Social media activity provides rich resource for informal discovery, as long as each website's rules are abided. By Michelle S...
Litigation
It's the most wonderful time of year... for cybercriminals
By Daniel B. Garrie
As the number and severity of data breaches have increased in recent years, there has been a corresponding rise in data breach...
Labor/Employment, Administrative/Regulatory
High noon in the workplace: employees gone green
By Wendy L. Patrick
Despite the results of the November election, marijuana remains illegal at the federal, and regulating its use in the workforc...
Administrative/Regulatory
New powdered alcohol ban could prove difficult to enforce
By Molly A. Jones
The same properties that lawmakers believe make powdered alcohol a health and safety concern will make AB 1554 difficult to en...
Uber's difficulty with the DMV when it attempted to roll out self-driving cars in California highlights the need for the feder...
A recent study concluded that women appear in civil trials less often than men, and when they do appear, are far less...
All attorneys should be aware that federal law requires government entities and businesses to provide reasonable accommodation...
Recently, the California Court of Appeal reversed a premature dismissal of a lawsuit challenging California's microstamping re...
9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Ruling ups likelihood high court will weigh in on class action question
By Neal R. Marder, Ali R. Rabbani
On Tuesday, in a widely anticipated ruling, the 9thCircuit added its voice to the federal circuit split over class certificati...
Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) ...
When a strategic investor invests in a startup, it often results in an immediate and fundamental conflict of interest. By John...
The Delaware Supreme Court recently held that a director's co-ownership of a private airplane with the company's CEO and contr...
The IRS is pushing to obtain identifying information on countless "John Does" who have used digital currencies like bitcoin on...
A recent appellate court ruling has ended a nearly two-year legal fight blocking a safe and affordable energy supply for San D...
"Even if you are skeptical about the science of climate change, there is no escaping a swelling tide of climate-related regula...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Review the restrictions on attorney-client agreements
By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. Klevens
It is important that attorneys carefully review their fee agreements and engagement/retainer letters to ensure that they compl...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
2016 in review: attorneys as defendants
By Kenneth C. Feldman, Alex A. Graft
Although there were no earth-shattering appellate opinions in cases against attorneys in 2016, attorney-defendants did achieve...
A California Court of Appeal was recently called upon to determine the timeliness of an anti-SLAPP motion challenging not an i...
Transportation
Hacked automobiles are a threat we must deal with today
By Jonathan A. Michaels
What has begun as a crude act of driving a vehicle into a crowd could morph into a cyberattack on vehicles on a mass scale. To...
Administrative/Regulatory
Look ahead to autonomous vehicle law in 2017
By Michael W. Reynolds
With 2016 now in the rear view mirror, it is time to look forward to a year that promises self-driving cars on public roads in...
Litigation
Title II and the Unruh Act: proving discriminatory intent
By Gary S. Ganchrow
Must a claimant who asserts an Unruh Act violation based upon Title II of the ADA as part of his claim also prove discriminato...
As civil RICO litigation grows, courts must decide whether interests in judgments qualify as "property" By William Thomson Sha...
Orange County Judge Mary Varipapa works hard to help people with substance abuse problems.
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Excess insurers can sue if primary insurer fails to settle within limits
By Barry Zalma
The California Court of Appeal was recently asked to apply the covenant of good faith and fair dealing to a primary insurer wh...
Most of us do not reply to everything, but replies are helpful so clients, colleagues and co-counsel are all on the same page....
There lessons to be drawn from the history of presidential communication with the public that should enable Trump to make the ...
Last year, California courts rendered a number of interesting insurance coverage decisions. Here's a review of some of the mor...
Appellate Practice
Know what the box is before you think outside of it
By Myron Moskovitz
You can't really understand the forest — the American justice system — in front of you unless you've already viewed some other...
If you're a corporation and you lose a big case in the federal appellate courts, having the U.S. Supreme Court grant certiorar...
Rep. Darrell Issa recently said he intends to explore how Congress might answer the following question: "Where's the line of y...