Many California licensees or professionals applying for an occupational or business license who have been convicted of drug-related offenses do not understand the consequences of their conviction. More often than not, the licensing authority – whether a state licensing Board Read more…
Under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), an agency may designate as “precedent” a decision or part of a decision “that contains a significant legal or policy determination of general application that is likely to recur.” (Government Code §11425.60(b)). Precedent decisions Read more…
On August 24th, a nine-person jury in California awarded Apple Inc. (maker of the iPhone and iPad product lines) over $1 billion in damages, holding that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (creator of the Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab lines) had willfully infringed Read more…
In the August 2012 issue of the ABA Journal, G. M. Gilisko penned an article, Where the Buck Stops: Lawyers Need to Verify All the Nice Things Being Said About Them Online. The article goes on to examine the alarming Read more…
(This article first appeared in the January/February 2008 issue of the Sacramento Lawyer, the bi-monthly publication of the Sacramento County Bar Association. The article is the copyrighted property of the Sacramento County Bar Association.) This article discusses two of the main Read more…
California consumers have a legal right to immediately cancel contracts under a variety of contractual law theories. Contracts can be terminated for fraud, fraudulent executon (Jones v. Adams Financial Services (1999) 71 Cal.App.4th 831, 839), mistake, undue influence, breach, illegality,nonconformity, and unconscionability. Read more…
The California State Bar recently adopted new Rules of Court and State Bar Rules that reserves the right to suspend an attorney’s license to practice law in the State of California if the attorney owes a large delinquent tax liability. Read more…
Will ignorance of or the failure to adopt certain technological tools, such as e-discovery, be considered an ethical violation in the future? An interesting discussion of the implications of this issue can be found in A Discovery: Study tech-aided review Read more…
The California Contractors State License Board (CSLB) recently announced that it has joined forces with the contracting boards from Arizona, Nevada and Oregon, as well as the National Association of State Contractors Licensing Agencies (NASCLA) to issue a nationwide consumer Read more…
Many companies rely upon unpaid interns as a way to minimize costs and provide opportunities to eager workers who are willing to work for free in hopes of ultimately securing a paid position. However, such an approach is risky, and Read more…