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Entertainment & Sports

Recent developments in the right of privacy

Jul. 22, 2021
By Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson

A dressing room invasion and a dispute between neighbors are the subjects of recent appellate decisions.


Labor/Employment

One of the more interesting outcomes of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the reluctance of many workers to go back to their prio...


Environmental & Energy

A year ago, the country was led by someone who railed against climate change as a hoax, and whose underlings were forbidden to...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary

Our nation and our people are strongly but fairly evenly divided. Both sides claim the high ground. Too many of us irrationall...


Technology

Wearable NFC tags could be a boon for criminals

Jul. 21, 2021
By Anita Taff-Rice

The Smartnail is being offered by a nail Salon called Lanour Beauty Lounge in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The wearer can shar...


Government, Environmental & Energy

When the 15 agencies of the executive branch unite behind a core goal, it is time to take notice.


Technology, Law Practice

A longstanding parable in AI is that there might someday be a super-intelligent system that would seek to attain a human-provi...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

Led by its conservative majority, the U.S. Supreme Court has actively reshaped takings jurisprudence in recent years.


California Supreme Court

‘Jurassic’ Wisdom

Jul. 20, 2021
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

A five-justice majority of the California Supreme Court recently held that appellate courts owed no deference to a trial court...


Civil Rights, California Supreme Court

It is time to approach the officials with ultimate responsibility over legal ethics and the delivery of competent legal servic...


Insurance, Education Law

No one plans a pandemic, but ultimately someone must pay for it. In the United States, lawmakers have responded to the crisis ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government

In Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee, a six-justice U.S. Supreme Court majority sent a message to the country: If you...


Tax, Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Litigation

Sisters Kourtney, Kim and Khloe Kardashian won their suit for royalties from the makeup line Kardashian Beauty.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

On aggressive trial court briefs

Jul. 19, 2021
By Myron Moskovitz

In these bi-monthly columns, I pontificate on appellate brief writing from my lofty perch as an appellate know-it-all. But do ...


Law Practice

Law and motion overview

MCLE
Jul. 19, 2021
By Sunil R. Kulkarni

The objective of this article and accompanying self-study quiz is to familiarize readers with California law and motion proced...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Alzheimer’s: Will you know what to do?

Jul. 19, 2021
By Robert M. Heller

Part 2: The duties owed by partners of afflicted lawyer


Law Practice, Civil Litigation

Many attorneys anticipate the meet-and-confer process as eagerly as a dentist visit, but it can nonetheless prove useful; in m...


U.S. Supreme Court

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld your constitutional right to privacy of association. On July 1, in a 6-3 opinion in American...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

In my many years as a litigation and trial lawyer, I recommended and helped select a lot of mediators. I also participated in ...


Civil Litigation

The U.S. Supreme Court has another opportunity to finally end the battle over the enforceability of pre-dispute arbitration ag...


Candace Cooper, formerly of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, discusses her experience on the bench.


Ethics/Professional Responsibility

California’s historic adoption of new ethics rules in 2018 is now behind us, but the switch to the American Bar Association’s ...


Technology, Law Practice

Some assert that the advent of AI has increasingly become unruly and is precipitously veering toward lawlessness. AI systems a...


Construction, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal

Construction Corner: Enter equitable subrogation

Jul. 15, 2021
By Garret D. Murai

Typically, subrogation is a matter of contract and the rights and responsibilities of parties are set forth within the terms o...


Civil Rights

According to data from the last Homeless Count in 2020, the city will have to house more than 66,000 people. Now it’s time to ...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Entertainment & Sports, Civil Rights

Why won’t the court free Britney?

Jul. 14, 2021
By Timothy D. Reuben, Stephanie I. Blum

The Britney scenario is an embarrassment to the California justice system. One can only hope that those who are involved with...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a case in which plaintiff members of two ERISA pension plans claimed tha...


It will come as no surprise to practitioners that discovery issues routinely arise in family law cases. This makes perfect sen...


Labor/Employment

As businesses across the nation were buffeted by the pandemic last year, we witnessed an unprecedented number of closures and ...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Alzheimer’s: Will you know what to do?

Jul. 14, 2021
By Robert M. Heller

Part 1: The duties owed by afflicted lawyers