GT Shareholder Mike McCarthy joins co-hosts Adil Khan and Greg Nylen to discuss the compelled speech doctrine's application to commercial speech and how that intersects with product defect omission claims.

Riley Lagesen, GT Shareholder and co-chair of the Restaurant Industry Group, joins co-hosts Gregory Nylen and Adil Khan to discuss recent California legislation focused on transparency in consumer pricing, “junk fees,” and hidden costs, and specifically how these laws could impact restaurants.

GT Shareholder Ed Chansky joins co-hosts Greg Nylen and Adil Khan to discuss current enforcement efforts by the Federal Trade Commission and its focus on “junk” fees, auto-renewal issues, and other “Dark Patterns.” 

GT attorneys and class-action litigators Adil M. Khan and Layal Bishara join hosts Lisa Simonetti and Greg Nylen to discuss the legal risks created by marketing, sustainability reports, and other statements on “ESG”—environmental, social, and governance—issues. The group discusses best practices for marketing as well as litigation strategies for defending against false advertising claims.

In this episode, we discuss whether omissions can provide a basis for a claim under the fraudulent prong of the UCL or the CLRA.

Special guest and arbitrator/mediator Daniel Turner joins us for a discussion of how recent cases, including Supreme Court decisions, have impacted the arbitrability of individual and class claims under PAGA and California’s unfair competition statutes.

In this episode, our guest Dominique “Mike” Hanssens, professor of marketing at UCLA’s business school, discusses how to properly design, conduct and report on consumer surveys for cases involving unfair competition and deceptive advertising.

Here is the link to the Reference Guide on Survey Research by Shari Seidman Diamond: https://doi.org/10.17226/13163.

In this episode, we discuss defense strategies for UCL and FAL claims based on law developed under the federal Lanham Act, and the relationship between those statutes.

In this episode, we discuss the 24 enumerated “wrongs” under the CRLA and procedural quirks.  We also discuss some new decisions.

In this episode, we discuss the purpose and application of the CRLA, along with an overview of remedies.  We also discuss some new decisions.