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Extensive sanctions against Russia led businesses to move operations to nations without Western sanctions, making certain post...


Technology

AI company enables voice cloning so anyone can put words in your mouth, and similar to AI-generated video and photographs, it ...


Tax

Are trusts tax-saving, tax-neutral or risky?

Jan. 23, 2024
By Robert W. Wood

Does a revocable trust save you taxes? No, but it doesn’t cost you taxes either. In an irrevocable trust, you can’t take your ...


Labor/Employment

Protecting workers from retaliation and unequal pay

Jan. 23, 2024
By Matthew J. Matern, Clare E. Moran

Many hourly wage workers live in economic precarity, which may make them afraid to raise pay issues with their employers and r...


Human trafficking is happening in places you might not expect and what the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice is doing to ...


Tax

$80 billion bipartisan tax plan in the works

Jan. 22, 2024
By Phil Jelsma

The deal provides three key tax breaks that Southern California businesses have been pursuing, and double taxation has been el...


U.S. Supreme Court

Over the past 40 years, the Chevron doctrine has become a staple of administrative law. The Supreme Court has cited Che...


Recent cases affirm a duty to defend, and insurance coverage, even for economic losses without allegations of bodily injury.


Intellectual Property

When fandom and copyright infringement collide

Jan. 22, 2024
By Dale Nelson

A recent legal decision reinforces copyright protection for J.R.R. Tolkien’s original works against fan fiction dupes.


Immigration

Each year the FBI conducts training to consular officials regarding the meaning of tattoos and which ones could indicate gang ...


Entertainment & Sports

Investigations in Hollywood – there’s no business like show business

Jan. 19, 2024
By Matthias H. Wagener, Michael A. Robbins

When conducting an investigation that has attracted media publicity, an investigator should be mindful of how that publicity c...


Wills, Estates & Trusts, California Supreme Court

Top five trusts and estates cases of 2023

MCLE
Jan. 19, 2024
By Ciarán O’Sullivan

The California Supreme Court issued no Trusts and Estates opinions in 2023, but there were a wide and interesting variety of t...


Family

Why some Californians may want to get divorced in Arizona

Jan. 19, 2024
By Alphonse Provinziano

Legislation passed in Arizona last summer has created differences between the two states, in both the potential amount and dur...


Constitutional Law

A police warrantless blood draw ruled improper

Jan. 18, 2024
By Dmitry Gorin, Alan Eisner

An initially conscious and lucid suspect who becomes unconscious, or seemingly unconscious, requires law enforcement to obtain...


Individual case inventories increased because few cases were ready for trial in the first two years of the pandemic, and settl...


Intellectual Property

Determination of reasonable royalty is often difficult to prove and can leave a large portion of the profits with the infringe...


Government

Private prisons in America: punishment for profit

Jan. 18, 2024
By K. Chike Odiwe

Because of the way contracts are constructed between private prisons and the government, private prisons depend on being at fu...


California Supreme Court

The California Supreme Court declined to review a significant appellate court ruling related to public disclosure of peace off...


Constitutional Law

Is Donald Trump disqualified from being president?

Jan. 17, 2024
By Erwin Chemerinsky

It is tempting to be dismissive and speculate that the conservative Roberts Court, with three justices appointed by Trump, wou...


Constitutional Law

In light of recent and upcoming political events, as well as the current divisive political climate, the need for civic educat...


California’s attempts to tax nonresidents often lead to controversies, as evidenced by the well-publicized tax disputes that m...


U.S. Supreme Court

California exactions – one more time

Jan. 16, 2024
By Michael M. Berger

We revisit Sheetz v. County of El Dorado today because the United States Supreme Court accepted the invitation, granted...


Appellate Practice

Using ‘old’ precedent cases

Jan. 16, 2024
By Myron Moskovitz

What lawyers think of old cases is not important. What counts for advocates is what our targets - the judges - t...


Entertainment & Sports

The NCAA transfer portal is populated with rising stars in college athletics, and thousands of followers are devoted to tracki...


Judges and Judiciary

We become so accustomed to our own processes that it is easy to forget how unfamiliar and daunting they can feel to someone in...


Litigation & Arbitration

The absence of a standardized definition for “clean” allows manufacturers facing legal challenges to argue that additional mat...


Labor/Employment

New law requires employers to grant leave for 'reproductive loss'

Jan. 12, 2024
By Kacey R. Riccomini, Joseph Scott

Reproductive loss is broadly defined under the new California law. A “reproductive loss event” can occur over one or more days...


Judges and Judiciary

Not stipulating to a commissioner, sometimes at the last minute, has created a hole in the legal system which is rife for dela...


Criminal

Will increased penalties reduce theft?

Jan. 12, 2024
By Laura W. Halgren

It is true that options for dealing with convicted shoplifters are more limited under Proposition 47, but are the options any ...


Labor/Employment, Environmental & Energy, Corporate

With increased green marketing claims comes greater scrutiny, which courts are taking seriously.