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Legal Education, Government

Mutiny in California during WWII

Mar. 25, 2022
By John S. Caragozian

On July 17, 1944, a ship being loaded with bombs and ammunition near San Francisco Bay exploded, instantly killing 320 men and...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Who should do the heavy lifting?

Mar. 25, 2022
By Robert S. Mann

Understanding your client’s expectations, learning more about your client’s perceptions of the legal system and your client’s ...


Law Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Managing the mayhem of multiparty mediation

Mar. 24, 2022
By Robert S. Mann

Mutliparty cases present special challenges for not only the mediator, but also the lawyers, their clients and the insurance c...


Law Practice, Government

Bounties for enforcing public values are hardly novel

Mar. 24, 2022
By Richard A. Schulman

What might be novel is that a state with opposing politics, i.e., Texas, decided to use the same system.


Government, Environmental & Energy

California has its clean car authority back. Now the question is how aggressively it will wield that newly restored power to p...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Had Vince Lombardi coached mediators and not football players, his famous proverb might sound something like this: “Great comm...


Law Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Small and solo firms: Level the playing field through mediation

Mar. 23, 2022
By Alice M. Graham, Jan Frankel Schau

By harnessing the power of mediation, the sole or small firm practitioner can drive home the options if an agreement is not re...


Insurance, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

High court declines to review whether COVID can cause property damage

Mar. 23, 2022
By Rani Gupta, David B. Goodwin

On March 10, the California Supreme Court announced that it has declined to weigh in — for now — on the biggest brewing insura...


Law Practice

Recover hourly rates higher than local rates?

Mar. 23, 2022
By John D. O’Connor


Criminal

The Los Angeles DA’s epiphany that his blanket Youth Justice Policy was a mistake is little solace to the families of murder v...


Technology, Data Privacy

The California Consumer Privacy Act, widely hailed as the most stringent consumer privacy law in the country, has produced a m...


U.S. Supreme Court, Criminal, Constitutional Law

You Complete Me

Mar. 22, 2022
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

In a recent ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court penned the latest chapter in what might be called “The Chronicles of Crawford.”


Law Practice, Civil Litigation

Over the past year, I have written about myriad litigation-related topics — yet, I have never written about the litigants them...


For countless law enforcement agencies, the scope of disclosures they are legally required to make often turns on what constit...


Law Practice, Criminal, Constitutional Law

When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Senate Bill 98, media groups hailed its passage and reported that it “exempts media professi...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

Trial lawyers juggle many balls at once — and the balls keep changing as the case moves along. Appellants’ lawyers are on a di...


Law Practice, Covid Columns

How the pandemic changed the legal landscape

Mar. 21, 2022
By Brian S. Kabateck

With the threat of COVID not entirely behind us yet, it’s crucial now more than ever to embrace the changes the pandemic has b...


Tax

No IRS SOL on audit? How can this be?

Mar. 21, 2022
By Robert W. Wood

Tax audits are unnerving and can be expensive. Even if you end up with the coveted “no change” letter that is the stuff of leg...


U.S. Supreme Court, Judges and Judiciary

Last month, President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court. On Monday, the Senate Judicia...


Torts/Personal Injury, Law Practice, Covid Columns, Civil Litigation

COVID-19 negligent exposure cases: Not a plaintiff’s paradise

Mar. 21, 2022
By J. Kevin Morrison, Noah A. Phillips

While the factual circumstances underlying COVID-19 negligence lawsuits may be as novel as the virus itself and often present ...


Labor/Employment

Along with all the other social impacts, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped the workplace and much of employment...


Legal Education, Constitutional Law

Under Article IX, section 9, the Legislature has no authority to rename the college, and that constitutional provision more br...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

NEM 3.0 final design will determine fate of California’s solar market

Mar. 18, 2022
By Addison Berry, Elizabeth Levin

Though a fair amount of uncertainty remains about the timing and final design of NEM 3.0, the critical question is whether sta...


Government, Criminal

Our public defender offices must be fully funded and staffed

Mar. 18, 2022
By Christine Rodriguez Tyler

Nearly 60 years after the landmark Supreme Court ruling in Gideon v. Wainwright, we still see public defender offices across t...


Recent changes in federal and state law that shrink the scope of arbitration and confidentiality clauses will affect how cases...


Labor/Employment

Courts should dismiss PAGA suits when plaintiff isn’t competent

Mar. 18, 2022
By Chet Kronenberg, Jacob Waschak

Let’s say a PAGA plaintiff has a past felony conviction for armed robbery or is going to be incarcerated during the pendency o...


Criminal

I wish I could name two or three factors to look for, but alas, there isn’t a checklist or litmus test for identifying wrongfu...


Consumer Law, California Supreme Court, California Courts of Appeal

Subrogation is commonly described as a legal device that allows one person to "step into the shoes" of another in relation to ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Government

Since 9/11, the circumstances in which agencies have wielded this doctrine have become increasingly less exceptional. A recent...


Data Privacy, Criminal, Constitutional Law

California’s feeble privacy right is cold comfort

Mar. 17, 2022
By Brandon V. Stracener, David A. Carrillo

San Francisco’s District Attorney Chesa Boudin recently revealed that the city’s police department has a practice of saving DN...