The Cultural Competency Seminar in Family Law Practice 2024 focuses on the difficulties of communication in cultural and profe...
Civil Procedure, Alternative Dispute Resolution
The benefits of mediating HOA disputes
In most cases, California homeowners' associations must resolve disputes under the Davis-Stirling Common Interest Development ...
The California Supreme Court has removed a ballot measure from the November 2024 ballot that would have broadened the definiti...
Administrative/Regulatory
The Supreme Court's decision in ...
The Supreme Court has ruled against allowing a plan of reorganization to give the equivalent of a bankruptcy discharge to thir...
Labor/Employment
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have conflicting views on the...
Technology
With numerous AI bills in play, California businesses face uncertainty in AI regulation. This article and MCLE test explores k...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Bankruptcy
Purdue Pharma correctly interprets the bankruptcy code
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Bankruptcy Code does not authorize a non-bankruptcy discharge that extinguishes clai...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law two bills that significantly reform the California Private Attorneys’ Ge...
Torts/Personal Injury
California recognizes that a defendant owes a duty of care for injuries that occur on property which it does not own when the ...
A court must find that the employer intentionally created or knowingly permitted working conditions to exist that were so into...
U.S. Supreme Court, Securities
The Supreme Court’s ruling in Jarkesy v. SEC, which gave defendants the right to a jury trial before facing monetary pe...
The public should be aware of the sacrifices and consequences of drone warfare, and the courts should be prepared to address t...
Constitutional Law
The majority’s ruling could allow the government to indirectly censor speech by pressuring social media companies behind the s...
The press has a duty to correct misrepresentations and ensure the public can make informed choices, especially during a presid...
Education Law, Constitutional Law
Two students won a $1 million jury verdict after being wrongly expelled, setting a precedent for addressing procedural abuses ...
State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
Aware that many other states would severely restrict or entirely ban abortion care, ORLP sought ethical guidance from the Cali...
Family
Adoptive parents frequently encounter legal and financial hurdles when finalizing adoptions, often lacking the same access to ...
The justice reflects on a Sunday morning ritual, maintaining standards of excellence in the legal profession and the loss of a...
California has amended its Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) and is awaiting a signature from Gov. Gavin Newsom. The amendm...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
The Supreme Court is set to decide two cases, NetChoice, LLC v. Attorney General, Florida, and ...
Tax, California Supreme Court
The California Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could limit the ability of taxpayers to sue public agencies and offici...
The California Supreme Court found no racial bias when a District Attorney excluded Black women from a jury, but racial justic...
Probate
There has been no judicial interpretation or construction of the phrase "probable cause" in the context of a direct contest, a...
Women judges have enriched and improved the legal system by bringing their unique experiences and perspectives to the bench.
The United States Supreme Court's 1873 decision in Bradwell v. Illinois allowed states to exclude women from certain pr...
Women in their late 30s to early 50s often find themselves in a "sandwich generation" phase, where they are responsible for ca...
Bankruptcy
Thinking out loud about revised Civil Code 2924m, which allows more time for bidding and may permit a bankruptcy filing after ...
Shippers and carriers may face huge losses or disputes if they neglect or omit the details of their contracts, such as the val...
DEI, Civil Rights, Appellate Practice
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Fearless Fund’s Strivers Grant Contest, which provides $20,000 to busine...