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Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights

The system looks good on paper. However, in actual practice it is terrible. The rights of seniors and other adults with disabi...


Family, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

You’ve lost your client. Now what?

MCLE
Nov. 1, 2019
By Lucy Vartanian

Determining the appropriate course of action when a client goes missing or passes away is a perplexing gray area of California...


Insurance, Alternative Dispute Resolution


Tax

With the IRS, procedure can mean millions

Nov. 1, 2019
By Robert W. Wood

n tax matters, procedure is important. The IRS has many rules about notices, deadlines, refunds, audits and disputes. And no m...


Legal Education, Law Practice

Oral communication, including formal presentations and informal conversations, is a critical professional competency for law s...


Civil Litigation, Insurance

A recent appellate rulings considers the question.


Criminal

What is a kill zone?

Oct. 31, 2019
By Frank J. Menetrez

Understanding the myriad sources of confusion


Labor/Employment

California again expands lactation accommodation requirements

Oct. 31, 2019
By Michael J. Nader, Jill L. Schubert

Earlier this month, Gov. Newsom signed a bill that amends the California Labor Code to expand lactation space requirements for...


Environmental & Energy

Reducing lead exposure levels, particularly in older urban communities, can produce demonstrable and significant social impact...


Government, Constitutional Law


Civil Litigation, Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The law does not favor retroactivity; but how the court will rule is unclear.


Constitutional Law, California Courts of Appeal

Ethics at the California Coastal Commission

Oct. 30, 2019
By Michael M. Berger

A recent case involving the commission was not only wrong — it was offensive.


Letters, Government, Criminal

Gascon didn’t do this

Oct. 30, 2019
By Marc Debbaudt

Regarding the Oct. 29 article, “Gascon aims to make LA DA race about over incarceration” — a couple of things I know with cert...


Law Practice

Run to work!

Oct. 30, 2019
By Frank H. Wu

The best aspect of my work day is the morning commute. That is because I have become a run commuter. I travel on foot the 4.5 ...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Criminal

The whole truth

Oct. 30, 2019
By Michael J. Raphael

Even our friends who lack a J.D. know, a witness typically swears that she will tell not just the truth, and not just nothing ...


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

A recent ruling is an important case creating a new requirement that arbitrators disclose their ownership interest in ADR orga...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports

“Oh the Places You’ll Boldly Go!,” a literary “mash-up” that places characters from the “Stark Trek” universe in settings base...


Civil Litigation, Insurance, California Supreme Court

In Slater the Court of Appeal declared that no authority supports the proposition that public policy mandates that the notice-...


Tax, Corporate

The way the settlement or judgment is structured can have significant consequences when tax season rolls around. So it pays to...


Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court

California’s constitution needs some changes

Oct. 29, 2019
By Stephen M. Duvernay, Brandon V. Stracener

Several provisions in California’s constitution are dead letters, having been quashed by judicial decisions or otherwise rende...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

The Supreme Court is expected to answer open questions about the application of the anti-SLAPP statute, Civil Procedure Code S...


Judges and Judiciary

We count what we care about: Conservatees in California

Oct. 29, 2019
By Thomas F. Coleman

Bankers know to the penny how much money they are managing in their financial institution. Elections are based on the actual n...


U.S. Supreme Court, Tax, Government, Constitutional Law

Given Trump’s willingness to block any attempt to access his financial records and business dealings, the only thing certain i...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory

Businesses: What to know about draft CCPA regulations

Oct. 28, 2019
By Lindsey Tonsager, Jadzia Pierce

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is responsible for interpreting and enforcing the act, and published draft regulat...


Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Antitrust battle continues between WGA, talent agencies

Oct. 28, 2019
By Michelle Lowery, Steven P. Vaughn

A Hollywood union’s recent amendments to its union rules sparked federal antitrust lawsuits by three of Hollywood’s top talent...


Labor/Employment

With the looming implementation of AB 5 many people in various trades and professions are asking, “Are we now employees?” One ...


Law Practice, Constitutional Law

The United States of America, it has been pointed out, was once a plural. Through grammar, you could discern that regionalism ...


Civil Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The panel held that before an arbitrator is officially engaged to perform an arbitration, to ensure that the parties’ acceptan...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory

New law roundup: California cannabis laws continue to grow and evolve

Oct. 28, 2019
By Joshua R. Mandell, Claudia Fu

This month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed numerous bills into law further refining California’s already comprehensive cannabis regu...


The IRS has issued two new pieces of guidance. These rules are IRS interpretations of existing law, which means the IRS could ...