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Another missed chance to strengthen California’s False Claims Act

Sep. 8, 2020
By Ari M. Yampolsky, Chris McLamb

For the second year in a row, the California State Assembly passed legislation to strengthen the California False Claims Act —...


Legal Education

Happy 100th, Loyola Law School!

Sep. 8, 2020
By Michael Waterstone

We first opened our doors in downtown Los Angeles on Wednesday, Sept. 8, 1920 at 7:30 p.m. It was an evening-only program with...



State Bar & Bar Associations, Legal Education

As a former member of the California State Bar Board of Trustees from 2013-2019, including having acted for several years as a...


Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory

Last week, following nearly a decade of litigation, a Los Angeles Superior Court ruled in favor of a group of coffee defendant...



Who’s afraid of the FAA?

Sep. 4, 2020
By Steven B. Katz

A recent appellate decision shows just how far the courts are willing to go to insulate California public policy from the pree...


Military Law, Civil Rights

United States v 2LT Jack R Robinson

Sep. 4, 2020
By Eileen C. Moore

In the military, Jackie Robinson took a stand within a racist system



U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, Books

Notorious RBG talks life, love, liberty and law

Sep. 4, 2020
By Marc D. Alexander

“Conversations with RBG,” authored by Professor Jeffrey Rosen, is a good place to begin for a probing, yet concise, book about...


Technology, Law Practice

Old School, meet New School

Sep. 4, 2020
By Paul R. Kiesel

I have been a proponent of incorporating technology into law practice since I started practicing back in 1985. Now here I am, ...



Government, Constitutional Law

President Donald Trump’s constant attacks on the judiciary are a violation of the separation of powers set out in the U.S. Con...


Letters, Civil Rights

I read Judge Rupa Goswami’s article and it hit home — hard.



Labor/Employment

At the zenith of the legislative session, 31 separate bills were under consideration to either amend or abandon AB 5. If, as e...


Letters, Law Practice, Judges and Judiciary, Appellate Practice

I thoroughly enjoyed David Ozeran’s article in the August 25 Daily Journal on opinions reflecting judicial wisdom/humor. Here’...



Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Civil Litigation

Settle-and-sue malpractice cases: What should the plaintiff have to prove?

Sep. 3, 2020
By Heather L. Rosing, David M. Majchrzak

You represented your client from the beginning of a dispute to the very end. You obtained a result that, while not an outright...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility, Covid Columns

Don’t let pandemic stress impair your judgment

Sep. 3, 2020
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

Amid all the adversity, some attorneys may unfortunately be tempted to make a bad decision.



Tax, Covid Columns, Corporate

Key issues facing corporate clients and potentially impacting transactions

Sep. 2, 2020
By Alexander M. Lee, Megan Lisa Jones

The current year has developed in surprising ways for most of us. With an election looming and governments dealing with the ef...


The tax code is chock full of penalties, so you always want to behave reasonably and in good faith. One of the biggest and mos...



Real Estate/Development, Government

The Judicial Council’s elimination of its unlawful detainer moratorium forced the California Legislature to take urgent action...


Construction

Sometimes you can see a train wreck coming a mile away. Design Built Systems v. Sorokine is one of those cases. It also happen...



Technology, Law Practice

A thought-provoking vision that the future of law might entail a Legal Singularity encompassing the elimination of legal uncer...


Government, Covid Columns

Legislation promising in the first months of 2020 lost steam as priorities shifted to COVID-19 relief bills. But animal prote...



Environmental & Energy, California Supreme Court

In resolving a dispute over Stanislaus County’s blanket exemption of water well construction permits from review under the Cal...


Law Practice, Appellate Practice

The need for speed

Sep. 1, 2020
By Benjamin G. Shatz

The hotshot fighter pilots of “Top Gun” are all about speed — fast jets, fast motorcycles, and fast “friends” who haven’t “los...



Criminal, Civil Litigation

Immune, or not immune? That is Craigslist’s question

Sep. 1, 2020
By Daniel Rozansky, Cristy Jonelis

Two recent bills that amended Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act — the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act and Stop En...


Health Care & Hospital Law, Covid Columns, California Supreme Court

Given the state’s woeful performance safeguarding residents’ rights, Health and Safety Code Section 1430(b) litigation has bee...



Civil Rights

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...


Tax, International Law, Covid Columns, Corporate

EU adopts taxpayer-friendly residency approaches due to COVID-19

Aug. 31, 2020
By Friedemann Thomma, Becca Chappell

Recent COVID-19 travel restrictions have created risk of additional corporate income tax liabilities and filing obligations fo...



A party who prevails at trial in a civil action must often wait years as the case winds through the appellate process before e...


Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate

Why it’s important to manage confidentiality in M&A deals

Aug. 31, 2020
By Zachary Turke, Edward Xia

Once you have taken the important step of deciding to sell your company, a business owner must face the reality that the inner...



Intellectual Property, Corporate

Despite the COVID-19 setback to the economy, the stock market continues to set records, demonstrating the resilience of U.S. b...


Education Law

Review new Title IX regulations, effective this month

MCLE
Aug. 31, 2020
By Pilar Morin, David Urban

On May 6, the Department of Education issued the new final Title IX regulations with a firm deadline of Aug. 14 for educators ...