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Administrative/Regulatory, U.S. Supreme Court

Future litigants may not see dramatic changes to the existing SOX retaliation claim framework from Murray, and further ...


Contracts, Entertainment & Sports

Many of our current legislators across America were former college athletes now living back home with enormous college stadium...


Judges and Judiciary

Your son needs to know that his dad was a hero

Oct. 24, 2023
By Lawrence P. Riff

An open letter to the widow and son of murdered Family Law Judge Andrew Wilkinson of Hagerstown, Maryland.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Letters

Addressing misconceptions and practical application under Rule 8.3

Oct. 24, 2023
By George Cardona, Erika Doherty

Every other jurisdiction has in place a version of American Bar Association Model Rule 8.3, and California’s rule includes the...


Intellectual Property, Technology

Because of the way that streaming services compensate artists, there is a real concern that a flood of AI-generated content wi...


Administrative/Regulatory, Environmental & Energy

Practical advice for companies preparing for California’s new emissions laws

Oct. 23, 2023
By David A. Niemeyer, Blake H. Bainou

While SB 253 and SB 261 are similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) proposed emissions disclosure rules that...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations

Part 2 – Internal and external threats

Oct. 23, 2023
By Jennifer Stalvey

The most common ways your Client Trust Accounts may be compromised from both internal and external sources, and how to help pr...


Expert Advice, Technology

How AI technology is transforming the legal landscape and holding unsavory experts accountable.


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Is arbitration truly cost-effective?

Oct. 23, 2023
By Tricia A. Bigelow

Arbitration may not be perfect, but it can provide significant value to litigants and the judicial system overall, taking burd...


Torts/Personal Injury

Uber wanted to put the brakes on sexual assault multidistrict litigation. Instead, a judicial panel transferred 13 cases to th...


Criminal, Government

Stop blaming the smash and grabs on Prop 47

Oct. 20, 2023
By Eugene M. Hyman

State legislators approved a bill in 2020 shortening the length of probation in most misdemeanor cases. It is this law – not P...


Criminal, Family

Discarding the reasonableness standard in DVROs muddies the process

Oct. 20, 2023
By Stephanie I. Blum, Timothy D. Reuben

Domestic violence restraining orders based on disturbing emotional calm should be subject to a reasonableness standard.


Tax

Is this week’s IRS extension a double mulligan?

Oct. 20, 2023
By Robert W. Wood

Apart from the tax filing and payment delays, there are other tax benefits too. Individuals and businesses in a federally decl...


Letters

One has to wonder if China truly protects its prisoners

Oct. 20, 2023
By William Slomanson

In 2022, a McMaster University health report stated that “China is the only country in the world to have an industrial-scale o...


How did this well-publicized gang operate for so many years with impunity? The likely answer is that the District Attorney nev...


Why not use an AI mediator?

Oct. 19, 2023
By David Coher

Mediation is not solely a technical or procedural process; it is deeply rooted in human interactions and the ability to empath...


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

SCOTUS should preserve tester standing under the ADA

Oct. 18, 2023
By Raymond A. Wendell

Because of the widespread fixation on serial litigation, a decision against Laufer would threaten not just avowed tester plain...


Letters, State Bar & Bar Associations

Portfolio Bar Exam: facts vs. fiction

Oct. 18, 2023
By Claire M. Solot

Legal aid organizations support the PBE, as it will help them recruit new staff attorneys, increase their capacity to serve th...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations

Rule 8.3 has the right intent, and one must not fault the powers that be for trying to take a meaningful step to curb unethica...


Alternative Dispute Resolution, U.S. Supreme Court

The issue might sound like a geeky question of statutory interpretation, but it has substantial real-world implications for wo...


Law Practice, Legal Education

It is common for law students to underestimate the power of networking. We are so focused on our studies that it is easy to fo...


Constitutional Law, U.S. Supreme Court

When a statute (or an executive order) is the product of the ordinary give-and-take of our messy democratic process, a judge s...


The Digital Services Act reaches the USA

Oct. 17, 2023
By Robert Spano, Vivek Mohan

U.S. companies must not bury their heads in the sand: while the DSA’s regulations are formally limited to online services that...


The road ahead for California’s property insurance landscape is one of cautious optimism. The impending changes to Proposition...


The Portfolio Bar Exam would not offer a free pass or easier path to candidates. It would instead be a more rigorous process d...


The future of the administrative state

Oct. 17, 2023
By Erwin Chemerinsky

The Supreme Court has not defined what is a major question or what is sufficient authorization from Congress to meet the major...


Civil Rights, Government

The state has enough tools to address our homelessness crisis without seeking the Supreme Court's intervention to allow for ci...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, State Bar & Bar Associations

Client Trust Accounts, Part 1 - The basics

Oct. 16, 2023
By Jennifer Stalvey

Attorneys have a duty to perform legal services with competence, which includes a nondelegable duty to oversee and properly ac...


This article explores the specific steps to halt the dissolution process, highlights some traps for the unwary, and encourages...


Government, State Bar & Bar Associations

It is time to restore confidence in the State Bar

Oct. 16, 2023
By Thomas J. Umberg

Like most lawyers, I have spent much of the last few years in shock as investigative journalists have, bit by bit, unraveled T...