1/29/2025 6:36:00 PM California's New Insurance Fix Faces Multi-Billion-Dollar Wildfire Test By Shanti Eagle Download a PDF of this piece The Southern California wildfire crisis struck just when the Department of Insurance’s “Sustainable...
10/10/2024 10:47:00 PM New Wildfire Rules Aim To Ignite Coverage in High-Risk Areas By Shanti Eagle Download a PDF of this piece Sept. 21, 2024 marked the one-year anniversary of Governor Newsom’s executive order directing the Department...
7/31/2024 12:00:00 AM What Have We Learned From the First Six Months Under the New Federal Rule of Evidence 702? By Dan Callaway Tim Horgan-Kobelski Download a PDF of this piece As patent practitioners know, Daubert motions can be some of the most hotly contested and pivotal motions in...
5/9/2024 11:40:00 PM The Components of Effective and Defensible Workplace Investigations By Jaya Bajaj Download a PDF of this piece Harassment, discrimination and retaliation are serious workplace threats that demand vigilant attention from...
1/30/2024 6:49:00 PM Trial Courts’ Tool Box Doesn’t Include PAGA Manageability Authority By Chandra Andrade Ben Buchwalter In Estrada v. Royalty Carpet Mills, Inc., the California Supreme Court jump-started 2024 with a boon to employees, ending trial courts’...
1/4/2024 9:20:00 PM SB 699 and AB 1076: California Enacts Further Prohibitions on Noncompete Agreements By Ben Buchwalter Download a PDF of this piece California is expanding its longstanding prohibition on noncompete agreements in 2024, in some of the most...
10/26/2023 12:01:00 AM AI and Trade Secrets: A Complicated Friendship By Eugene Mar Tom Pardini Download a PDF of this piece Excitement has been growing for decades around the development, training, and use of generative AI, but this...
1/27/2023 11:37:00 PM How To Avoid Allegations of Trade Secret Misappropriation in California By Eugene Mar Raven Quesenberry Download a PDF of this piece When departing a company, an executive, founder, or employee with access to trade secrets or confidential...
10/5/2022 8:25:00 PM Protecting “What Not to Do” as a Negative Trade Secret By Eugene Mar Tom Pardini Download a PDF of this piece “Negative trade secrets”—i.e., secret know-how about what does not work—are generally protectable in...
6/5/2022 11:44:00 PM AB 525: Laying the Foundation for California's Offshore Wind Industry By John Ugai Through Assembly Bill (AB) 525, California joined the flurry of activity in the offshore wind industry in 2021 led by the Biden...