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The Labor and Employment Law Section is now a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Provider and offers affiliate membership to HR professionals. Read more

California declared Labor Day, the first Monday in September, a legally recognized holiday in 1892. Two years later, in 1894, Labor Day became a federal holiday as well. The origins of the holiday stem from parades to celebrate trade and labor unions and to honor their contributions, which strengthen the communities where they worked. Labor Day also helped activists gain recognition for the mistreatment of workers, leading to the impactful legislation California has approved in recent years.  Read more

Client trust accounting is a balancing act. To keep from stumbling over, you have to keep the ledgers up to date, checked and balanced. Read more

An attorney I met recently lamented that he spends most of his workdays reacting to emails. He starts each day with a long to-do list and feels lucky to finish one or two things under the incessant email barrage. I can relate. Those of us who are on email listservs have no doubt received an email flurry sparked by an interesting (or not so interesting) question or important (or not so important) piece of news and have seen the frantic emails from attorneys begging to be removed from the listserv and pleading with others to not "Reply All."  Read more

One of my favorite qualities of summer is that it’s so effortless to come together. Plans, friends, family—there’s always something special that happens in summer. It’s as if Jenny Han was speaking about California Lawyers Association (CLA) when she said, “Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August." Read more

If you could change anything about your practice with the snap of your fingers, what would you choose? Many lawyers would say their time-consuming billing and invoicing processes. After all, most would rather spend time helping clients than completing administrative tasks.  Read more

The Public Law Section held its Law Enforcement Practices and Liability Conference in San Diego on May 25 and 26, 2023. The timing of the conference was prescient given the Attorney General’s June 30, 2023, release of the 2022 Criminal Justice Statistics Report that highlighted, among other things, the use of force by law enforcement in California. Read more

On August 1, 2023, new rule 8.3, derisively referred to as “the lawyer rat rule,” became effective in California, requiring lawyers to report other lawyers’ serious misconduct.  Read more

What do Anthony Bourdain and my summer have in common? Everything. This summer, I took a trip of a lifetime. The one where you realize that Anthony was right when he said that “the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” Read more

CLA’s Antitrust and Unfair Competition Law Section inaugurated its series of Summer Associate Mixers in Los Angeles last month.  Read more