A recent appellate case highlights three areas in which conduct that is commonplace during the course of a marriage may have c...
Family, Civil Litigation
When family law actions collide with civil claims for damages
By Jeffrey P. Blum
It is axiomatic that divorce fosters conflict. Occasionally the conflict between divorcing spouses may give rise to tort and o...
Tax advisers use the term “disclosure” frequently. Occasionally, taxpayers do too, although they may not understand how or why...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law
John Roberts channels John Marshall in Trump tax ruling
By Ben Feuer
At first glance, there may not seem much that congressional subpoenas for the last 10 years of President Donald Trump’s person...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
Anti-SLAPP and employment claims
By Felix Shafir, Jeremy B. Rosen
For years, Courts of Appeal disagreed over whether employment claims qualified for protection under the anti-SLAPP statute.
Perspectives of a Black, woman, management-side employment attorney.
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
‘Reporting’ to work since Ward v Tilly’s
By Michael Chamberlin, Joseph Persoff
A California Court of Appeal concluded last year that an employee does not need to physically show up to “report” to work and ...
Labor/Employment, Entertainment & Sports
The long and winding road for Hollywood employers to get back to business
By Anthony J. Oncidi, Philippe Lebel
For the entertainment industry, March’s shelter-in-place orders meant a total production shutdown. Entertainment employers hav...
Labor/Employment, Bankruptcy
Employment litigation in bankruptcy
By Zev Shechtman
With unemployment and economic distress reaching levels unseen since the Great Depression, businesses and their employees may ...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
Employer’s unlimited vacation practice invalidated
By Paula Weber, Laura Latham
At a time when most California employers were focused on COVID-19 response and compliance, scant attention was given to a ruli...
Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law
Employee expression in the workplace
By Grant P. Alexander, Melissa K. Bell
With the recent protests and social unrest relating to the killings of George Floyd and others, and the 2020 presidential elec...
Labor/Employment, Government, Criminal
Reform in law enforcement: an L&E perspective
By Geoffrey S. Sheldon, James E. Oldendorph Jr.
Missing from the discussion of a number of the sought after reforms is an appreciation of the existing legal landscape in whic...
Labor/Employment, Constitutional Law
Worker protests and the limits of employer control
By Mary Dollarhide, Khesraw (Kash) Karmand
Put simply, politics can be bad for business. But may an employer discipline or terminate workers for participating in politic...
Labor/Employment
What employers need to know: Coronavirus as a work-related illness, part 2
By Christine Samsel, Rosanna Carvacho
Does workers’ compensation cover COVID-19 that may have been contracted by employees in the workplace? The answer is “it depen...
Balancing AI and robotics pandemic solutions with privacy concerns.
Labor/Employment, International Law
Working from home
By Ute Krudewagen, Victoria Richter
Global compliance obligations in the brave new world.
Labor/Employment
Understanding hazard pay during the COVID-19 crisis
By Andrew Parkhurst, Hilary Weddell
The current COVID-19 crisis has many employees asking — if not demanding — that they receive additional compensation for work ...
Tax, Real Estate/Development
Opportunity zones an option as Section 1031 exchange relief fades
By Phil Jelsma
With the July 15 deadline for identifying exchange properties now behind us, many real estate investors in Section 1031 exchan...
Government, Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal
Rulings trash excessive local waste management fees
By Gideon Kracov, Jordan Sisson
What was once a source of revenue for local governments and their waste haulers is now a black hole draining local revenues an...
President Trump has undertaken an assault on America’s environmental laws and regulations unmatched in the nation’s history. H...
Labor/Employment
What employers need to know: Coronavirus as a work-related illness, part 1
By Christine Samsel, Rosanna Carvacho
Does workers’ compensation cover COVID-19 that may have been contracted by employees in the workplace? The answer is “it depen...
The world’s most dangerous man
By Stephen F. Rohde
Mary Trump’s remarkable book may well be the most serious, candid and revealing examination of Donald Trump ever written by an...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law
Undermining the religion clauses of the First Amendment
By Erwin Chemerinsky
The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority is dramatically expanding protection for religions at the expense of all of us ...
Intellectual Property
Monetizing your IP to cushion the economic impact of COVID-19
By Dariush Adli
The ability to realize monetary value from intellectual property assets should not be surprising to business owners. Research ...
Entertainment & Sports
COVID-19 and film production
By Neville L. Johnson, Douglas L. Johnson
On June 5, the governor of California gave the green light for film and television production to resume, effective June 12. Th...
U.S. Supreme Court, Government, Constitutional Law
Tea leaves and the CFPB
By Anne Voigts, Matt Noller
A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision is notable for what it does, but also for what it doesn't do. It held that the fact that ...
Intellectual Property, Government, Corporate
FCC designates Huawei as national security threat
By Janice W. Reicher, Hilary C. Krase
In the ongoing confrontation between the U.S. government and Chinese telecom giant Huawei, the U.S. has dealt another major blow.
Police power in paradise: Hawaii’s quarantine rule is likely valid
By Jacob M. McIntosh, Josh McDaniel
Compared to other states, Hawaii has seen few cases and deaths from COVID-19. It is easy to see why. Unlike other states, the ...
Perhaps the most influential book ever written about the process of negotiating, and certainly a “primer” for virtually every ...
Physician heal thyself
By Patricia Gillette
I am so proud of the many lawyers who have come forward to offer assistance to demonstrators and victims of police violence in...