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Family

Mitigating the unintended consequences of divorce laws

Jul. 16, 2020
By Franklin R. Garfield

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

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

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

Jul. 15, 2020
By Felix Shafir, Jeremy B. Rosen

For years, Courts of Appeal disagreed over whether employment claims qualified for protection under the anti-SLAPP statute.


Law Practice, Labor/Employment

Resolving the conflict

Jul. 15, 2020
By Carmen J. Cole

Perspectives of a Black, woman, management-side employment attorney.



Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation

‘Reporting’ to work since Ward v Tilly’s

Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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

MCLE
Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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

Jul. 15, 2020
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...



Labor/Employment

Future workplace

Jul. 15, 2020
By Natalie A. Pierce

Balancing AI and robotics pandemic solutions with privacy concerns.


Labor/Employment, International Law

Working from home

Jul. 15, 2020
By Ute Krudewagen, Victoria Richter

Global compliance obligations in the brave new world.



Labor/Employment

Understanding hazard pay during the COVID-19 crisis

Jul. 15, 2020
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

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

Jul. 14, 2020
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...


Environmental & Energy

Trump’s disasterous environmental record

Jul. 14, 2020
By Nicholas C. Yost

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

Jul. 14, 2020
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

Jul. 14, 2020
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

Jul. 14, 2020
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

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

Jul. 13, 2020
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

Jul. 13, 2020
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

Jul. 13, 2020
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

Jul. 10, 2020
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 ...



Alternative Dispute Resolution

I refuse to take yes for an answer

Jul. 10, 2020
By Robert S. Mann

Perhaps the most influential book ever written about the process of negotiating, and certainly a “primer” for virtually every ...


Physician heal thyself

Jul. 10, 2020
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...