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Overview: Jim Porter's Law Review discusses parent's liability for their children's acts whether that be broken contracts or tort damages like injuries caused by the child, even willful acts and vehicle liability -- read up and see if you are responsible for Junior's bad behavior. If your 17-year old accidently shoots someone or crashes the [...]

Overview:  This weeks Law Review highlights Jim Porter’s favorite word ‘knucklehead’ which the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals used to describe a Fresno resident who tested how far his kid’s laser would point by…you guessed it, pointing it at helicopters flying over his apartment, for which he was convicted of a four year prison term [...]

I know I am dating myself, but it was at least 30 years ago, at least, when I stumbled upon these so-called “Construction Definitions.” I have no idea where these came from, but I doctored them up and added a few of my own. While these definitions definitely have a “woe-is-me” whine, they remind us [...]

Overview:  Two of the most successful new companies in the world are about to change their business plans: Uber and Lyft.  The California Labor Commissioner’s office ruled, as did two federal courts in California two months ago, that Uber’s drivers are employees and not independent contractors so entitled to overtime, minimum wages, withholding and reimbursement [...]

Overview:  Jim Porter is a big believer in mediation as a useful, efficient means of alternative dispute resolution, certainly a tool to be tried before arbitration or litigation.  He was certified as a mediator and formed a mediation service before most attorneys even knew what it was.  Read all about it in the Law Review. [...]

Overview:  This weeks Law Review once again encourages readers to sign up to be an organ or tissue donor, thus joining most Americans who have signed on to one of the Registries, like:   www.donateLIFEcalifornia.org or www.organdonor.gov.  Do it, you may save lives. As most of you serious Law Review readers know, every once in awhile [...]

Overview: California is a good place to be if you are a tenant, meaning our Legislature seems to favor tenants, by among other laws, adding special notice requirements for residential leases.  This weeks Law Review highlights some of these unique notices for terminating leases, notices not used by many landlords. Landlords, listen up because many [...]

Overview:  Building part of a garage or home or landscaping or even planting flowers just over the property line on your neighbor’s property is par for the course in the Sierra it seems, our office handles dozens of boundary line encroachment cases.  So it is with interest that this week’s Law Review analyzes Richardson v [...]