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Technology, Intellectual Property

The intersection of AI and trademarks may include rights holders seeking to select marks using machine- generated output, uses...


Torts/Personal Injury

Can Google Maps be held liable for negligence?

Nov. 8, 2023
By Shain Wasser

The death of a man who followed outdated Google Map directions poses the question of whether GPS technology should be consider...


Technology, Government

While this is a positive step overall, the executive order lacks detail, and delegates the majority of AI rulemaking to existi...


Immigration, Government

Business leaders confronted with managing growing labor shortages and low domestic workforce participation numbers feel the br...


Constitutional Law

If it ain’t broke, why fix it?


Government, Environmental & Energy

The rippling implications of stringent climate disclosure laws

Nov. 7, 2023
By Matthew Morton, Annemargaret Connolly

California Gov. Newsom signs bills establishing corporate climate disclosure standards, while questioning the feasibility of t...


Civil Procedure

'Superior to what?' A brief explication of complication

MCLE
Nov. 7, 2023
By Benjamin G. Shatz

Today’s California court system is the largest in the United States, with some California appellate districts having larger po...


Government, Environmental & Energy

Carbon reduction claims require broad new disclosures

Nov. 7, 2023
By Peter Hsiao, David Lang

This article provides an overview of the disclosure requirements of AB 1305, the steps companies doing business in California ...


Judges and Judiciary

FACTS

Nov. 6, 2023
By Arthur Gilbert

It is redundant to refer to facts as true. It is illogical to refer to facts as false. If they are false, they are not facts. ...


California considers custody of children as a matter of public policy. It is closely legislated and diligently enforced. As a ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Securities

At stake is not just the SEC’s power to enforce federal securities law in administrative proceedings, but decades of precedent...


Labor/Employment

The compliance pitfalls of the Workplace Violence Prevention Law

Nov. 6, 2023
By Rachel L. Conn, Andrea Chavez

The new law requires virtually all employers to implement a workplace violence prevention plan by July 1, 2024, and expands th...


State Bar & Bar Associations

Can the State Bar of California, despite its reluctance, issue a statement condemning atrocities committed by Hamas in Israel?


Law Practice

Closure is a myth

Nov. 6, 2023
By Matt Sahak

There is a fundamental difference between legal resolution and emotional healing. While a court judgment or settlement may res...


Torts/Personal Injury, Letters

Many trial lawyers did not see an end to fair and just jury verdicts. Instead, we realized that trial lawyers needed to stop r...


Technology, Intellectual Property, Government

What distinguishes the NO FAKES Act from many of the right of publicity statutes currently in place in various states is that ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Incivility can cost you

Nov. 3, 2023
By Denise Madigan

The appeals court noted that the trial court did not have to find that the plaintiff’s counsel’s comments or behavior directly...


Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure

Come fly with us – if it’s not moot

Nov. 3, 2023
By Alyssa D. Bell, Martin J. Cristopher Santos

Voluntary cessation in No-Fly-List cases: Will the Supreme Court let a more lenient standard for the government fly?


Labor/Employment, Government

California passes new noncompete legislation

Nov. 3, 2023
By Julia Y. Trankiem, Michael A. Pearlson

Attempting to enforce noncompete agreements within California may expose current and former employers to liability.


Criminal, Constitutional Law

Although Penal Code section 679.026(b) requires that victims be told of their right to counsel, it does not specify who must t...


For now, President Biden’s executive order lays a promising foundation for AI oversight, but lacks the enforcement teeth to co...


Wills, Estates & Trusts, California Courts of Appeal

Appellate ruling limits appearances by trustees and executors in pro per

MCLE
Nov. 2, 2023
By Mark J. Phillips, Jake V. Phillips

The recent case of Sanchez v. Peralta (filed 8/9/23, Sixth Appellate District) brings new clarity to the ability of fid...


Intellectual Property

Navigating the innovation maze

Nov. 2, 2023
By Puya Partow-Navid

Opting for patents or trade secrets for your intellectual property come with distinct legal implications and protective scopes.


Government, Constitutional Law

Balancing free speech and government interests

Nov. 2, 2023
By Christopher Rosario

Understanding the limitations on government employees’ speech is essential to maintaining the integrity of government institut...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government

The heavy penalties for noncompliance have been labeled “extortion” by Pharma. They have also been called “turning up to a fig...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, California Courts of Appeal

Now, every prevailing plaintiff’s attorney can expect to see defense counsel comb through every email and correspondence in th...


Legal Education, Criminal

In 1932, U.S. President Herbert Hoover established the federal Wickersham Commission to investigate law enforcement in the U.S...


Constitutional Law

California won’t dodge gun-ownership historical analysis

Nov. 1, 2023
By Dmitry Gorin, Alan Eisner

California may have good public policy arguments for banning the most commonly-owned types of rifles in the country, or all gu...


Torts/Personal Injury, Labor/Employment

Employers win in "take-home" COVID era

Nov. 1, 2023
By Jonathan J. Brown, Antwoin Wall

In California, following Kuciemba v. Victory Woodworks, Inc., the law on "take-home COVID" has been settled: Employers ...


Law Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Discussions on “agreeing to disagree” by Deborah Enix-Ross and James Gray Robinson in the American Bar Association underscore ...