By Cheryl Miller | April 13, 2023
The auditor's report also found flaws in the state bar's tracking of lawyer disciplinary cases sent to outside counsel.
By Cheryl Miller | April 13, 2023
Legislation would allow city attorneys and county counsel to assume a role usually left to California's labor commissioner.
By Cheryl Miller | April 5, 2023
Backers of Senate Bill 581 say consumers need more transparency from the legal-financing industry. But members of the plaintiffs bar warn that a key provision in the legislation would give defense counsel an unfair tactical advantage.
By Ellen Bardash | March 29, 2023
Despite the First State's existing medical marijuana program and its reputation as a business hub, the state currently doesn't have many attorneys focusing on the legal cannabis industry, but demand could increase.
By Alan B. Morrison | March 27, 2023
"Until a national solution can be found, that covers all states and all funding sources, there are likely to be lawsuits, including some class actions, against medical boards and insurance companies for refusal to pay for telehealth services, and perhaps claims by out-of-state patients for deaths or serious injuries when their conditions worsened because they could not talk to their regular doctors," says George Washington University Law School's Alan Morrison.
By Cheryl Miller | March 22, 2023
SB 662 would authorize courts to record civil proceedings when a certified shorthand reporter is not available. Labor groups representing court-employed reporters vowed to fight the bill.
By Cheryl Miller | March 17, 2023
The unanimous three-judge panel said Uber and Postmates made a viable argument that legislatively provided exemptions to California's worker classification law "were the result of 'lobbying' and 'backroom dealing' as opposed to adherence to the stated purpose of the legislation."
By David A. Carrillo and David A. Kaiser | March 16, 2023
"Supporters of increased affordable housing think a recently proposed initiative constitutional amendment will generate increased state power to impose building mandates on local governments. That's unlikely to happen, because a new constitutional right to adequate housing has dim prospects in the courts," says David Carrillo and David Kaiser of the California Constitution Center.
By Alaina Lancaster | March 14, 2023
A California appeals court ruling largely flips an August 2021 decision finding Prop 22 encroached on the Legislature's constitutional authority.
By Cheryl Miller | March 10, 2023
Senate Judiciary Chairman Tom Umberg said revelations that Tom Girardi cultivated relationships with and, in some cases, showered gifts and money on former state bar employees while the agency closed more than 100 disciplinary complaints against him is "mind boggling."
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