BWO Partner Ken White Launches First Amendment Podcast “Make No Law”
Brown White & Osborn LLP partner Ken White, a First Amendment litigator, has launched a monthly podcast on the Legal Talk Network. The podcast, called “Make No Law”, explores the background and...
View ArticleBWO Partner Ken White Published In Reason Magazine
BWO Partner Ken White, who is a Contributing Editor at Reason Magazine, has a new article published there explaining the perils of voluntary discussions with federal investigators.
View ArticleBWO Partner Ken White On Fox News @ Night Regarding Special Counsel...
BWO Partner Ken White appeared on Fox News @ Night With Shannon Bream last week to discuss why targets of investigations – in this case, the President of the United States – should be extremely wary of...
View ArticleBWO Partner Ken White On The FBI Search of Michael Cohen’s Office
This week BWO partner Ken White, whose practice includes federal criminal defense, spoke extensively about the FBI search of the offices of President Trump’s attorney Michael Cohen. Mr. White had a...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court Resolves A Split In Circuits, Holding That SEC...
After several years and many challenges, the Supreme Court has finally decided that Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) administrative law judges (“ALJs”) are “inferior officers” who exercise...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Majority in Lucia Makes For Strange Bedfellows
The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Lucia v. SEC hardly came as a surprise. Sure, it invalidated a decades-old process for appointing SEC administrative law judges (“ALJs”), a rare occurrence, the...
View ArticleCakes, Discrimination, and First Amendment Rights
“Baker, baker baking a cake make me a day … Maybe we could change his mind …There must be something here …” Tori Amos (“Baker baker”) The United States Supreme Court in a 7 to 2 decision reversed a...
View ArticleThe Supreme Court’s Term Has An Epic Impact On Employment Litigation
On Monday, May 21, 2018, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis (“Epic”). In a 5- 4 decision, the Court held that class or collective action waivers contained in...
View ArticleExecutive Order On Administrative Law Judges Not As Alarming In Context
On July 10, 2018, President Trump issued an executive order exempting federal administrative law judges (“ALJs”) from the competitive service, or civil service system. This was in response to the...
View ArticleBWO Partner Caleb Mason On Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh
BWO Partner Caleb Mason has published an essay on how Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh may handle criminal procedure issues: “On Criminal Justice, Kavanaugh Might Be More Centrist than Kennedy.”
View ArticleBWO Partner Ken White On “All The President’s Lawyers”
KCRW — which produces the popular weekly political news show “Left Right and Center” — has launched a popular new podcast “All The President’s Lawyers,” co-hosted by BWO partner Ken White. Every week,...
View ArticleBrown White & Osborn LLP Prevails: Los Angeles Jury Finds Edward Biggs Liable...
P R E S S R E L E A S E LOS ANGELES JURY FINDS EDWARD BIGGS LIABLE FOR $8.9 MILLION FOR FRAUD INVOLVING OWNERS OF THREE MANUFACTURED HOMES IN HIS PACIFIC PALISADES MOBILE HOME PARK Los Angeles, CA,...
View ArticleHe’s Baaaaaaaack .. Raymond J. Lucia Returns To Challenge SEC
Raymond J. Lucia, who in 2017 challenged the constitutionality of the SEC’s process for appointing administrative law judges (“ALJs”), a challenge the Supreme Court ruled in his favor earlier this...
View ArticleMedia Round-Up
Brown White & Osborn LLP partner Ken White wrote several columns, and appeared on several news programs, based on his expertise with federal criminal law in the past week: “Three Remarkable...
View ArticleTaking A Punch
What do you get when you combine a celebrity boxing champ, a popular DJ and an executive who rents out exotic cars? If images of a lime green Lamborghini and diamond-encrusted platinum bling come to...
View ArticleMediation Confidentiality Rules Amended
As most lawyers know, mediation proceedings are confidential, and California statutes govern their confidentiality. (See Cal. Evid. Code, §§ 703.5, 1115-1128.) Some lawyers, however, may not be...
View ArticleChanges to Federal Family Medical Leave and Paid Sick Leave in the Wake of...
Most employers are familiar with the Family and Medical Leave Act (the “FMLA”), 29 U.S.C. § 2601, et seq.. Pursuant to FMLA, an eligible employee is entitled to take unpaid leave for up to 12 weeks...
View ArticleContinuity of Government During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Brown White & Osborn LLP partner Ken White was a guest on the National Constitution Center’s podcast “We The People,” which addressed continuity of government during the pandemic and how various...
View ArticleAll I Want To Do Is Zoom-a-Zoom-Zoom-Zoom, Carefully: Confidentiality and...
In the last two weeks, Zoom has abruptly rescued many of us from social isolation by providing a relatively easy to use web-based video platform that facilitates digital face-to-face interaction.[1]...
View ArticleWhat if the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Causes Breach of a Contract? Consider...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has rapidly evolved into a national crisis, and the country’s economy is scrambling to keep up. As more states ramp up restrictions to counter the looming threat,...
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