Law Practice
Lawyers can refresh their practices for ‘back to school’ season
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair
Lawyers can use this time of year to evaluate their internal procedures and take steps to reduce risk.
U.S. Supreme Court, Law Practice, Civil Rights
A candid look at 'diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging' in the legal profession
By Angela Reddock-Wright
Lawsuits have been filed against Perkins Coie and Morrison and Foerster challenging their DEI internship programs. Both firms ...
Tax
Are tax preparation companies actively working to undermine the IRS’ direct file system?
By Morgan Gray
Many taxpayers spend hours itemizing deductions without realizing that the standard deduction is often a better choice, which ...
Entertainment & Sports
Stream It Tonight! "The End" (September, 2023)
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman
Lawyers have been heard to say things like “I’m immersed in law all day, I want to escape from the law when I watch movies or ...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Remembering Korean Air Lines Flight 007 forty years later
By Michael E. Rubinstein
The tragic downing of Flight 007 came at the height of the Cold War. For many years, courts in the United States, including he...
Torts/Personal Injury, Entertainment & Sports
The thug. The actress. Her daughter. And homicide.
By John S. Caragozian
Crane went downstairs into the kitchen, got a knife, and returned upstairs. She waited outside her mother’s bedroom door; when...
Letters
My concerns about the guest column on fringe legal theories
By Zacharias Tripodes
These columns promote fringe legal theories with potential appeal on talk radio but lack substantive value for the majority of...
Assuming that Congress had enacted the Incorporation Doctrine as law, to apply the Bill of Rights (substantive law) to the sta...
Securities, Entertainment & Sports
The pitfalls of celebrity shilling
By Ron S. Geffner
Prior to FTX, the risks of celebrities endorsing companies were evident, with the U.S. SEC investigating and settling cases wi...
Civil Procedure, Civil Litigation
A new frontier: Enforcing money judgments on cryptocurrencies
By Amanda A. Main
Judgment enforcement is highly technical, varies state-by-state, and can involve complex interactions between state and federa...
Letters
One attorneys’ brilliant logic and lasting importance on voting rights
By Albert H. Maldonado
Government, Environmental & Energy
Save the trees or harm the forest?
By Christopher Rheinheimer, Tessa Opalach
“The Save Our Sequoias Act suggests creating a Coalition of federal, state, and local entities to protect sequoia groves from ...
Constitutional Law
Boermeester v. Carry and Title IX: No hearings, no problem? Not quite
By Nia Wahl
Denying the opportunity to cross-examine a witness raises concerns about the credibility of their testimony, as it may enable ...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation
Proving the reasonable cost of past and future medical care
By Jamie G. Goldstein
When discussing healthcare with your clients, it’s crucial to explain the difference between the use of insurance, if availabl...
Intellectual Property, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Statutory copyright damages eligibility for group v. singular registration
By Dariush Adli
Despite the statutory provision labeling group or compilation registration as one work, case law makes clear that group regist...
Technology, Intellectual Property
The intersection of artificial intelligence and copyright law
By David Schnider
As AI tools become more prevalent, authors and artists find themselves collaborating with algorithms, raising the question of ...
Unpacking the potential Kaiser strike: A labor law perspective. Speculated to become the largest healthcare industry strike in...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law
Inflation Reduction Act empowers negotiations for Medicare cost reduction
By Anne Schneider
The Inflation Reduction Act gives the federal government the power to negotiate the price of certain drugs for Medicare benefi...
Machines are skilled at persuading each other, so if machines replaced human judges, engineers could understand the judge-mach...
Law Practice, Family
Litigation is not a substitute for rule of law, or the only end game
By Mark B. Baer
While litigation serves a very important purpose in our society, it is a process choice for dispute resolution. It is by no me...
Guide to Legal Writing
Apostrophic Apotheosis: Whose fees are they, anyway?
By Benjamin G. Shatz, Benjamin E. Strauss
“Is the proper term ‘attorney fees,’ ‘attorneys fees,’ ‘attorney’s fees,’ or ‘attorneys’ fees?’” The next time you’re struggli...
Family
Cultural Divorce, Part XII: Six billion ways to leave your marriage
By Abbas Hadjian
We co-exist with about eight billion other individuals, nearly six billion of us are above the age of 15 and biologically capa...
Law Practice
The many roles of jury consultants – why or why not to use them
By Mike Arias, Christopher A.J. Swift
Even the most experienced trial attorney would be lucky to have picked one hundred juries in their entire career. For this rea...
Class Action, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Bad facts make bad law, and it can cost you in MDL fees
By Paul R. Kiesel
This strategy is not recommended, but if you are not interested in paying common benefit fees for your cases, you should remai...
Once upon a time, we all believed that Judges could always be impartial, but we have since learned that we (like all humans) a...
Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation
Billing experts – directs and crosses
By Greyson M. Goody
Most billing experts are not medical doctors and became “experts” by taking a short course in billing. This article illuminat...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
New frontier for trust accounting
By Erin M. Joyce
As of July 1, over 1600 California attorneys were enrolled on administrative inactive status because they failed to complete t...
When you have a case that is low-impact, and thus has little to no property damage, it is important that you consider introduc...
Labor/Employment
Don’t forget about site inspections and #MeToo discovery in employment cases
By Christina M. Coleman
Site inspections and #MeToo discovery are not appropriate for every case. Nonetheless, the best practice is to simply put them...