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Technology, Intellectual Property

Algorithms as trade secrets

Aug. 29, 2022
By Randall E. Kay, Kristin Lahaszow

Why the New York Times and TikTok Are More Similar to Each Other Than You Think


Letters

Reasons for Hastings’ name change are undisputable

Aug. 29, 2022
By Merete Rietveld


Entertainment & Sports

Stream it Tonight! A Few Good Men (1992)

Aug. 26, 2022
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman

In addition to providing superior entertainment, the movie shows how a writer (Aaron Sorkin) can use the courtroom format to s...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports

The year-end NIL playbook for lawyers

Aug. 26, 2022
By Frank N. Darras

Cash upfront in exchange for a percentage of backend earnings is not a new concept, but since it is still in its infancy in co...


Real Estate/Development, Government

Challenges to adequate housing measures continue

Aug. 26, 2022
By Jeffrey Carlin, Kathleen Hill

California has approved Los Angeles’s updated housing element addressing the City’s pervasive lack of adequate and affordable ...


Legal Education

Hastings name change jeopardizes its reputation

Aug. 26, 2022
By Robert C. Wright

A renaming exposes the school to “unknown and potentially enormous” financial risks. It also suddenly creates a law school wit...


Real Estate/Development, Government, Environmental & Energy

Take a sober look at California's worst-in-the-nation poverty rate and the shameful fact that the vast majority of our poor ar...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

While “cash is king” and it is beneficial to be paid by someone who owes you money, you must recognize that under certain circ...


Education Law

It’s time for a name change at UC Hastings

Aug. 25, 2022
By Thomas J. Umberg

Should AB 1936 pass and be signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, it will remove the taint of association with Serranus Hastings but...


Health Care & Hospital Law

The reality is that most people never hear about deceitful marketing practices or other bad acts of companies that put out dan...


Securities, Data Privacy

One of the most controversial parts of the SEC’s rules proposal is a requirement that companies report a cybersecurity inciden...


Government

Why I love democracy and you should too

Aug. 24, 2022
By William W. Bruzzo

Democracy should be coveted for the equal opportunity it affords its citizens, but also for its track record of success.


Education Law, Civil Rights

The simple truth is that employers who create diverse and inclusive workplaces get sued less – and fewer claims mean lower leg...


Government, Ediscovery

In light of numerous prior decisions in high-profile police misconduct cases, including the George Floyd criminal verdicts, it...


Tax

Business seller’s bonanza: capital gains (not ordinary income) tax

Aug. 23, 2022
By Stephen Mihaly, Bruce Givner

Happily, the Internal Revenue Code has a rule that should allow Seller and Buyer to salvage their initial handshake deal.


Data Privacy, Administrative/Regulatory

Could the California Privacy Protection Agency really believe that compliance with the proposed regulations would be less than...


Real Estate/Development, Insurance

Coastal properties and insuring flood risk

Aug. 22, 2022
By Kirk A. Pasich

Coastal property owners will face an increasing challenge – pressure on public agencies not to spend taxpayer money to protect...


Constitutional Law

Codifying Roe v. Wade will prove to be abortive

Aug. 22, 2022
By Richard A. Nixon

Congress has used its power under the Commerce Clause to do many things not authorized by the Constitution. This proposed use ...


Technology

No one can dispute that the internet is a fundamental part of community life.


Tax

Tax planning for the $2 million lottery (or bonus)

Aug. 19, 2022
By Bruce Givner, Owen Kaye

There are at least three legal and ethical structures that can significantly mitigate the ultimate tax cost.


Insurance

La Brea crash illustrates important insurance issues

Aug. 19, 2022
By Michael E. Rubinstein

Of course, no amount of money will bring anyone back. But as injury lawyers, we try to help our clients find some semblance of...


Labor/Employment, Government

Not surprisingly, the delivery companies are crying foul, claiming that the law would be costly, inconvenient and unnecessary.


Entertainment & Sports

Stream it Tonight! Denial (2016)

Aug. 19, 2022
By Michael Asimow, Paul Bergman

British defamation law is much more favorable to the plaintiff than U.S. law.


Tax, Insurance

Wildfire settlement tax issues are tricky

Aug. 18, 2022
By Robert W. Wood

In most fire cases, legal fees can be dealt with in a way so that victims do not have to pay tax on the fees, but you should s...


Government, Civil Rights

The Court noted that social media, like Facebook and Twitter, were “fora inherently compatible with expressive activity” and a...


Insurance, Civil Litigation

Emerging trends in insurance coverage litigation

Aug. 18, 2022
By Salvatore Padula

It is increasingly clear that insureds asserting claims for loss of business income during periods of government-ordered shutd...


U.S. Supreme Court

Consequences matter

Aug. 17, 2022
By Erwin Chemerinsky

The lesson from all of this is that all of the justices, whether they openly admit it or not, are making value choices as to w...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Judges and Judiciary

Because the success of Girardi’s unethical practices depended on private judges who “occupy a secretive corner of the legal wo...


Government

Common sense tells us that when drug dealers are in prison, they can’t sell drugs to kids, so our communities are safer. Incre...


California Supreme Court, Administrative/Regulatory

This is bad news for the bench, bar and public.