California has banned most taxpayer-funded travel to four states that have adopted anti-LGBT protective rights laws. In addition to the states that the State of California’s Office of Attorney General identified in November for inclusion on the list – Mississippi, Read more…
Our law firm’s primary practice area is representing professional licensees and healthcare licensees before the various licensing agencies within the state of California and its local or municipal levels of government. Most of these matters are “litigated” – if at Read more…
While home brewing and home wine making are on the rise and finding more receptive lawmakers across the country, home distilling is still illegal. It is illegal under federal law, mirror-restricted in the states, and unlikely to be altered or amended Read more…
On November 7, 2016, Julianne Allen, Senior Paralegal at Simas & Associates, Ltd., guest lectured at American River College. The students were part of the Paralegal Program and the course was “Administrative Law and Procedure” taught by Julia Brynelson, Adjunct Professor. Read more…
Mitigation evidence, in the civil lawsuit realm, is evidence used to thwart a potential affirmative defense of the failure to limit ones damages. This evidence is done to demonstrate to the opposing party and/or adjudicator of your dispute that once Read more…
An attorney advising a client has no duty to a third party affected by that advice unless there is a “showing that the legal advice was foreseeably transmitted to or relied upon by a third party or the third party Read more…
The National Practitioner Data Bank (“NPDB”) was created by Congress and contains information related to “certain adverse actions related to health care practitioners, entities, providers, and suppliers.”[1] The law determines what types of adverse actions are reportable to the NPDB, Read more…
California Elections Code, section 14001 requires all employers to post a notice to employees advising them of provisions for taking paid leave for the purpose of voting in statewide elections. A sample of this notice, as well as a notice Read more…
The purpose of this blog article is to dispel a number of misconceptions potential clients have regarding attorneys accepting matters on contingency fees. Simas & Associates, Ltd.’s client intake team receives dozens of calls per month inquiring about legal representation Read more…
How often do people get injured due to the negligence of the government or some other public entity? All too often, right? In an attempt to limit the number of lawsuits filed against public agencies and/or entities, the legislature enacted Read more…