by Kate Vescera | May 11, 2023 | Business Law, Litigation Matters, News
In the recent Gwyneth Paltrow ski case, the Plaintiff claimed that Paltrow had skied into him leaving him with life-altering brain damage. Paltrow claimed that the Plaintiff had in fact skied into her. The jury decided in favor of Paltrow, awarding her the $1 she was...
by Kate Vescera | Mar 3, 2023 | artificial intelligence, Business Law, News
The growing importance of artificial intelligence (AI) is creating novel and interesting challenges for California businesses and out-of-state companies that do business in California. Moreover, as some of the most important technology companies in the world are based...
by Kate Vescera | Jan 26, 2023 | Business Law, Employment - California, News
What is the Proposed FTC Rule? The FTC has proposed a new rule (the “FTC Rule”) that would prohibit non-compete agreements in most employment situations. (The full text of the FTC Rule can be found here:...
by Matthew Vesterdahl, Dima Hanna, Kate Vescera | Oct 20, 2022 | Business Law, News
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) is a federal law that attempts to reduce the use of shell companies to obscure ownership by requiring corporate entities to disclose their true or “beneficial” owners and other related identifying information to the Financial...
by Kate Vescera | Oct 22, 2020 | Business Law, Employment - California, News
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the waiting time for a case to come to trial was often well over a year. Due to the pandemic, that waiting time has gotten even longer. Many courts have been essentially closed for months, with some still not being fully open yet....