U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Government
Supreme Court to hear important Voting Rights Act case
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a pair of cases involving Arizona’s prohibition of so-called “ballot...
Judges and Judiciary, Community News
Last week, the Kern County Multicultural Bar Alliance held a panel addressing the important issue of the elimination of bias f...
Increasingly, our armed forces are imperiled by toxic hazards that have adverse effects on their health. Those who served in I...
On Sept. 23, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted certain amendments to the procedural requirements and resubmission...
Probate, Labor/Employment, Covid Columns
This recently enacted federal legislation has dramatically changed estate planning for retirement benefits.
The bill codifies an employer’s reporting requirements in the event of COVID-19 infections at the workplace and clarifies Cal/...
Covid Columns, Civil Litigation
On Sept. 18, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved Senate Bill 1146, codifying current COVID-19 Emergency Rules of Court 11 and 12 as Cal...
Government, Criminal, Covid Columns, Administrative/Regulatory
New DOJ priority: targeting pandemic stimulus fraud
Significant infusions of government resources into the private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted focus on a ne...
Number 299, but who’s really counting?
Judges and Judiciary, Covid Columns
COVID-19 has not stopped judicial outreach programs. But it will change them. Judicial outreach will emerge stronger and bette...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Covid Columns
Defining “medical necessity” in the context of medical and surgical benefits has already been a challenge for health care, and...
Entertainment & Sports, Covid Columns
Hollywood takes precautions as production resumes
As summer turns to fall, movie and TV production is just beginning to gear up in the face of a pandemic that is showing little...
Labor/Employment, Covid Columns
Neither the courts nor federal agencies have addressed whether an employer-mandated COVID-19 vaccination requirement is lawful...
Real Estate/Development, Law Office Management, Covid Columns
The Great COVID-19 Office Migration: winners and losers
Businesses and investors can get ahead by embracing the changes that are here to stay.
Parties use a judge pro tem to ensure a decision maker is knowledgeable in the law applicable to the dispute as well as having...
Labor/Employment, Covid Columns
Earlier this month, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill to impose notice, record keeping and safety obligations on employers in Ca...
Health Care & Hospital Law, Entertainment & Sports, Covid Columns
The COVID-19 edition of the 2020 NCAA college football season is unlike any of the previous 150 seasons.
Legal Education, State Bar & Bar Associations
In 2018, 55% of Californians at all income levels experienced at least one civil legal problem in their household, yet nearly ...
Covid Columns, State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice
The “diploma privilege” boils down to full faith and credit access to justice for “Us” and no faith and credit for “Them,” mea...
President Trump issued an executive memorandum last month to allow payroll tax deferral for employees in response to the ongoi...
Law Practice, Criminal, Covid Court Ops, Covid Columns
Upon learning that my client and I were going to be part of the first post-pandemic jury trial in San Francisco, I was nervous...
Law Practice, Civil Rights
Mallika speaks to a critical race theorist and feminist legal scholar about challenging homogeneity of the profession and acad...
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
It is no secret that in 1776, when the Founding Fathers wrote the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, “We the People” did not i...
In the military, Jackie Robinson took a stand within a racist system
Constitutional Law, Government
President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the judiciary are a violation of the separation of powers set out in the U.S. Con...
A just society holds people accountable for what they do; it does not punish them for what they look like or where they may ha...
The constitutional due process implications of giving prosecutors discretion to investigate and charge women for engaging in a...
Insurance, Civil Litigation
Do all-risk business property insurance policies cover losses related to COVID-19? A recent decision out of the Western Distri...
Civil Litigation, Entertainment & Sports
While some have been enjoying the return of baseball, albeit without fans in the stands, the Oakland A’s are moving forward w...
Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
It took 70 years of advocacy for the 19th Amendment to pass, and it has taken a hundred more for the Equal Rights Amendment to...