An article by Jessica Bromall Sparkman and Rod Berman titled "Inconsistency and Confusion in the Judicial Treatment of Counterfeiting Claims" was published in the May–June 2023 issue of The Trademark...

Meet the Money® is the gateway to hotel finance and investment opportunities. It is now less than one month away. In this interview, Jim Butler speaks about why this conference is is a must-attend...

Stan Gibson, partner and Chair of the Patent Litigation Group with Jeffer Mangels & Mitchell LLP, recently authored an article in The Aesthetic Guide...

Effective January 1, 2026, SB 303 will add a section to the Government Code to address disclosures made during employer-sponsored "bias mitigation or bias elimination training, education, and activities"...

California Labor Code section 1198.5 currently requires employers to maintain and make available to current and former employees personnel records...

A common refrain is that an invention is only as valuable as the patent that protects it.

This weekend I took part in the 4x4x48 challenge created by David Goggins— running 4 miles every 4 hours for 48 hours for a total of 48 miles.

Daniel Freedman, Partner and Co-Chair of the Housing Strategy and Litigation Group at Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP, recently achieved a major success on behalf of real estate developer The Commons MPK, LLC.

Substantial changes to state and local laws governing accessory dwelling units ("ADUs") went into effect on January 1, 2020, and they have significant implications for single-family...

Today at Meet the Money® 2025, Ben Rafter announced that Hotel Equities and Springboard Hospitality formed a strategic merger in which Ben will serve as the new chief executive officer of the combined company...

President Donald Trump has nominated Kathleen M. Sgamma, a 20-year advocate of the oil and gas industry, as the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).

Every passing month seems to bring with it a new set of "market making" events that consistently catapults the deal and debt financing economy in a new direction.

In this patent infringement action, the district court analyzed whether a litigation funding agreement should be produced.

On February 15, 2023, a federal appeals court blocked a California law that prohibited employers from requiring their workers to resolve legal disputes in private arbitration.

At the very least, one can rest assured that demonstrating that a local agency has made a definitive agency decision will remain critical in bringing successful Takings claims.

On December 5, 2023, the Los Angeles City Council removed a contentious measure from the March 2024 ballot which would have required hotels in the city to provide accommodation for homeless...

Bob Braun recently wrote an article for Today's Hotelier on the issues hotel owners should watch for when selling a property with a franchise agreement.

In early July, California Superior Court Judge James P. Arguelles held that the regulations adopted by the California Privacy Protection Agency (the CPPA) on March 29 2023, which implemented key provisions of the California Consumer Privacy Act (the CCPA), could not be enforced until March 2024.

As California continues to reshape its approach to housing policy, two of JMBM's leading attorneys—Daniel Freedman and Matt Hinks—hosted a timely and informative webinar covering the most significant housing laws...

2021 was a challenging year in cybersecurity, and there's no reason to believe that this will end. As we approach 2022, all businesses large and small need to address some basic issues that...