Blogs
Hotel Law Blog
- 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"
Patent Law Blog
- Maxell v. Apple: Court Denies Motion To Dismiss Claim for Induced Infringement
- 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
Cybersecurity Lawyer Forum
- Complying with the California Consumer Privacy Act in 5 (more or less) Not So Easy Steps: Part 5 – Consumer Rights
- 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
Investment Law Blog
- Are You Eligible for Tax-Free Capital Gains? How Business Founders and Investors Can Exclude Up to 100% of Their Capital Gains from Federal Income Taxes under the Qualified Small Business Stock Exclusion
- 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
Natural Resources & Mining Law Blog
- 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
California Land Use Blog
- JMBM's Land Use & Zoning Law Practice Ranked in 2020 Edition of U.S. News – Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms."
- 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
ADA Compliance and Defense Blog
- ADA Website Compliance: It's back to the trial court for Domino's Pizza
- Curbing Abusive ADA Litigation: Central District Judges Move to Control Their Dockets
- Serial ADA Plaintiff Indicted by Federal Grand Jury for Income Tax Evasion
- Riverside County DA drops the hammer on ADA litigant and counsel to stop abusive litigation
- Are your electric vehicle charging stations accessible to disabled guests under California's latest regulations?