Blogs

• Hotel Lawyer: California limits use of independent contractors, creating significant liabilities and penalties for California hotel and restaurant employers
• Federal legislation introduced making hotel resort fees and other mandatory charges illegal
• Ask the Hotel Lawyer — Why all the buzz about cannabis hotels?
• Cybersecurity Lawyer: Lessons from Marriott's $123 million GDPR fine
• Resort Fee Litigation Advisory Group: Nebraska sues Hilton over hotel "Resort Fees"

• District Court Finds Patents Invalid for Inequitable Conduct Because Inventor Withheld Material Information Of Prior Sales From USPTO And Litigation Misconduct Justified Inference of Non-Disclosure with An Intent to Deceive
• Motiva v. HTC: Allegations of Willful Blindness Sufficient to Defeat Motion to Dismiss a Claim for Willful Infringement
• District Court Excludes Expert's Opinion on What He Believed a PTO Examiner Would Have Done Had the Plaintiff Disclosed Additional Information to the PTO as Speculative
• Patent Licensee Has Standing to Pursue Patent Infringement Claim Against Patent Licensor/Owner Where Patent Agreement Granted Exclusive License And Did Not Carve Out Patent Owner's Products
• Acceleration v. Activision: District Court Excludes Damage Expert For Claiming That Non-Accused Products Were Non-Infringing Alternatives

• Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps: Part 4 – Verified Requests for Data
• CCPA Legislative Update: What's Next
• Marriott's GDPR Fine – Lessons to be Learned
• Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps: Part 3 – The Privacy Policy
• Social Media Can Be Hazardous to Your Cybersecurity Health Part 2: Solutions

• Live Conference and Webcast: PLI's 21st Annual Commercial Real Estate Institute
• EB-5 Sponsors: Capital Redeployment Can Raise Questions and Increase Litigation Risks
• How the Latest IRS Opportunity Zone Regulations Help Real Estate Developers Qualify for Opportunity Zone Tax Benefits
• Opportunity Zones and U.S. Hotel Development
• Catherine DeBono Holmes recognized by EB5 Investors Magazine as a "Top 15 Corporate Attorney" for the second year

• 2019 Legal Update for the California Construction and Industrial Materials Association
• Why Multinational Mining Companies Need to Perform Effective Legal Diagnoses for their Latin American Operations (and how to go about it)
• How Mining Companies Can Achieve an Effective "Social License to Operate" in Latin America – Part 3
• How Mining Companies Can Achieve an Effective "Social License to Operate" in Latin America – Part 2
• How Mining Companies Can Achieve an Effective "Social License to Operate" in Latin America – Part 1

• Ben Reznik named "Lawyer of the Year" in Land Use & Zoning in Los Angeles
• JMBM Files Lawsuit on Behalf of Coalition Challenging Ventura County Wildlife Corridor Ordinance Approved Without Environmental Review
• California Appeals Court Upholds Legislative Workaround that Mooted CEQA Suit Targeting Development Project in Los Angeles
• JMBM's Land Use & Zoning Practice Ranked as Metropolitan Tier 1 "Best Law Firm" in 2019 by U.S. News & World Report
• New California Prop 65 Warnings Required by August 30, 2018 – Is your business ready?