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Technology, Data Privacy

Current information security and risk mitigation approaches are ineffective. This is nowhere more apparent than in critical su...


U.S. Supreme Court

Wrong and ominous

Jan. 19, 2022
By Erwin Chemerinsky

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling striking down the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s vaccine rules is an ominous ...


Legal Education

On February 1, the Los Angeles County Bar Association is presenting an online panel discussion titled: “Hastings Name Change: ...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

Are costs for unused trial exhibits recoverable?

Jan. 19, 2022
By Steven H. Kruis

The California Supreme Court recently answered this question in a case involving the following scenario: Plaintiffs sued defen...


Technology, Administrative/Regulatory

When former Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai left the agency, there was hope that government regulators mig...


Letters, Government, Constitutional Law

Regarding Neil Auwarter’s January 7 guest column, “Of filibusters and festive bachelors: The dark purpose of the Senate’s mino...


In his January 10 guest column, “Talking to strangers: Lessons for lawyers,” Syed H. Mannan states, “As lawyers, this social s...


CAL/OSHA to employers: New year, new emergency workplace rules

Jan. 18, 2022
By Colin Calvert, Sarah G. Bennett

The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health has voted to adopt a new set of COVID-19 emergency temporary standar...


Legal Education

With the election of Donald Trump, law school deans experienced something extraordinary that goes to the very core of the miss...


Criminal, Appellate Practice

Criminal appeals in California: The nuts and bolts

MCLE
Jan. 18, 2022
By David J. Cohen

A conviction need not be the end of the road for a criminal defendant. Here is a quick primer on the fundamentals of preparing...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

A Story Goes to Court: Part I

Jan. 18, 2022
By Myron Moskovitz

Many attorneys view appellate lawyers like me as scholarly nerds, parsing ancient cases for tidbits of dicta that support a no...


Real Estate/Development, Land Use

ADU or SB 9?

Jan. 18, 2022
By Lauren Sanchez

As Californians digest the practical implications of the bill, reconciling Senate Bill 9 with existing housing laws, including...


Appellate Practice

Many attorneys and litigants believe that the appellate court is another opportunity to argue their case. It is often thought ...


U.S. Supreme Court, Labor/Employment, Government

On Thursday, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Biden administration’s effort to turn the Occupational Safety and Health Admi...


Entertainment & Sports, Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Baseball is the first game to be given an exemption under federal law that applies to other businesses. But that may be about ...


Law Practice

Big law is back in the Goldilocks zone

Jan. 13, 2022
By Peter Zeughauser

If big law 2021 was, as many firms are reporting, a whopper of a year, 2022 looks to be even better.


Family

It’s a new year, so let’s talk support

MCLE
Jan. 13, 2022
By Scott J. Nord

As the holiday season brings about exponential growth in ex partes seeking holiday visitation orders, the dawning of the new y...


Technology, Intellectual Property

The metaverse brings a universe of new intellectual property questions: For example, what about the use of tattoos on avatars?...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation

Practitioners representing survivors of sexual abuse sue the State of the Vatican City (i.e., Holy See) because they argue tha...


Judges and Judiciary

A voir dire questionnaire to shorten jury trials

Jan. 12, 2022
By Richard L. Fruin

Using a questionnaire, I am usually successful in swearing in the jury and the alternates on the first day of trial. Sometimes...


Civil Rights

Title IX at 50

Jan. 12, 2022
By Phyllis W. Cheng

2022 marks the 50th Anniversary of Title IX, a groundbreaking federal law that has significantly expanded educational opportun...


Probate, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal

Tangled rules for modification of revocable trusts

Jan. 12, 2022
By Mark J. Phillips, Jake V. Phillips

Last year an appellate court clarified some 30 years of conflicting caselaw on the procedure for amending trust documents, but...


Law Practice

How does the US legal system rank internationally?

Jan. 11, 2022
By Merete Rietveld

While the United States performs strongly in certain areas, it falls behind in the civil justice and criminal justice categories.


Law Practice, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Attorneys have to have many difficult conversations with clients; sometimes it can be tough to get a client to moderate their ...


Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

Breadcrumbs or apple seeds?

Jan. 11, 2022
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

Some (but not all) judges on occasion seem to place language in their opinions that can serve as breadcrumbs (because the lang...


Law Practice

Talking to strangers: Lessons for lawyers

Jan. 10, 2022
By Syed H. Mannan

Although even judges are only slightly better than chance at calling a lie, both lawyers and judges can improve their ability ...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Covid Court Ops, Covid Columns

COVID-19: Will things ever return to ‘normal’ in California courts?

Jan. 10, 2022
By Reza Torkzadeh, Allen P. Wilkinson

Last week, the Central District of California announced the suspension of civil and criminal jury trials.


Law Practice

Taking a difficult dispute to trial

Jan. 10, 2022
By James D. Crosby

Sometimes, mediation and/or arbitration simply will not do; you have to get ready for trial.


Letters, Judges and Judiciary

The reason is simple. Ballot designations.


Torts/Personal Injury, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal

The 4th District Court of Appeal recently recognized that the breadth of the Elder and Dependent Adult Civil Protection Act an...