10/2/2026 5:00:00 PM When Assets Become Liabilities: Managing Risk and Value in Wine Industry Transactions By Anthony Schoenberg MaryJo Lopez-Oneal Tony Schoenberg and MaryJo Lopez-Oneal discuss on "When Assets Become Liabilities: Managing Risk and Value in Wine Industry...
9/2/2026 9:40:38 PM SB 574 Advances: California AI Rules for Lawyers & Arbitrators Near Enactment By Jeffrey Fisher Morgan Churma As an update to our May 27, 2026 article, on Monday, August 31, California’s General Assembly passed SB 574 by a 75-0 vote (after having...
6/9/2026 5:50:38 PM Catch-1001: How Coordinated Investigations Have Made Congressional Testimony Dangerous By Alexis Loeb This week, two organizations find themselves in a precarious position: compelled to provide sworn public testimony before Congress while...
5/28/2026 12:50:37 AM California’s SB 574: New AI Rules for Lawyers and Arbitrators By Morgan Churma Jeffrey Fisher Across the country, courts, judges, and legislatures are developing a patchwork of rules to address the emerging use of generative...
1/29/2026 8:00:00 PM Antitrust Division Announces First Whistleblower Reward By Alexis Loeb The Antitrust Division just announced a substantial payment to a whistleblower ($1 million) in a case brought in connection with the new...
1/12/2026 10:05:07 PM Antitrust Fights Loom as Companies Seek to Protect Platforms By Alexis Loeb Chris Wheeler Antitrust litigation frequently made headlines in 2025, led by a number of high-profile cases from the government’s monopolization suits...
8/14/2025 7:45:38 PM In Unanimous 'Kousisis' Decision, US Supreme Court Widens Scope for Federal Fraud Prosecutions By Alexis Loeb Two months ago, in Kousisis v. United States, 605 U.S. __ (2025), the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld two fraud convictions after...
6/6/2025 9:47:09 PM Which Party Loses Out When Settlement Funds Are Wired to a “Spoofer” and Not Plaintiff? By Kevin Jones Answer: the “party in the best position to prevent the fraud.” In the digital age, where cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated,...
4/10/2025 1:00:20 PM Texas Case Shows Why Juries Are Well-Suited To COVID Suits By Jeremy Lawrence A pending case in Texas illustrates why COVID-19 business interruption claims need to be decided by juries in light of case-specific...
1/23/2025 1:14:36 AM Sometimes, Insurers Want To Settle! By Jeremy Lawrence This summary of a recently filed complaint illustrates one of the worst-case scenarios an insured defendant can find itself in: getting...
1/14/2025 8:04:38 PM What’s Ahead as Corporate Transparency Act Comes to a Crossroads By Alexis Loeb Cameron Gibbs The recent whiplash regarding the validity of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)—it was enjoined just to particular parties, then...
1/29/2024 6:25:46 PM Major Decision Affects Law of Scraping and Online Data Collection, Meta Platforms v. Bright Data By Alex Reese Raven Quesenberry On January 23, 2024, the court in Meta Platforms Inc. v. Bright Data Ltd., Case No. 3:23-cv-00077-EMC (N.D. Cal.), issued a summary...
10/24/2023 9:43:00 PM Reporting Dispute Claims Within Closely Held Wineries By Amy Briggs Hilary Krase Many wineries operate as closely held companies, meaning they’re owned by an individual or small group of shareholders, who are often...
7/28/2023 7:11:51 PM Compelling Employees to Arbitration Suddenly Has Less of an Upside By Chandra Andrade Kevin Jones Download a PDF of this piece On July 17, the California Supreme Court issued its much-anticipated decision in Adolph v. Uber Techs Inc.,...
7/13/2023 7:40:49 PM Top 5 Privacy Cases To Watch, From Chatbots to Geolocation By Sushila Chanana Litigation — and threats of litigation — related to privacy law violations have been on the rise recently. While some judges have pushed...
1/4/2023 10:36:00 PM SB 54: Shifting the Burden to Producers To Address California's Plastic Pollution By Elizabeth Dorsi Download a PDF of this piece California's SB 54: Plastics Pollution Prevention and Packaging Producer Responsibility Act (Public...