Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
After ruling, employers should reexamine security procedures
By Elizabeth Arnold
Last moth, the California Supreme Court determined that time Apple retail store employees spent engaged in required searches o...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation, California Supreme Court
California Supreme Court limits effect of individual settlements on PAGA claims
By Paul S. Cowie, John Ellis
The California Supreme Court recently decided an important wage and hour case deciding whether an individual may still pursue ...
Intellectual Property, Civil Litigation
Trade secret suits remind businesses to consistently safeguard confidential information
By Travis J. Anderson, Bill Blonigan
In the realm of trade secret law, an ounce of protection is worth a pound of cure. Remove that protection, and a company may s...
Probate
Kobe Bryant’s failure to update his will and trust forces his widow into court
By Scott E. Rahn
On the heels of Kobe Bryant’s tragic passing in January, his widow, Vanessa Bryant, and the couple’s three minor children find...
Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory
At least for brick-and-mortar retailers, CCPA enforcement needs to take a sick day
By Monica Baumann
The need to delay CCPA enforcement is particularly acute for the state’s brick-and-mortar retailers. For many of them, this is...
In an unprecedented move, both the Internal Revenue Service and the California Franchise Tax Board recently took sweeping step...
Trade secret litigation on the rise in California: How ADR can help
By Elizabeth D. Laporte
Trade secret litigation in California is growing, in both volume and impact.
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Mediation at ground zero: The case for virtual dispute resolution
By Jan Frankel Schau
A Chinese proverb says, “Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.” With the abrupt shut down of all ...
Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Insurance 101 for law firms
By John B. Sullivan
Many lawyers do not become familiar with their firm’s lawyer professional liability, or LPL, insurance policies until it is to...
Law Practice
Legal recruitment: Where it stands in the COVID-19 crisis
By Larry Watanabe
While we are undergoing an unprecedented a time in all of our lives, legal recruiters are as active as ever in their continued...
Labor/Employment, Alternative Dispute Resolution
A couple ways to help your employees weather the COVID-19 storm
By Bob Blum
Do you want to help your employees right now to weather the COVID-19 storm? Here are two ways that go beyond the new small emp...
U.S. Supreme Court, Civil Rights
Justices may review another 9th Circuit qualified immunity case
By Scott J. Street
The Supreme Court likes to pick on the 9th Circuit, and may get another chance when it decides whether to hear a new petition ...
Law Practice
State courts are taking bold steps to address COVID-19
By Carolin K. Shining
Hearings by video technology are not the only overnight structural changes sweeping through state court systems. From oaths to...
Law Practice
Now is the time to save the civil justice system from COVID-19
By Brian S. Kabateck
This week as part of a wave of unprecedented changes to American life, Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye discontinued all c...
Judges and Judiciary, Criminal, Constitutional Law
Work may move online, but the courts should not in criminal cases
By Ayyan Zubair
Broadly adopting remote appearances as a rule in the criminal context raises significant constitutional concerns.
Land Use, Constitutional Law, California Supreme Court
Unfinished takings business at the US Supreme Court
By Michael M. Berger
Last year the court discarded the state litigation requirement, but questions remain.
Labor/Employment, Corporate
Is your business an ‘essential business’?
By Carolina de Armas, Nick Moore, Tony Schoenberg
Navigating California state and county COVID-19 shelter-in-place orders.
Labor/Employment
Coping with the coronavirus in the workplace, part three
By Eli M. Kantor, Jonathan D. Kantor
President Donald Trump signed the Family First Coronavirus Response Act into law on March 18, which will be effective through ...
Government, Constitutional Law
An overview of California’s emergency powers
By Brandon Young, Mario Cardona
The unprecedented challenges created by COVID-19 have forced the state and local governments to exercise exceptional powers to...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Resolving disputes in the midst of ‘social distancing’
By Sidney Kanazawa
The COVID-19 crisis is compelling us to think creatively about how we resolve disputes in an age of “social distancing.”
“Don’t worry, Tony,” my wife Beverly said in her sweet, reassuring way as we washed our hands. “We have enough soap.”
Before pulling into my garage last Thursday afternoon, I turned on the radio. I was just in time to hear Gavin Newsom rasp, “T...
Military Law, Government
The National Guard: Always ready, always there
By Eileen C. Moore
For the past few decades, we have thought of the National Guard as being citizen soldiers, prepared to give up their civilian ...
Civil Litigation
CCPA lawsuit’s underway, despite July 1 enforcement date
By Anita Taff-Rice
The California attorney general’s office is still fine-tuning regulations implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act and...
The crippling question for insurance companies is whether the losses sustained due to the business interruption and the inevit...
Law Practice, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights
Goldilocks and the 3 Batson fixes
By Brian M. Hoffstadt
Batson’s prohibition is easy to articulate, but significantly harder to enforce.
I love teaching Civil Procedure. I loved studying the subject. I realize that is unusual. Even among people who enjoyed law sc...
Labor/Employment
Coping with the coronavirus in the workplace, part two
By Eli M. Kantor, Jonathan D. Kantor
Since our article that was published on March 18, there have been dramatic changes due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Letters, Judges and Judiciary
‘Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.’
By Randolph M. Hammock
Suffice it to state that I read with great interest Mr. Timothy Reuben’s recent Daily Journal article, “Ballot designations fa...
Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation
DoorDash: quick food, slow justice
By Aaron Blumenthal, Steven Tindall
DoorDash, like many companies, required its employees to sign such arbitration agreements because it thought workers wouldn’t ...