Simas & Associates, Ltd. is open Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Fridays, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Special appointments for advice and consultation can be made after hours and on weekends. In December, Simas & Associates, Ltd.’s offices will be closed at 1:00 PM on Friday, Read more…
Congratulations are in order for Jimy Hu, Law Clerk at Simas & Associates, Ltd. Today he was sworn-in as a member of the State Bar of California. See below image of Jimy as he is sworn-in by Assemblywoman Mariko Yamada: Jimy works as a law clerk at Simas & Associates, assisting Read more…
Simas & Associates, Ltd. published its inaugural newsletter on Friday, December 7, 2012. After having hinted at it for a number of months on its website, the newsletter was officially launched, carrying news about the law firm, its staff, relevant news items and more. “I am very pleased,” Steve Simas Read more…
Administrative hearings come in all varieties ranging from a local government building permit issue to a Medical Board license revocation case. More often than not the nature of the rights at stake in the administrative hearing are quite significant. In particular, the California Administrative Procedure Act governs the rights of Read more…
Today is election day – so don’t forget to vote! Even though the Presidential, Senate, or Congressional elections may be a foregone conclusion (depending upon your location), there are a number of hotly contested ballot propositions and voter initiatives worth reviewing and contributing to their ultimate fate. For assistance on Read more…
Simas & Associates, Ltd. is open Monday through Thursday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, and Fridays, 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Special appointments for advice and consultation can be made after hours and on weekends. In November, Simas & Associates, Ltd.’s offices will be closed on the following dates in Read more…
Litigation is expensive and time-consuming. It often draws out disputes over a number of years. It has a tendency to lead to a litany of unintended consequences that leave all participants bitter in the end. As a result, it is unsurprising that alternative dispute resolution (“ADR”) has proliferated as a Read more…
Is citation style really all that important? Does it really matter whether we use 12 or 13 point font and whether we use the California Style Manual or The Bluebook? Edward W. Jessen, Reporter of Decision for the California Supreme Court argues, yes, in his convincing article, “Citation Style: Why 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. (Civ. Code §§ 1670.5(a), 1689(b), 1793.2(d), 1793.22(b)). However, in a number 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 before it’s an ethics issue by Joe Dysart. It is Read more…