California Employment News: California Wage Compliance – Avoiding Legal Pitfalls
California Employment News: CA Local Minimum Wage Updates
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Adaptive Reuse: From Desks to Doorways
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 514: Listen and Learn -- Discovery (Civ Pro)
A Counterintuitive Approach to Winning Without Litigation: One-on-One with Haley Morrison
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California Employment News: Creating the Report for a Workplace Investigation – Part 4 (Featured)
Law School Toolbox Podcast Episode 511: Listen and Learn -- Landlord/Tenant Law (Part 1)
From Permits to Penalties: A Deep Dive Into Coastal Development Law
California Employment News: Synthesizing Evidence in a Workplace Investigation – Part 3 (Featured)
Doc Fees Decoded: The Price of Paperwork in Auto Sales — Moving the Metal: The Auto Finance Podcast
(Podcast) California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
California Employment News: Gathering Information in a Workplace Investigation – Part 2 (Featured)
Bar Exam Toolbox Podcast Episode 314: Listen and Learn -- False Imprisonment and Shopkeeper’s Privilege (Torts)
(Podcast) California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
California Employment News: Starting a Workplace Investigation – Part 1 (Featured)
Feeling the Heat: Strategies to Keep Cool Under California's Consumers Legal Remedies Act — The Consumer Finance Podcast
The JustPod: Prosecutor-Initiated Resentencing: A Discussion with Hillary Blout
On August 6, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted a credit reporting agency’s motion to dismiss with leave to amend in a case brought by the CFPB. The court found that CFPB’s claims for...more
If you are involved in a motor vehicle accident while driving in California, you may be entitled to compensation and other forms of relief. However, special rules may apply if the accident involved a school bus. In such a...more
The contours of inverse condemnation liability are often tested by creative California plaintiff’s lawyers. In an opinion earlier this year, one Northern California Federal Court dealt with a novel lawsuit in which the Vichy...more
A California federal court denied a motion to dismiss a former franchisee’s complaint against a healthcare recruitment franchisor’s Chief Executive Officer....more
Court: Superior Court of California, County of Alameda - On June 15, 2023, plaintiffs Alvarino and Dianna J. DaSilva first filed an asbestos action in the Alameda County, Calif., Superior Court, alleging that Alvarino DaSilva...more
In Citizens for a Better Eureka v. City of Eureka (2025) __ Cal. App. 5th __, the First District Court of Appeal affirmed a judgment dismissing a CEQA action that challenged an approval for the redevelopment of a City of...more
In an opinion filed May 14, and later ordered published on June 11, 2025, the First District Court of Appeal (Div. 3) affirmed a judgment dismissing a CEQA action challenging an approval for a City parking lot...more
Hit-and-run accidents are taken seriously in California. Leaving the scene of a crash without stopping can lead to criminal charges, even if the damage seems minor. If you’re involved in a hit-and-run in Sherman Oaks or...more
The Second District Court of Appeal held that, under the pre-reform PAGA statute, an individual employee need not have been employed or experienced a Labor Code violation during the one-year PAGA limitations period to have...more
Although data doesn't exist for all commercial vehicle crashes, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's Crash Statistics database shows that some vehicles commonly used for commercial purposes, such as buses and...more
The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court recently revived a medical device lawsuit (Bennett v. C.R. Bard)1 centered on a fact issue regarding the plaintiff’s knowledge of a product defect as the cause of his condition. The case shines...more
On May 5, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California granted in part and denied in part a motion to dismiss filed by the defendant, a consumer reporting agency, in a case brought by the CFPB in January...more
Last week, in Chavez v. Hi-Grade Materials Co., the California Court of Appeal took up a novel jurisdictional question: Can a putative class action plaintiff unilaterally ring the death knell for the entire class and create...more
Sherman Oaks Castle Park is a popular spot in Encino for mini golf, arcade games, and batting cages. While it’s a family-friendly destination, accidents can and do happen. After an injury, victims may not understand all of...more
A California Court of Appeal recently held that an employee bringing a claim under the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) must be able to allege that he personally suffered a Labor Code violation within the applicable...more
In a decision with important implications for many pending Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) lawsuits, a California Court of Appeal upheld the dismissal of a representative PAGA action as untimely because the plaintiff did...more
PAGA claims brought under pre-reform PAGA must be brought within one year of a Labor Code violation experienced by the plaintiff and because a PAGA claim necessarily has both an individual and a non-individual component,...more
Speeding, distracted or drunk driving, and other kinds of negligence frequently lead to catastrophic car crashes in California. In fact, in 2024 the state saw more than 18,000 injury and fatality causing car accidents. When...more
Outside of small claims court, personal injury lawsuits can be difficult to win. Even in small claims court, you might not find an easy road to victory. Certain types of cases, such as product liability cases and medical...more
A recent decision from a California federal district court should make patent prosecutors and their clients more alert when looking at recent prior art references: they may refer to patent applications filed by competitors...more
Filing a personal injury claim can be challenging, especially in a state full of unusual laws like California. Each year thousands of Californians seek compensation for injuries and accidents. California has specific laws,...more
In recent weeks, our firm obtained summary judgment under a contractual limitations provision that the plaintiff-insured argued had been equitably tolled due to the insurance carrier’s conduct. Although the good guys won, the...more
There are several types of circumstances that can result in a wrongful death claim being filed in California, and one or more family members of the person who died could receive damages from the individual or organization...more
In Center for Biological Diversity v. County of San Benito (2024) 104 Cal.App.5th 22, the Court of Appeal held that the statute of limitations for two CEQA challenges did not begin to run until the Board of Supervisors had...more
On October 21st, the Second District Court of Appeal published a decision in Santa Clarita Organization etc. v. County of Los Angeles (2024) 105 Cal.App.5th 1143 that addresses the question of whether a CEQA challenge to an...more