A live court reporter makes a record in realtime and typically has one or two backups to that record. This is a tested practic...

If an Exempt Seller has a Death Certificate in their possession which indicates there was a death on the property and they res...

A value of movies like 12 Angry Men may be to remind us that jury trials are a central aspect of American justice.

Values expressed in 1974 Political Reform Act forgotten in 2022

I am constantly surprised how many defense lawyers fail to go through the verdict form in their one shot at closing argument. ...

A fundamental principle of contract law is that contracts are read in favor of the party that did not draft the agreement. Giv...

Employers with existing non-compete clauses at the time the rule goes into effect must rescind the non-compete clause no later...

If someone has died and owes you money, you may be entitled to relief but be careful: strict rules and procedures can kill oth...

Stakeholders with actual knowledge that a deed, declaration, or governing document may contain an unlawful restrictive covenan...

The Court of Appeals “respectfully” concluded that “if Coral Farms intended a different result, then perhaps it should have ne...

The IRS does not have the power to outvote the Tax Court or Eleventh Circuit, but it has the power to audit.

What general counsels and company leaders need to know about transparency and accountability for data breaches

What employers need to know about additional rights in the California Privacy Rights Act

There were more Trusts and Estates appellate opinions compared to the year prior. Though none had earth shattering implication...

l am like a fugitive from a horror movie, one of the undead. Luckily, I don’t enter the courtroom from the entrance, an unnerv...

Under a recent Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision, a plaintiff suing a foreign-domiciled defendant for Lanham Act violati...

Senator Susan Talamantes Eggman was the right person at the right time for veterans in family law matters.

One of the most notable changes required by SB 1155 is the time an insurance company must be given to act on a pre-litigation,...

California has now provided other state and federal courts, and legislative bodies, with the opportunity to consider whether t...

No contest clauses come in all shapes and sizes, from a single paragraph to a dozen pages, and courts have found their enforce...

At a time when conspiracy theories are running rampant, the justice system needs to be all the more deliberate and grounded in...

The admissibility of a suspect’s custodial statement, even post-Miranda invocation, depends on the totality of the circumstances.

Marijuana and the workplace in the age of legalization.

One of the outcomes of SB 1155 is that it imposes substantive requirements on pre-litigation time limited settlement demands.

That issue is discussed at length in the recent First District Court of Appeals decision, Bader v. Johnson & Johnson et...