Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
Energy regulatory agencies working hard to keep the lights on
By Seth Hilton
In the wake of the rolling blackouts last summer, California energy regulatory agencies and the state government have been scr...
Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory
Regulators race to address climate change in real time
By Patrick Ferguson
While California has historically leaned on other western states, including hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest, to...
Labor/Employment
DOL reinforces importance of privacy for ERISA plans
By Caroline Turner English, Eva Pulliam
The Department of Labor has issued guidance to instruct and advise companies about how best to care for information gathered i...
Law Practice, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Did lawyers in election suit abuse the judicial process?
By John H. Minan
Lawyers “may” have the right to say the election was stolen during public debate and discourse, but those who pursue litigatio...
Administrative/Regulatory
Another round of changes to Los Angeles cannabis licensing
By Katie Podein
As we head into year five of legal cannabis, the Los Angeles cannabis industry was dealt yet another curveball by the city’s r...
Construction, Civil Litigation
Cautionary tale: unlicensed contractor dodges a bullet
By Garret D. Murai
In a recent appellate case, a contractor who was unlicensed during a portion of a project dodged a bullet. However, I’m not so...
Technology, Law Practice
In-person trial gone remote: What do jurors need?
By Paul R. Kiesel
Once the decision was made for my recent trial trial to become fully remote, there were a host of important questions that nee...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Outsourcing the violation of constitutional rights to private parties
By Marc D. Alexander
Texas’ new abortion law gives enforcement powers to private citizens. Is there precedent for that?
Government, Constitutional Law
California’s recall is lawful, but it needs reform
By David Belcher, Michael Belcher
Insurance, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
High court clarifies life insurance grace period law
By Robert J. McKennon, Larry J. Caldwell
Most insureds pay regular monthly life insurance premiums for years without a problem. Occasionally, a policyholder may miss a...
Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice
More on trial court briefs
By Myron Moskovitz
A couple of columns back, I reported comments from several superior court judges about what they do not like to see in trial c...
Construction, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
No new exception to the Privette doctrine
By Alan H. Packer, Jack M. Rubin
Last month the California Supreme Court ruled on who should bear the risk of the injury — the owner of the property, or the in...
Securities, Books
Book Review: Marc I. Steinberg, ‘Rethinking Securities Law’
By Dennis A. Stubblefield
Steinberg, the nation’s preeminent authority on securities regulation, has recently added to his already voluminous scholarshi...
U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law
The soft death knell of Roe
By Maggie E. Schroedter, Rebecca F. Zipp
Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Law Practice, Appellate Practice
Titanic, Hindenburg, DIY appeals
By Benjamin G. Shatz
Americans are hearty souls. In our litigious land of the free and home of the brave, our laws allow — and our grandiose notion...
Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Professional responsibility: Using courts for purposes never intended
By A. Marco Turk
Last month, an amazing decision by U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker found nine lawyers from different jurisdictions s...
Labor/Employment, Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
New COVID rules for state employees, health care workers
By Julia Y. Trankiem, Blake E. Guerrero
Governor Gavin Newsom and the California Department of Public Health have issued new public health requirements in response to...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Government
California Legislature contemplates COVID-19 vaccine mandate
By Benjamin M. Ebbink
The end of the legislative session in California is always a time of high drama as last-minute deals come together and many un...
In the to and fro of modern litigation, at the speed at which we practice these days, I occasionally get myself stuck in that ...
Torts/Personal Injury, Real Estate/Development, Construction, Civil Litigation
Champlain Towers catastrophe: Who pays the victims?
By Tyler Berding
There’s a legal maxim that says, “for every wrong there is a remedy.” The catastrophic collapse of the Champlain Towers condom...
If you did not know about conservatorships before, no doubt you are acquainted with them now given the public light cast on Br...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
The new threat to reproductive choice
By Stanley Haren
The U.S. Supreme Court recently decided to hear and decide Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (19-1392) in its next...
Technology, Law Practice
Experimental jurisprudence to be enriched via AI
By Lance Eliot
Relatively few day-to-day lawyers have heard about experimental jurisprudence. The wording alone is apt to imply something oth...
Government, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
The California travails of former slave Archy Lee
By John S. Caragozian
As California applied for statehood in 1850, the slavery debate was consuming the nation. California intensified the debate, b...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Gig companies got too greedy with Prop 22
By John D. Winer, Michael S. Reeder
Proposition 22 “appears only to protect the economic interests of the network companies in having a divided, ununionized workf...
Technology, Data Privacy
How much is too much to protect your children against sexual predators?
By Svetlana McManus, Kamran Salour
When Apple announced last month that the upcoming release of iOS 15 would include two new safety features — Communication Safe...
Labor/Employment
How helpful is federal guidance for COVID long haulers?
By Frank N. Darras
Weeks and months after getting a COVID-19 infection, many survivors continue to experience disabling symptoms that limit or pr...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Body brokers unlawfully profit off of vulnerable members of society
By Doug Rochen
Government, Constitutional Law
The unconstitutional logic of California’s recall election
By Neil Auwarter
Governor Gavin Newsom faces the prospect of being recalled and replaced in an election in which he is the clear mathematical w...
Torts/Personal Injury
Sidewalk homeless encampments: hidden trap or obvious condition?
By Michael E. Rubinstein
A good Samaritan is distributing food and water at a homeless camp. She steps in the street to walk around a tent and is hit b...