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One Fell Swoop offered an excellent opportunity to address the mandatory MCLE requirements but with a family law focus. Topics included the ethics of money, self-represented litigants and unbundling, ethical duties of experts, ethics and technology, attorney competence and bias in family law. Read more

Initially, I thought my first message as Chair of the Family Law Section should point out all the wonderful benefits that come with being a member. You know —benefits like 6 hours of free MCLE credit, low cost, yet highly informative, webinars and self-study articles, and periodicals which keep you abreast of important happenings in the world of California family law. Read more

Governor Newsom has now signed SB 542, a bill which creates a rebuttable presumption that firefighters and certain peace officers diagnosed with PTSD have incurred an industrial injury. Read more

Since the Kite decision issued in 2013, there have been a number of cases, nearly all Board Panel Decisions, which have discussed the issue of adding versus combining of disabilities. None of the cases that I have found consider whether or not the reasoning in Kite was sound. From the defense perspective, the reasoning in the case just never made sense to me. Read more

It is with great excitement and pride that I have assumed the role of Chair of the Executive Committee of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the California lawyers Association.my Term Runs from October 12th of this year for one year. I have been privileged to be a part of the executive committee as it transitioned from functioning as part of the State Bar of California to its new role as a section within the newly formed California Lawyers Association. Read more

The 28th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite® is just days away! We look forward to seeing many of you on October 17-20, 2019, at the Tenaya Lodge in Fish Camp, California, minutes from Yosemite National Park. We have planned an outstanding array of panel discussions and morning plenary speakers, including Kori Carew (Friday), Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law (Saturday), and Jared Blumenfeld, California Secretary for Environmental Protection, and Wade Crowfoot, California Secretary for Natural Resources (Sunday). We will have a lunchtime Q&A session with Senator Scott Wiener on Friday, and our Saturday dinner speaker will be Mustafa Santiago Ali of the National Wildlife Federation. Read more

As with any new CLA year, the IP Section Executive Committee has rotated its officers. Many thanks to Tom Hassing, outgoing Chair and to outgoing Executive Committee members Bennet Kelley, Alex Chan, and Todd Iketani. Read more

Intangible Assets is the official podcast of the Intellectual Property Law Section. It is a monthly interview show featuring conversations with attorneys, academics, and other influential people in all areas of IP law. New episodes will come out on the first Tuesday of every month. Read more

This week, at the CLA Annual Meeting, our new Section leadership will begin their terms. Welcome to incoming Chair Erich Shiners, Vice Chair Deborah Maddux, and Secretary Adam Fiss! I enjoyed this year as Section Chair tremendously, and I am equally thrilled to step down from the role. I look forward to the steep drop in emails that will instantly accompany the change! Read more

The November issue of our Section’s Labor & Employment Law Review celebrates the 60th Anniversary of the enactment of the Unruh Civil Rights Act. Former DFEH Director Phyllis Cheng provides a retrospective in her article “The Unruh Civil Rights Act at 60.” Workplace investigator and former Chair of the Section Amy Oppenheimer offers an article, co-authored with Aleza Trigueros, titled "The Meaning of Due Process in Harassment Investigations." Read more