the Labor Commissioner for procuring employment for an artist is like sending someone to traffic...



Intellectual Property, U.S. Supreme Court

Warhol, Prince and the future of copyright

Oct. 6, 2022
By Bennett A. Bigman

As new technology develops, it seems that the requirement of human expression, whether in creating an original work or transfo...


Appellate Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Law Practice

Modernize your law practice

Oct. 6, 2022
By Alanna G. Clair, Shari L. Klevens

Automated time entry and billing have replaced old billing techniques like timeslips and repetitive time review with computer-...


Appellate Practice, Law Practice

A preliminary hearing provides important tools, sometimes overlooked, for an aggressive defense approach before trial.


Letters

Techniques to save clients megabucks

Oct. 5, 2022
By Kris Whitten

At times those techniques seemed counterintuitive to litigators like me, but I can tell you from personal experience, what Mr....


Government, Insurance

Higher auto liability limits are just a start

Oct. 5, 2022
By Allen Patatanyan

It is too soon to celebrate. Bureaucratic challenges associated with insurance rate changes will delay implementation of the n...


Military Law, Torts/Personal Injury

Are the kids okay?

Oct. 5, 2022
By Eileen C. Moore

What we don’t know yet is what other birth defects or conditions will develop in the children of parents who were exposed to t...


Obituaries

Don Bartell: The Houdini of DUIs

Oct. 5, 2022
By Louis J. Shapiro

The legal community has lost another giant.


Antitrust & Trade Reg., Civil Litigation

Trade secret litigation surges

Oct. 5, 2022
By Thomas Wallerstein

It’s not over yet, but 2022 already has proven to be another blockbuster year for trade secret litigation. Between big verdict...


Appellate Practice, California Supreme Court, Law Practice, U.S. Supreme Court

Scare(y) Decisis: reversing rights and wrongs

Oct. 4, 2022
By Benjamin G. Shatz

If stare decisis is too readily discarded, then the Constitution becomes “nothing more than what five Justices say it is” at a...


Family, Tax

Become the beneficiary of your own children’s trust

Oct. 4, 2022
By Bruce Givner, Owen Kaye

A parent’s ability to become beneficiaries of a trust set up for their children is a powerful tool – and a way to reassure cl...