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Government

California as a safe haven for red-state women

Sep. 1, 2022
By Alphonse Provinziano

Under current California law, a woman only has to be present in the state and fleeing from domestic violence in order to seek ...


Law Practice, Labor/Employment, Appellate Practice

It is time for California to recognize that clinging to an outdated methodology to license attorneys serves only one purpose: ...


Legal Education

Berkeley law competition puts students in the hot seat

Sep. 1, 2022
By Spencer J. Pahlke

The competing schools include winners of every major national mock trial competition for the last two years, as well as the sc...


A trimmed down rendition of the original $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, this legislation introduces significant new tax...


Litigation & Arbitration, Constitutional Law

Recent SCOTUS opinions on arbitration statutes

MCLE
Aug. 31, 2022
By Gary A. Watt, Patrick Burns

Absent truly ambiguous text, public policy arguments appear to be taking on a diminishing role. Then again, so has stare decisis.


Land Use, Government, Environmental & Energy

Oil and gas and cities – Oh, my!

Aug. 31, 2022
By Michael M. Berger

Everything is big in Texas. So the stakes were high. Trinity’s appraiser testified that, before the permit denial, the fair ma...


Labor/Employment

California employers now on notice

Aug. 31, 2022
By Daren H. Lipinsky

With the recent filings against California businesses alleging multiple violations of equal employment opportunity laws protec...


Intellectual Property, Health Care & Hospital Law

Moderna explains this apparent about-face by pointing out that it refrained from asserting its patents earlier so as not to in...


Legal Education

The demise of California’s ranchos

Aug. 30, 2022
By John S. Caragozian

Many Americans failed at mining and began to look at business, farming and ranching as alternatives, but Bay Area and Sacramen...


Letters

Courtroom electronic recording should be expanded

Aug. 30, 2022
By Lawrence P. Riff


Tax, Entertainment & Sports

Arguably among the most satisfying of all bills to discount is your tax bill. You might well acknowledge that you owe the taxe...


Technology, Intellectual Property

Algorithms as trade secrets

Aug. 29, 2022
By Randall E. Kay, Kristin Lahaszow

Why the New York Times and TikTok Are More Similar to Each Other Than You Think


Letters

Reasons for Hastings’ name change are undisputable

Aug. 29, 2022
By Merete Rietveld


Entertainment & Sports

Stream it Tonight! A Few Good Men (1992)

Aug. 26, 2022
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman

In addition to providing superior entertainment, the movie shows how a writer (Aaron Sorkin) can use the courtroom format to s...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports

The year-end NIL playbook for lawyers

Aug. 26, 2022
By Frank N. Darras

Cash upfront in exchange for a percentage of backend earnings is not a new concept, but since it is still in its infancy in co...


Real Estate/Development, Government

Challenges to adequate housing measures continue

Aug. 26, 2022
By Jeffrey Carlin, Kathleen Hill

California has approved Los Angeles’s updated housing element addressing the City’s pervasive lack of adequate and affordable ...


Legal Education

Hastings name change jeopardizes its reputation

Aug. 26, 2022
By Robert C. Wright

A renaming exposes the school to “unknown and potentially enormous” financial risks. It also suddenly creates a law school wit...


Real Estate/Development, Government, Environmental & Energy

Take a sober look at California's worst-in-the-nation poverty rate and the shameful fact that the vast majority of our poor ar...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

While “cash is king” and it is beneficial to be paid by someone who owes you money, you must recognize that under certain circ...


Education Law

It’s time for a name change at UC Hastings

Aug. 25, 2022
By Thomas J. Umberg

Should AB 1936 pass and be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, it will remove the taint of association with Serranus Hastings but...


Health Care & Hospital Law

The reality is that most people never hear about deceitful marketing practices or other bad acts of companies that put out dan...


Securities, Data Privacy

One of the most controversial parts of the SEC’s rules proposal is a requirement that companies report a cybersecurity inciden...


Government

Why I love democracy and you should too

Aug. 24, 2022
By William W. Bruzzo

Democracy should be coveted for the equal opportunity it affords its citizens, but also for its track record of success.


Education Law, Civil Rights

The simple truth is that employers who create diverse and inclusive workplaces get sued less – and fewer claims mean lower leg...


Government, Ediscovery

In light of numerous prior decisions in high-profile police misconduct cases, including the George Floyd criminal verdicts, it...


Tax

Business seller’s bonanza: capital gains (not ordinary income) tax

Aug. 23, 2022
By Stephen Mihaly, Bruce Givner

Happily, the Internal Revenue Code has a rule that should allow Seller and Buyer to salvage their initial handshake deal.


Data Privacy, Administrative/Regulatory

Could the California Privacy Protection Agency really believe that compliance with the proposed regulations would be less than...


Real Estate/Development, Insurance

Coastal properties and insuring flood risk

Aug. 22, 2022
By Kirk A. Pasich

Coastal property owners will face an increasing challenge – pressure on public agencies not to spend taxpayer money to protect...


Constitutional Law

Codifying Roe v. Wade will prove to be abortive

Aug. 22, 2022
By Richard A. Nixon

Congress has used its power under the Commerce Clause to do many things not authorized by the Constitution. This proposed use ...


Technology

No one can dispute that the internet is a fundamental part of community life.