Local Issues

To Be Online, Or Not To Be Online: That Is the Question

In an age where educational materials can be digitized and hosted online to provide for easy access virtually anywhere, schools face the decision of making course materials available online, and running the risk of getting ensnared in a copyright infringement lawsuit, or constraining their students to traditional (more…)

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A Big Headache for Hangover: Artist Sues for Copyright Infringement

By Christina Paquette – The Hangover: Part II was released last week to much fanfare, raking in $137.4 million, and earning the title for the biggest five-day opening of an R-rated movie ever. But the opening was almost barred by a lawsuit brought by S. Victor Whitmill, (more…)

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Employers’ Email Policy Trumps Employee’s Attorney-Client Privilege

  Written by Alexandra M. Steinberg Communications sent to an attorney by an employee using an employer’s computers or equipment may not be protected by the attorney-client privilege.  On January 13, 2011, the California Court of Appeal, Third District, affirmed a judgment against an employee after the (more…)

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Organ and Bone Marrow Donors Now Entitled to Paid Leave in California

By Martin E. Sullivan – As of January 1, 2011, employers with 15 or more employees working in California must provide them paid leave to make organ or bone marrow donations.  Organ donors are eligible for up to 30 days paid leave, and bone marrow donors are (more…)

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California Employment Law Seminar

Dear Clients, Colleagues, and Friends: I am very pleased to inform you of an upcoming daylong seminar focusing on California employment law.  I will be the moderator of the program and one of the presenters.  This will be of great interest to employers, entrepreneurs, HR professionals, supervisors, (more…)

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Mandatory Pro Bono?

 As young attorneys, we sometimes have a very idealistic view of the world.   We imagine all the great things we can accomplish and all the people we can help with our newfound knowledge and skill.   Then we start practicing law and reality sets in.  We realize that between (more…)

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