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Insurance, Health Care & Hospital Law, Civil Litigation

An accidental opinion

Sep. 13, 2021
By J. Benjamin Blakeman

Two years ago, Kathy Williams, a Missouri woman, fell down a flight of stairs in her home and died. Her blood alcohol level wa...


Law Practice, Entertainment & Sports, Books

Real to Reel

Sep. 13, 2021
By Arthur Gilbert

How fortunate we are to have Professors Paul Bergman and Michael Asimow again offering invaluable insights into the movies we ...


Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Entertainment & Sports

Legal ethics lessons learned from TV lawyers

MCLE
Sep. 13, 2021
By Joanna L. Storey Mishler

You know that feeling you get when you want to yell at the screen because a fictional lawyer in a television show mishandled a...


Technology, Law Practice

In-person trial gone remote: training the jury

Sep. 13, 2021
By Paul R. Kiesel

In his latest installment documenting his in-person trial gone remote, Kiesel discusses training the jury to participate remot...


Criminal, Constitutional Law

Vehicle registered... to do what?

Sep. 13, 2021
By Eric Teti

A recent case questions whether a single “co-registered” owner could validly consent to the tracking of a vehicle driven prima...


Criminal

Beware the risks of proffer agreements

Sep. 13, 2021
By Dmitry Gorin, Alan Eisner

A recent appellate opinion will serve as a stark warning to defense counsel to advise their clients about the risks, and not j...


Obituaries, Judges and Judiciary

Remembering Judge Enrique Romero

Sep. 10, 2021
By Lawrence P. Riff

I’d like to think Judge Romero was my friend. When I thought about applying to the bench, his was the first advice I sought. H...


Law Practice

I usually opine that attorneys smart enough to give good advice are smart enough to give none. I will now ignore my own advice...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Using clawback agreements to lessen the blow of inadvertent disclosure

Sep. 10, 2021
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

Every litigator knows the anxiety of getting ready to press send on a big document production and, no matter how carefully the...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Law Practice

20 years later: The bar’s response to 9/11

Sep. 10, 2021
By David S. Casey Jr.

When American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center at 8:45 a.m., followed by United Airli...


Labor/Employment, Civil Rights

Equal pay in America and the Golden State

MCLE
Sep. 10, 2021
By Betsy Butler

A review of the development and future of pay equality.


Insurance, California Supreme Court

In 2013, the California Legislature passed a consumer-friendly law requiring life insurers to comply with enhanced notice requ...


Alternative Dispute Resolution

When does it make the most sense to choose arbitration, and what are the advantages?


Technology, Law Practice

Using AI for legal reconnaissance

Sep. 9, 2021
By Lance Eliot

Anyone immersed in the law knows that discretion is a cornerstone to our form of jurisprudence. Discretion is powerful. It can...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

In the wake of the rolling blackouts last summer, California energy regulatory agencies and the state government have been scr...


Environmental & Energy, Administrative/Regulatory

While California has historically leaned on other western states, including hydroelectric power from the Pacific Northwest, to...


Labor/Employment

DOL reinforces importance of privacy for ERISA plans

Sep. 9, 2021
By Caroline Turner English, Eva Pulliam

The Department of Labor has issued guidance to instruct and advise companies about how best to care for information gathered i...


Law Practice, Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Lawyers “may” have the right to say the election was stolen during public debate and discourse, but those who pursue litigatio...


Administrative/Regulatory

As we head into year five of legal cannabis, the Los Angeles cannabis industry was dealt yet another curveball by the city’s r...


Construction, Civil Litigation

In a recent appellate case, a contractor who was unlicensed during a portion of a project dodged a bullet. However, I’m not so...


Technology, Law Practice

In-person trial gone remote: What do jurors need?

Sep. 8, 2021
By Paul R. Kiesel

Once the decision was made for my recent trial trial to become fully remote, there were a host of important questions that nee...


U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law

Texas’ new abortion law gives enforcement powers to private citizens. Is there precedent for that?


Government, Constitutional Law

California’s recall is lawful, but it needs reform

Sep. 8, 2021
By David Belcher, Michael Belcher


Insurance, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

High court clarifies life insurance grace period law

Sep. 7, 2021
By Robert J. McKennon, Larry J. Caldwell

Most insureds pay regular monthly life insurance premiums for years without a problem. Occasionally, a policyholder may miss a...


Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice

More on trial court briefs

Sep. 7, 2021
By Myron Moskovitz

A couple of columns back, I reported comments from several superior court judges about what they do not like to see in trial c...


Construction, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court

No new exception to the Privette doctrine

Sep. 7, 2021
By Alan H. Packer, Jack M. Rubin

Last month the California Supreme Court ruled on who should bear the risk of the injury — the owner of the property, or the in...


Securities, Books

Steinberg, the nation’s preeminent authority on securities regulation, has recently added to his already voluminous scholarshi...


U.S. Supreme Court, Health Care & Hospital Law, Constitutional Law

The soft death knell of Roe

Sep. 7, 2021
By Maggie E. Schroedter, Rebecca F. Zipp

Today, perhaps more than any other day, we mourn the passing of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

Titanic, Hindenburg, DIY appeals

MCLE
Sep. 8, 2021
By Benjamin G. Shatz

Americans are hearty souls. In our litigious land of the free and home of the brave, our laws allow — and our grandiose notion...


Government, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Last month, an amazing decision by U.S. District Court Judge Linda V. Parker found nine lawyers from different jurisdictions s...