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Letters, Judges and Judiciary

I have long been scratching my head over Napa County Superior Court’s contested judicial election, in which Judge Monique Lang...


Government, Criminal

Resignations expose illness at the DOJ

Feb. 14, 2020
By Carol C. Lam

Roger Stone will have his place in history, but not merely for his role as a gadfly in the president’s once-inner circle. More...


Government, Criminal

Insubordination shouldn’t be celebrated

Feb. 14, 2020
By Bilal A. Essayli

Prosecutors in the Roger Stone case lied to the attorney general about their sentencing recommendation.


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

TA recent ethics opinion from the State Bar discusses the ethical obligations of both an attorney departing a law firm, akin t...


State Bar & Bar Associations, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

This question was raised recently in opposition to proposals by the State Bar of California regarding fee-sharing and nonattor...


Family, Alternative Dispute Resolution

Mediation magic at the dependency courts

Feb. 14, 2020
By Stacey Lisk, Sidney Kanazawa

There is magic happening at the Los Angeles County Dependency Courts in Monterey Park and Antelope Valley, California. These a...


International Law, Books

Lured by the wolf

Feb. 14, 2020
By Richard Wirick

Jessica Stern’s new book ‘My War Criminal’ documents her encounters with an architect of genocide


Legal Education

Ensuring legal extern compliance with cyber protocols

Feb. 13, 2020
By Grace A. Parrish

People receive notifications about another data breach that may have affected their personal information daily. Although large...


California Supreme Court, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

9th Circuit biometric privacy case denied, but others on the way

Feb. 13, 2020
By Michael Zeller, Ari Herbert

The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to review a 9th Circuit decision involving a class action under the Illinois Biometri...


Intellectual Property, Corporate, Civil Litigation, Administrative/Regulatory

The 9th is set to hear oral arguments in FTC v. Qualcomm on Thursday. This appeal of District Judge Lucy Koh’s groundbreaking ...


With over half of our returns being prepared by someone else, it is no wonder that many taxpayers may feel tempted to not even...


Intellectual Property, Corporate, Administrative/Regulatory

FTC v Qualcomm: Where do you SEPpose we go from here…?

Feb. 12, 2020
By Brian Scarpelli, Alexandra McLeod

We need to unleash the unparalleled innovation capacity of America into our new markets without the constraints of Qualcomm’s ...


The FAIR Act and mandatory arbitration

Feb. 12, 2020
By Twila S. White

The federal Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act would prohibit pre-disbute arbitration agreements that force arbitration o...


Securities, Government, Criminal, Corporate

2nd Circuit abandons insider trading ‘personal benefit’ test

Feb. 12, 2020
By Matthew E. Sloan, Emily Ludmir Aviad

A recent ruling sets a lower burden for bringing insider trading cases under Title 18 and will likely encourage prosecutors to...


Criminal, Constitutional Law

Face-to-face confrontation: Who should connect the dots?

Feb. 12, 2020
By Brian M. Hoffstadt

The Sixth Amendment right to confront entails, among other things, the right to have a witness “physical[ly] presen[t]” in cou...


Antitrust & Trade Reg.

A deep dive into the antitrust claims against Facebook

MCLE
Feb. 12, 2020
By Daniel Bitton, Angelina Whitfield

Four app development companies recent filed a class action suit against Facebook in the Northern District of California, alleg...


Law Practice

Responding to coronavirus is not ‘racist’

Feb. 11, 2020
By Frank H. Wu

“Do you believe how America is reacting to the coronavirus is racist?” More than one friend has asked me, a Chinese-American, ...


Criminal, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The law is clear, and this manner of resolving the case is clearly wrong.


Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law, Intellectual Property, Corporate

What California businesses should know after Brexit

Feb. 11, 2020
By Matthew Levitt, Neil Coulson

The regulation — through legislation or antitrust enforcement and merger control — of platforms and of data-rich tech companie...


Government, Constitutional Law

Trump, post-impeachment

Feb. 11, 2020
By Kris Whitten

The Senate has spoken, and President Donald Trump was acquitted on Feb. 5, by a majority vote — far short of the two-thirds ma...


Labor/Employment, Civil Litigation

You have probably seen it on a restaurant bill: a notice that a percentage is added to your bill as a “service charge.” But al...


Civil Litigation

As last year drew to a close, the 9th Circuit affirmed a district court’s dismissal of a false advertising case challenging th...


Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Sports

In watching a musical, you encounter numerous different elements coming together to form one unified story. Those elements may...


Government, Criminal

The California Attorney General’s office estimates that human trafficking is an approximately $150 billion-dollar-a-year globa...


Administrative/Regulatory

With Gov. Gavin Newsom’s view that “California’s economy and its people thrive when predatory business practices are policed,”...


Civil Litigation, California Courts of Appeal

The unlikely setting of a depublication request in a recent case reveals the extent to which California lemon law litigation h...


Land Use

Senate Bill 50 was the quickest way to encourage growth

Feb. 10, 2020
By Alicia Guerra, Braeden J. Mansouri

The bill failed to garner enough necessary votes in the State Senate to send the bill to the Assembly. Authored by Sen. Scott ...


Probate

‘Tell me what you want, what you really, really want’: Placencia v. Strazicich

Feb. 10, 2020
By Denise E. Chambliss, Ariel G. Siner

In a case of first impression, the California 4th District Court of Appeal recently held that a decedent’s will can be evidenc...


Law Practice, Civil Litigation

In a recent case, the trial judge in a civil rights case imposed a 90% haircut on fees, and a majority of a Court of Appeals p...


Law Practice, Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Key considerations for attorneys with multistate practices

Feb. 7, 2020
By Shari L. Klevens, Alanna G. Clair

Recent decades have seen the rise of multijurisdictional practices as lawyers have taken advantage of new technologies to seam...