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- What You Sign is What You Agree To
- If You Say It in Your Trust, You’d Better Mean It
- You Can’t Give Away Rights That Are Not Yours
- How Much Authority Does an Authorized Representative Have?
- Employer Mistakes In Moving To Compel Arbitration: A Retrospective
- Why Business Interruption Insurance Doesn’t Cover COVID Losses
- He Signed on Mom’s Behalf – Is that Binding?
- Year-End Tax-Planning Moves
- Year-End Planning Client Letter for Individuals
- Year-End Planning for Businesses
- The Lesson of This Global Battle: You Can’t Have It Both Ways
- For Insurers, COVID-19 Was the Wrong Kind of Disaster
- Three Strikes and This Fiduciary is Out
- The Law Says It’s Community Property. Or It’s Not
- Don’t Overlook “Change In Ownership” and "Change of Control" Rules
- Nothing’s as Certain as Death, Taxes and Estate Planning
- A Quick Laugh Leaves the Court Unamused
- Even in Hollywood, Lawyers Can’t Just Play the Role
- Do-It-Yourself Lawyering Can Be Costly
- What Part of ‘One-Time’ Do You Not Understand?
- So Close, But Yet So Far
- The Right To Evict Isn’t Cloudy
- Looking Legal Isn’t The Same as Being Legal
- How California’s New Homestead Exemption May Affect You
- How The New Tax Law May Affect You
- Year-End Tax-Planning Moves
- Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Businesses and Business Owners
- Proposition 19 Undermines Parent-Child Property Tax Exemption, But Is Good News For Older Homeowners
- Shutting Out the Attorney Opens The Door to an Appeal
- How Emergency Measures Affect Commercial Property Leases
- Eye Doctor’s View of Arbitration Was Fuzzy
- Click To Buy – Or To Sue
- For Better or for Worse – But for Bankruptcy?
- This Dispute's Origins Go Back 66 Million Years
- How Covid-19 Can Affect Lease and Contract Issues
- A Multimillion-Dollar Trip to Saks Fifth Avenue
- Proposed Law Threatens Commercial Landlords
- Robert Frost Never Shared a Driveway
- The Importance of Keeping Corporate Minutes
- Court Says Trustee’s Fraud Calls for Punitive Damages
- Why Let Death End a Concert Career, When It Can Be an Encore?
- Dad’s Intentions Were On The Record
- Will AB5 Turn All Gig Workers Into Employees?
- Year-End Tax Planning for 2019
- 2109 Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- 2019 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Businesses & Business Owners
- Arbitration, Litigation and the Calendar
- What Part of “Completely Confidential” Is Unclear?
- Workers Must Get 30 Minutes for Meals
- A Beautiful View Triggers an Ugly Dispute
- Dental Partnership Has to Open Wide for a Trust
- When Does an Arbitration Clause Become Unconscionable?
- Money, Drums and Free Speech
- When Your Back Yard Becomes A Tourist Attraction
- This Gift Got Pretty Expensive
- The Bumpy Road of an Easement
- Year-End Tax Planning for 2018
- 2018 Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- 2018 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Businesses and Business Owners
- A Probate Battle Crosses Cultures, Time and Distance
- Disinherited Heir Complained Too Late, Says Court
- In Michael Jackson Lawsuit, Court Tells Plaintiff to Beat It
- Complaints About Dental Expenses Resulted in Legal Pain
- This Star Had The Wrong Autograph
- If You Change Your Mind, Change Your Beneficiaries
- What Happens If You Can’t Afford Arbitration?
- Smile at the Monkey With the Camera
- And The Oscar Goes To . . . The IRS?
- “Emperor of the Beach” Has No Clothes
- Tigers Next Door – What Could Go Wrong?
- Anti-SLAPP Motion Backfires in Probate Court
- Good Easements Make Good Neighbors
- ‘Close Enough’ Doesn’t Always Work In A Lawsuit
- Year-End Tax Planning for 2017
- 2017 Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- 2017 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves for Businesses and Business Owners
- The Marriage Ended; The Debt Didn’t
- You Don’t Have to Arbitrate About Arbitration
- Sister's Attempt to Exclude Her Brother from Mother's Trust Gets Slapped Down
- Want to Leave a Review? Make it Crude, Ungrammatical and Untrustworthy
- Who Is The Client? Sometimes It’s Not So Obvious
- Hide Your Money in an LLC, and the Court May LOL
- Arbitration Is Final – Except When It Isn’t
- A Solid Ruling on Liquidated Damages
- For Celebrities, The Veil of Privacy Can Be Thin
- Does Sergio Garcia’s Victory at Augusta Qualify for a Master’s in Tax?
- It Isn’t OK to Scam a Scammer
- When It Comes to Taxes, It’s “Pay Now, Litigate Later”
- Battling in the Court of Public Opinion
- A Trustee Is Not A Babysitter
- When an Adult is Vulnerable to Financial Abuse or Exploitation
- To Discount or Not to Discount, That is the Question
- A Conflict of Interest Right at Home
- Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Individuals
- Year-End Tax Planning Moves for Businesses and Business Owners
- Uber Gets a Lift on Arbitration
- Reduce Estate Tax With a Life Insurance Trust
- Tenant’s Janitor Slips, Landlord Takes The Fall
- Save Big Taxes When Selling Small Business Stock
- Prejudgment Interest Can Be Serious Money
- Sometimes It Just Takes a Letter
- School Gets an “F” for Out-of-State Arbitration Clause
- Yelp Yelps About Court’s Review
- Does the I in IRS Stand for Impressario?
- Residential Landlords Beware
- A "BIG" Tax Problem Is Now Easier to Avoid When Converting from C to S Status
- Preventing a Tax Nightmare: How Divorcing Shareholders in a Corporate Dispute Saved Thousands Through Reorganization
- Fiduciaries Beware: Bankruptcy may not absolve you of judgments against you.
- Guarantors Catch a Break
- Who You Gonna Call?
- Waiving the Right to a Labor Commission Hearing
- Streaming for Dollars
- Gold Diggers Beware
- Think Your Employee's Bluffing About Coming Back To Work? Be Prepared To Call, And To Show Your Cards
- Lender Cannot Pursue Borrower For Deficiency Judgment After Short Sale
- New Requirement in Commercial Leases Effective July 1
- Another Case on Unconscionability
- When Are Boilerplate Unfair And One-Sided Provisions In Consumer Agreements Unenforceable?
- Another Bad Employee Compensation Idea: Paying Exempt Employees By The Hour, With No Minimum Guarantees
- Another Case Just Came Down Involving The Issues Of When A Contract Is Unconscionable
- Mixed Motive Terminations: After A California Supreme Court Ruling, An Employer's Potential Liability Is Still In the Mix
- How Low Can You Go? A California Employer's Potential Liability For Salary Reductions
- Firm's 60th Anniversary Profiled in the Daily Journal
- Michael R. Morris to Moderate at 2012 Entertainment Industry Conference
- Negotiating Listing Agreements
- Michael Morris to Discuss Financial Strategies for Music Copyright Stakeholders at California Copyright Conference
- Michael Morris Interviewed on KTLA Television on Income Tax Pitfalls
- Trivedi v. Curexo Technology: a warning about pre-dispute employment arbitration agreements
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