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Trial courts in and around Los Angeles have heavier civil caseloads than ever, driven in large part by consumer collections, “Lemon Law” claims, and labor disputes. Litigators have had their hands full in and around Los Angeles. According...

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State Lawmakers Not Reluctant to Regulate Tech in 2024: All 46 states that held legislative sessions this year enacted measures regulating technology, 238 measures in all, a 163% increase from 2023, according to a new report from New York University’s...

Question: Are incarcerated persons in California entitled to in-person court hearings? Short Answer: No, Proposition 57 does not require or imply a right to an in-person hearing. In a 2022 decision, the California Court of Appeal ruled that nonviolent...

By: Christiane Cargill Kinney , LeClairRyan LEXIS PRACTICE ADVISOR RESEARCH PATH: California Business & Commercial > Entertainment Law > Practice Notes > Managers, Agents and Attorneys Before drafting any agreement for services to be...

New Lexis Content New publications released on Lexis this month: Oklahoma Employment Law The Law of Commercial Trucking: Damages to Persons and Property, 4th Edition AAA Employment Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures 403(b) Answer Book...

By The Wagstaffe Group California Arbitration Fees California litigators pursuing arbitration take heed: the failure to timely pay arbitration fees could have disastrous consequences for your client. A California appellate court has yet again held...

While in-house counsel at U.S. companies have been monitoring their compliance with a wave of new salary transparency laws, a court has given new life to a closely watched pay discrimination case in California. A California appeals court ruled in Allen...

New Lexis Content New publications released on Lexis this month: Restatement of the Law: The Laws of American Indians – Official Text Maine Title Standards The California Prison and Parole Handbook Transportation Antitrust Handbook ...

This article appears in the Spring 2023 Inmate Litigation Reporter , an exclusive quarterly digest analyzing new legal developments affecting the rights of people in prison -- developed specifically for people in prison. To learn more about this content...

It’s common for lawyers to seek some sort of mental escape from the daily grind of the legal profession. For some, it’s golf. For others, it’s a motorcycle. For attorney Jill Singer, it’s a ukulele. “It gives me great...

It’s not uncommon for folks outside the legal profession to treat legalese as a foreign language. But for many of Lisa Cowan’s clients, it’s both the figurative and literal truth. Cowan is an attorney with Brereton Law Office , a boutique...

Attorney Dan Minutillo is the founding shareholder of Minutillo Law Corporation , a small boutique firm in San Jose, California that’s been around for over four decades—a testament to both his passion for the law and the business strategy...

By Rich Ehisen A January 2022 report from the National Partnership for Women & Families found that women in the United States are paid 83 cents for every dollar paid to men, amounting to an annual gender wage gap of $10,435 on the median pay for...

Following on the heels of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, commonly referred to as GDPR , comes CCPA, the California Consumer Privacy Act. It’s California’s effort to enhance consumer data privacy at the state...

When Alina Landver launched her Beverly Hills, California tort and business litigation practice in 2014, she was making a drastic change: from serving as the top in-house lawyer at a renowned fashion design house to becoming a tort and business litigation...

California Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated California corporations now have a mechanism to retroactively remedy defective corporate actions, after lawmakers approved new procedures to allow corporations to petition the superior court to ratify...

By Jim Wagstaffe | Partner at Wagstaffe, von Loewenfeldt, Busch, & Radwick LLC Motions that can win your client’s case As a former judicial law clerk, teacher of judges and practice guide author, I am often asked: “How do you win motions...

By Jim Wagstaffe | Partner at Wagstaffe, von Loewenfeldt, Busch, & Radwick LLC What Law School Doesn’t Teach New Lawyers Just over a century ago, the study of law migrated from young lawyers apprenticing at the feet of their wise elders...

California Corporations Code California’s state legislature enacted or amended more than 40 sections in the Corporations Code and related codes, including new powers for corporate entities in an emergency, amended laws permitting remote shareholder...

Vaccine Mandates Force Employers to Ponder Religion: The surge in COVID-19 cases across the United States largely due to the Delta variant has prompted a growing number of major companies, including Google parent Alphabet, Tyson Foods and Walmart, to...

CA Vaccination-or-Test Requirement to Apply to Private-Sector Healthcare Workers: Under a new rule taking effect in California next month, an estimated 246,000 state employees and at least 2 million public- and private-sector health care workers and...

Just-Signed Insurance Reform Bill Already Working in FL: A bill ( SB 76 ) reforming property insurance and roofing contractor practices in Florida was just signed into law by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) on June 11 and won’t officially take effect until...

CO Becomes Third State to Pass Consumer Data Privacy Bill: Colorado has become the third state - after California and Virginia - to pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy bill. On June 8 the state’s General Assembly passed SB 190 , which,...

CA to Spend $6B on Broadband: California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill ( SB 156 ) last week committing the state to spending $6 billion over the next three years on expanding broadband access, particularly in underserved and rural communities...