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Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

The most artful attorneys can spar with opposing counsel, disagree with the judge, and have the jury nodding along with their ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Legal Education, Law Practice

Q&A with Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School

Aug. 12, 2021
By William Domnarski

The revered professor has been for 40 years one of the nation's preeminent constitutional scholars. He's known as a great teac...


Legal Education

A recent article in the Wall Street Journal lamented that law school has “lost its luster” as debts mount, salaries stagnate, ...


Civil Litigation

In a groundbreaking lawsuit, the Mexican government filed suit against eight American gun manufacturers, accusing them of bein...


Government, Constitutional Law

When Washington bureaucrats control the reins of power

Aug. 11, 2021
By Luke A. Wake, Ethan Blevins

Only days after admitting it needed Congress to help extend the eviction moratorium, the Biden administration went and did it ...


Technology, Law Practice

Lawyers are legally bound by existing rules that require various stringent duties to communicate with their clients. A kerfuff...


QSFs have blossomed into important as they possess remarkable tax efficiency.


Criminal

According to District Attorney George Gascón, "The past four decades have not made us any safer." This recent ahistorical stat...


Civil Litigation, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Making sense of the FAA exemption paradox

Aug. 10, 2021
By Kevin Ruf

Courts have long struggled with the so-called “interstate commerce exemption” under the Federal Arbitration Act.


Government, Constitutional Law

COVID can’t cancel the Constitution

Aug. 10, 2021
By Harmeet K. Dhillon, Michael A. Columbo

California has led the nation in responding to COVID-19 challenges with sweeping, unilateral executive decrees, rulemaking and...


Labor/Employment, California Supreme Court

State high court: pay meal and rest period premiums at regular rate

Aug. 10, 2021
By Jasmine Shams, Jason Morris

As many California employers know all too well, California’s employment compliance landscape is a dense maze that is constantl...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mediating emotional employment disputes during COVID-19

Aug. 10, 2021
By Stephen Sonnenberg

Before the pandemic, in workplaces different than many today, there was no shortage of employment disputes. Allegations of dis...


Real Estate/Development

Security deposits

MCLE
Aug. 9, 2021
By David Greene, Joseph Kellener

Security deposits are the most common fight we encounter between landlord and tenant — and the bigger the deposit, the bigger ...


Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation

It is a question many intellectual property lawyers navigating a potential infringement case have undoubtedly pondered: How ma...


Entertainment & Sports

Are unions the answer for college athletes?

Aug. 9, 2021
By Frank N. Darras

A bill recently introduced in Congress would allow some college athletes to unionize and classify themselves as employees. As ...


Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation

Bested by their rival Canada in the semifinals, they failed to reach the gold-medal match for a second straight Olympics. At t...


Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation

Black Windows: Scarlett Jo vs Disney

Aug. 6, 2021
By Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson

“The truth rarely makes sense when you omit key details.” These words, spoken by Florence Pugh to Scarlett Johansson in “Black...


Tax, Government

Congressional attempts to secure former President Donald Trump’s tax returns and related tax information is in the news again ...


Entertainment & Sports

Olympic reflections: the rules, the judges, the organization

Aug. 6, 2021
By Robert L. Bastian Jr.

If the most potent existential threats to the Olympic Games are war and terrorism, pandemic also makes the podium. This year, ...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports, Books

Q&A with ‘Lincoln Lawyer’ author Michael Connelly

Aug. 5, 2021
By William Domnarski

Known mostly these days for his character Harry Bosch–he of the popular television series bearing his name–best-selling Los An...


Insurance

Time for California to reform insurance requirements

Aug. 5, 2021
By Miguel A. Custodio

If California is proud of its position as the nation’s progressive bastion, it is absurd that it lets its residents go bankrup...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Effective strategies for lawyers considering transitioning to retirement

Aug. 5, 2021
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

Attorneys may take varied views on the prospect of retirement. Some wish to remain practicing attorneys, or at least affiliate...


Government, Administrative/Regulatory

The CFPB’s war on discrimination

Aug. 5, 2021
By Scott M. Pearson, John A. Kimble

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will soon be weighing in on the national conversation on discrimination with actions,...


Whenever money changes hands, there are tax issues, and that is certainly true with the legal settlement by celebrity Chef Mar...


Law Practice

What Simone Biles can teach us lawyers

Aug. 4, 2021
By Anthony J. Mohr

Over 20 years ago, during a business trip to Los Angeles, an old law school friend managed to sneak in an hour for dinner with...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Alzheimer’s: Will you know what to do?

Aug. 4, 2021
By Robert M. Heller

Part 4: Litigators’ duties owed to clients with Alzheimer’s


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

Butting in on appeal

MCLE
Aug. 3, 2021
By Benjamin G. Shatz

As originally enacted in 1872, CCP Section 387 specified that “any person may, before trial, intervene” which courts interpret...


Construction, Civil Litigation

While a “subrogated insurer is said to ‘stand in the shoes’ of its insured, because it has no greater rights than the insured....


Technology, Law Practice

When AI is the criminal

Aug. 3, 2021
By Lance Eliot

Besides using AI for the good of mankind, there is also the opposite side of the coin and the application of AI to commit crim...


Military Law

Women veterans behind bars

Aug. 3, 2021
By Eileen C. Moore

America must do more to keep women veterans out of jail.