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Government, Administrative/Regulatory

Slouching towards an electronic frontier

Feb. 16, 2018
By Jason S. Leiderman

Grateful Dead lyricist and internet activist John Perry Barlow passed away last week. So who will pick up where he left off?


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Criminal, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal

The California Supreme Court revised an expert’s ability to rely on hearsay not long ago. Earn MCLE credit catching up with wh...


U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights

America’s first civil rights case: The Amistad

Feb. 16, 2018
By James Attridge

History's ultimate "bar exam question" is the fact pattern in United States v. Libellants of the Schooner Amistad, the U.S. Su...


Securities, Government, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

Recent remarks by SEC Chair Jay Clayton suggest the commission is taking a common-sense approach to its role in regulating vir...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

30 tips for avoiding legal malpractice claims

Feb. 16, 2018
By Dan L. Stanford

During over three decades of prosecuting legal malpractice claims, I have been asked over and over again for concrete ideas to...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

In a mediation, simply hoping that the plane won't crash in the face of objective evidence that might just do that is hardly a...


Tax, Administrative/Regulatory

Taxes are an ever-present danger, and it is clear that the IRS is on the hunt. The IRS is pursing tax enforcement with summons...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice

Brian Panish of Los Angeles: A vanishing breed

Feb. 15, 2018
By James R. Rosen

His eye-popping trial verdicts and record-setting results over the last two-plus decades are already legendary.


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal

A penny for your thoughts

Feb. 15, 2018
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

“The only constant is change.” Heraclitus may have been talking about life. But he might as well have been talking about the c...


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property, Corporate

Federal Circuit illuminates two-prong direct infringement test

Feb. 15, 2018
By Andrea Jill Weiss Jeffries, Steven J. Corr

A ruling clarifies that parties without a contractual relationship who each perform separate steps of a method claim can satis...


Civil Litigation, Insurance, Administrative/Regulatory

Insuring the product liability risks of cannabis

Feb. 15, 2018
By Ian A. Stewart, Francis J. Mootz

Businesses must be careful to ensure that they are properly insured for the substantial risks they face.


Criminal

On Feb. 5, San Francisco's public defender, Jeffrey Adachi, wrote an op-ed for the L.A. Times criticizing judges' and prosecut...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights, State Bar & Bar Associations

Law clinics key to bridging access-to-justice gap

Feb. 14, 2018
By Michael Waterstone

On Wednesday, Loyola Law School will formally open our Loyola Social Justice Law Clinic, a consolidated space on campus.


Labor/Employment, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Let’s talk about a ‘hybrid’ worker

Feb. 14, 2018
By Eric B. Kingsley

Last week, a federal judge ruled that Raef Lawson was not an employee of GrubHub during his four-month stint as a driver for t...


Government, Constitutional Law

The president and the law

Feb. 13, 2018
By Erwin Chemerinsky

Law professors and lawyers must provide clear answers on president questions.


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights

Having cake in Kern County

Feb. 13, 2018
By Julie A. Werner-Simon

People clamored onto the courthouse steps in the case of the baker who declined to make a cake for a gay couple’s nuptials — o...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

2018 starting off great for anti-piracy advocates

Feb. 13, 2018
By Brandon T. Milostan, Douglas E. Mirell

First, an ISP was held liable for not blocking a copyright infringer, and now a California federal court has issued an injunct...


Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The 9th Circuit is at the intersection of the First Amendment and public health with American Beverage Association v. City and...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law

Our Constitution keeps on ticking

Feb. 13, 2018
By Kris Whitten

We do not know how current disputes will be resolved, but thanks to the Constitution’s Framers, we have a process for resolvin...


Transportation, Government, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

The future of privacy

Feb. 13, 2018
By Jonathan A. Michaels

Consider that the first space shuttle contained some 500,000 lines of software code. Today, the average 2018 automobile contai...


Labor/Employment

Workplace romance in the age of #metoo

Feb. 13, 2018
By Danielle H. Moore, Megan E. Walker

With the confessional floodgates open, our current society has a renewed awareness of harassment likely unseen since Anita Hil...


Government, Environmental & Energy, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

While most of the 2018 revisions have been characterized as simple clarifications, they also appear likely to spawn an entire ...


Civil Litigation, Corporate, Construction, California Supreme Court

Intentional interference claims and losing bidders

Feb. 13, 2018
By Garret D. Murai

What about after a contract is awarded? Is there a remedy available to unsuccessful bidders after an apparent low bidder is aw...


Tax, Government, Banking

If passed, Arizona's Senate Bill 1091 would allow income taxes to be paid in bitcoin and other cryptocurrency that is approved...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

When an attorney discovers she has received privileged documents in error, crucial ethics questions arise, and they have serio...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

Got a WOTUS challenge? Go straight to district court

Feb. 12, 2018
By Clark Morrison, Julia Stein

The U.S. Supreme Court has unanimously held that challenges to the so-called "Waters of the United States" rule must be heard ...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, Criminal, Civil Rights

‘Public defender’ isn’t just another job

Feb. 12, 2018
By Brendon D. Woods

The Los Angeles public defender has the potential to be the most influential public defender in the nation — and the office mu...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

First Amendment protection has practical limits. What if, for example, counterspeech proves to be ineffective, and tens of tho...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory

Drone Searches: A New Frontier for the Fourth Amendment

MCLE
Feb. 12, 2018
By Brandon K. Franklin, Kevin O. Moon

The use of drones spurs reassessment of time-honored privacy concerns.


Law Practice, Government

John Adams: John Hancock’s very own consiglieri

Feb. 9, 2018
By James Attridge

Americans all know that your signature is also called your John Hancock, after the patriot who signed the Declaration of Indep...