CIPA Class Action Trends
Watch out for class claims under California's Invasion of Privacy Act over surreptitious call recording.
Business of Law
- Mobile Payment Apps to Collect Legal Fees: How to Get Started
- ‘Squaring’ Away New Credit Card Payment Solutions for Legal Fees
- What Happens When Joint Clients Have a Dispute Over the Fees?
- Ethical Dilemma: How to Deal With an Unconventional Billing Arrangement
- When Is It OK for a Non-Client to Pay the Fees?
Beware of Gifts to Caregivers
A key provision of the Caregiver Statute requires a certificate of independent review if the gift is being made by an elderly person.
Books
- ‘Comebacks for Lawyer Jokes: The Restatement of Retorts’
Reviewed by Bo Links
- ‘The Witches: Salem, 1692’ and ‘We Believe the Children: A Moral Panic in the 1980s’
Reviewed by Barbara Kate Repa
- ‘Glass Half Full’ and ‘The Trouble With Lawyers’
Reviewed by Gerald F. Uelmen
Expert Advice
The Art of Getting Paid
A series of blog posts that provide tips and advice on legal billing.
Current topic: Retainer Options
Verbatim
Judges in their own words
“We are reminded of the song lyric from a half-century ago: ‘You don’t miss your water/Till your well runs dry.’ (William Bell, “You Don't Miss Your Water” (Universal Music Pub. Group 1961).)”
— Presiding Justice Conrad Rushing, California Court of Appeal, Sixth Appellate District
Tech
Earn MCLE Credit
Video: Legally Speaking
Antonin Scalia
In remembrance, Justice Scalia's Legally Speaking interview from September 2011.
Produced with the generous support of GIRARDI | KEESE
Blogroll
- Like? Yikes!
- FTC Issues Report on ANDA Settlement Agreements
- IP Dispute Over Digital Animation May Shutter Films
- “Audible Gasps” in Court as Justice Thomas Asks a Question
- Figuring Out Taxes, Pay And More On Leap Day: Are You Working For Free Today?
- Updated Analysis of Attrition through the 2014-15 Academic Year
- Ms. JD Weekly Roundup: Week ending February 26, 2016
- the impact of Scalia's writings and writing style
