On this week’s episode, labor and employment attorney Anne Dwyer discusses the California Supreme Court’s recent decision in Ferra v. Loews Hollywood Hotel, LLC and how it affects meal and rest break premiums for employees.

This week on CalCurrent, Los Angeles commercial litigation partner Keith Gregory discusses best practices for protecting trade secrets and how confidentiality agreements may not always be enough.

On this episode, patent attorney, Jeff Morton, discusses the nuances of five common patent applications that are prevalent in U.S. patent practice and general usage of each. This episode covers provisional applications, non-provisional applications, divisional applications, continuation applications, and continuation-in-part (CIP) applications.

On this episode, regulatory healthcare partner Paul Giancola discusses healthcare fraud, outlining the fraud and abuse laws that apply to federal healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid.

This week on CalCurrent, join Phoenix partners Andrew Jacobs and Greg Marshall as they discuss the U.S. Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez and its possible effects on the future of class action cases.

This week on CalCurrent, Heidi McNeil Staudenmaier, a partner in Snell & Wilmer’s Native American Services Group, discusses the United States Supreme Court’s landmark decision in United States v. Cooley and how the decision solidifies the inherent sovereign power of Tribes.

On June 17, more than a month after the CDC announced that fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a face covering or practice social distancing in most workplaces, California updated its workplace safety rules when the California Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (OSHAB) passed a revised Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS). Join OSHA attorney Kevin Brown on this episode as he outlines the revised workplace standards and highlights the potential pitfalls.

This week on CalCurrent, business litigation partner Elizabeth Weldon discusses how, with increased planning and strategizing, California franchisors may avoid three common pitfalls of franchise relationship events.

This week on CalCurrent, Orange County Commercial Finance Attorney Joshua Partington discusses how evolving technology has made Remote Online Notarization (RON) a reality. As the Securing and Enabling Commerce Using Remote and Electronic (SECURE) Notarization Act of 2021 continues to move through the approval process and with at least 34 states enacting statutes allowing RON as of May 2021, the call for a national standard seems to be growing.

On this episode of CalCurrent, co-founders Steffi Hafen and Jeff Morton celebrate the 50th episode. They review CalCurrent’s evolution into a weekly go-to resource for navigating the California legal landscape and provide a legal update on a recent tax court case with significance in the areas of tax and intellectual property.