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As a Los Angeles-based estate planning attorney, I am uneasy about California’s enactment of the Online Notarization Act, which took effect on Jan. 1, 2024. The act and its related statutes authorize remote online notarization or RON by California notaries. RON is the process used when the notary...

As always, the State Legislature had much to say about employers in the state. While the new laws impose expansive obligations on employers, it could have been worse: many onerous laws either did not pass or were not signed by the Governor. Except as indicated below, the new laws become effective...

Saul Ewing’s Casey Grabenstein and Andrew Schwerin write that courts are divided on whether plaintiff bias justifies discovery about litigation funding. They argue litigation funding wouldn’t often create a conflict of interest for a plaintiff.