Bad Faith Insurance Claims: The Basics
If you believe your insurance company has acted in “bad faith” it may be helpful to know a few basic things. Here is some information to help you out:
Internet-Based Marketing Programs: Be Selective
By Jennifer Gilman
On May 10, 2018, the California Supreme Court approved a comprehensive set of New Rules of Professional Conduct (New Rules) for California lawyers, which take effect November 1, 2018. Many attorneys are contemplating what the New Rules will mean for them in their everyday practice. In his article “What New Rules? I Barely Know the Old Ones,” Ed McIntyre discussed some of the key changes and highlighted areas where the practice of litigation will see significant changes.
Self-Care for Lawyers: The Benefits of Building One Self-Care Habit at a Time
By Rick Waite
The big changes started about 10 years ago, when I started surfing every day at 6 a.m. instead of getting on the freeway to go to work. Soon I started journaling every day, a practice I started at Harvard my freshman year and engaged in sporadically over the years, usually during times of crisis. Next, I began meditating again. I had learned how to meditate at the Cambridge Transcendental Meditation Center my freshman year and then promptly stopped. A few days after renewing my meditation practice, I quit drinking. Cold turkey. No cravings. No 12-step program. I just stopped.
Some Lessons on Flying Solo
By Matthew Lab
For most attorneys, the thought of opening a solo practice is exciting, liberating and terrifying at the same time. Since its inception in 2012 as the first attorney incubator on the West Coast, California Western School of Law’s Access to Law Initiative (ALI), has been privileged to provide support, tools and training to empower entrepreneurial and public service-minded attorneys to launch and develop their law practices. ALI encourages its attorneys to include “make-a-difference-law” as a component of their law practices through the provision of pro bono and/or “low bono” legal services to modest means clients.
California Legislature Reacts to Supreme Court’s Blow Against Unions
By Jason Fischbein and Joss Teal
On June 27, 2018, the United States Supreme Court issued perhaps the most significant decision to impact collective bargaining this century in Janus v. American Federation of State, City, and Municipal Employees, Council 31 (AFSCME).1
