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- What The ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ May Mean To You
- Arbitration Agreements Must Be Fair, Not Just Look Fair
- Standing Requires Being on Firm Ground
- Asking a Question Could Be Costly
- Employers Get a Break on Meal Breaks
- Contracts Have Limits for Wrongdoers
- A Conflict of Interest Without Having a Client?
- A Welcome Update to California’s Probate Law
- The Penalty for Breaching Attorney-Client Confidentiality
- Where To Place Blame When Safety Rules Are Broken
- Caretaker or Unfair Taker?
- When No One Says “Start”
- A Message About the Wildfires
- When Heavyweights Tussle, Stand Back
- FinCEN BOI Reporting Requirements Are Suspended
- A Bequest With Too Many Strings
- When Is an Arbitrator’s Ruling Final?
- An IRA Was Not Part of This Estate
- 2024 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves
- Year-End Tax Tips for Businesses
- Year-End Tax Tips for Individuals
- Was It Love or Undue Influence?
- New FinCEN Reporting Requirements for Residential Real Estate Transactions
- How Much Unconscionability Is Too Much?
- How Far Does a “Duty of Care” Extend?
- In an Unlawful Detainer, Details Matter
- No Arbitration for Disputes Affecting the Public?
- Supreme Court Ruling Weighs Against Corporate Ownership of Life Insurance
- Angry Post-Divorce Words End Up In Court
- Transferring Controlling Shares Triggers Reassessment of Real Estate
- Intentions Are Not Modifications
- In Arbitration, Every Detail Can Be Important
- What Happens When a Lawyer Does Wrong?
- Ready, Set … Wait!
- Corporate Transparency Act Ruled Unconstitutional By Alabama Court
- Is The Cost of Cable TV A Secret?
- Financial Showdown Over Video Services
- What Courts Can and Cannot Do To Stop Elder Abuse
- The Corporate Transparency Act: Mandatory Reporting Has Begun
- To Protect Your Rights, Watch the Calendar
- 2023 Year-End Tax-Planning Moves
- Year-End Tax Letter for Businesses
- Year-End Tax Strategies for Personal Taxes
- Unlawful May Not Be Actionable
- More Housing or More Bedrooms?
- An Arbitrator Cannot Appear Biased
- If “Sole Custody” Conflicts With “Best Interests”
- When Deadlines Can Turn Deadly
- Is DIY Law OK in Probate Court?
- A Contract Dispute or a First Amendment Conflict?
- Did COVID Trigger “Force Majeure” Clauses?
- Untangling a Landlord-Tenant Dispute
- Sidestepping the "Mansion Tax"
- Multiple Employment Contracts Can Doom An Arbitration Agreement
- Can Jets Pierce This Corporate Veil?
- How a Letter Became a Will
- A Family Feud – Over Love or Money?
- Even in Games, Arbitration Must be Impartial
- What Obligations Do Employers Owe When Pregnancy Leaves End?
- When Can an Attorney Use ‘Privileged’ Material?
- Expensive Lesson for Trustee Who Favored Some Beneficiaries Over Others
- Employment Arbitration Agreements Must Be Fair
- Measure ULA: The Tax Man Cometh – and Taketh
- Is Not Saying ‘No’ a Contract?
- Year-End Tax Planning for 2022
- Year-End Tax Planning for Individuals
- Year-End Tax Planning for Businesses
- Employer Overreach Will Doom An Arbitration Agreement
- Valensi Rose's 70th Anniversary - A Historical Timeline
- When Two Agreements Conflict
- Can the Government Be Forced to Arbitrate?
- Home Is Not Just Where Your Heart Is
- Must a Website Accommodate the Blind?
- Health Care and the Law Really are Different
- Can an Employer Obtain Discovery of an Employee’s Immigration Status?
- The Inflation Reduction Act's Credits for Individuals and Small Businesses
- You Can’t Play When You Are Not in The Game
- Lying About Forgery Can Be Costly
- Good Fences Can Make Bad Lawsuits
- Can You Surrender Your Rights When You Are Out of Your Mind?
- Before You Sign a Premarital Agreement, Read It
- What If You Can’t Afford Arbitration?
- 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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