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Mergers & Acquisitions, Law Practice


Without adequate foresight, a client may find that control of the privilege is now in the hands of the successor corporation.


Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property


Until a recent Federal Circuit ruling, the practical application of these duties and burdens in litigation was hotly disputed,...


Civil Litigation, Law Practice, Appellate Practice


Navigating Appeals

Apr. 16, 2018

Set sail on a voyage through the California Rules of Court for civil appeals. The booty: MCLE credit.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice


Proposed revisions to the Rules of Court would modify the rules for attorneys in conservatorship proceedings.


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law


A duty to de-escalate

Apr. 12, 2018

It’s time for a new standard: Police should be legally required to de-escalate or use alternatives to deadly force whenever po...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Government


Lawsuits should not be the first recourse to sound mental health policy and effective programs.


Civil Litigation, Government, Administrative/Regulatory


The commission was so preoccupied with whether or not it could regulate short-term rentals, it didn't stop to think if it should.


International Law, Government, Constitutional Law, Administrative/Regulatory


On March 23, President Donald Trump signed a law that could undo the very protections for privacy and autonomy that American c...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, Letters


When any of us fail to “take actions that place the good of society above self-interest,” the public perception of the integri...


Judges and Judiciary, Law Practice


Crayfish to judges

Apr. 2, 2018

Note to valued readers: What appears in the following column is not an April Fools' joke. Please observe that the publication ...


Law Practice, Government, Letters, Judges and Judiciary


As Justice Anthony Kline reminds us, certain developments in recent years have threatened to make it more difficult for courts...


Government, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals


If courts allow companies to use the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act to block automated access by competitors, it will threaten o...


Law Practice


The widening gap between how the law is expected to be (and generally is) practiced, and certain events transpiring in our pol...


Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, Government


During Monday’s State of the Judiciary address, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye once again called on California lawmakers...


California Courts of Appeal, Government, Criminal


Does the judicial branch ever tell the political branches of government, "Hold my beer"? The recent efforts to reform Californ...


Judges and Judiciary, Government, Letters


We feel the recent story on Jerry Brown’s judicial picks doesn’t paint an accurate picture of all that the governor has done t...


Judges and Judiciary, Government


I am generally pleased to note that the vast majority of the current field of candidates for Los Angeles County Superior Court...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Judges and Judiciary


The California primary election takes place on June 5. The state’s general election follows on Nov. 6. This includes the elect...


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


Not my vote

Mar. 5, 2018

For now, unless I have reason not to do so, all incumbent judges have my vote.


Judges and Judiciary, Government


Now that it is election season, the legal community once again will turn part of its focus upon the upcoming elections for sup...


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


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


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


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...


Criminal, Government, Judges and Judiciary, Civil Rights


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, Administrative/Regulatory


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


Judges and Judiciary, State Bar & Bar Associations


The Golden State should reform unnecessary, out-of-date and overly protectionist bar admission policies in federal district co...


Intellectual Property


The ruling is the first to hold an internet service provider liable for copyright infringement by its customers, making it a c...


Letters, Judges and Judiciary


Judges are required to be fair, neutral and impartial and to be perceived as such at all times.


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary


Suffice it to say, when addressing Siri, I did not use the four-letter word, the first letter of which appears toward the last...


A Riverside case involves the right of people with developmental disabilities to marry as well as the right not to be pressure...


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


The Constitution protects an adult’s personal decision to engage in intimate, sexual activity with another adult, whether the ...