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WT Wins: Yolo County Superior Court Denies Pre-Death Trust Contest Petition In Favor of Weintraub’s Trustee Client

Published: May 10, 2022

Edward J. Corey, Jr. and Daniel C. Kim prevailed in a 9-day trial before the Yolo County Superior Court relating to a pre-death trust contest.

The Petitioner, son of the trust settlors, claimed that his parents lacked sufficient capacity and/or were unduly influenced in making changes to their trust in 2018 that removed him as a beneficiary of the family’s farming businesses. Based on the evidence presented at trial, the court found that Petitioner had failed to meet his evidentiary burden of proof on both claims and ruled in favor of Weintraub’s client, the current trustee.

 

California Employment News: How to Comply With and Use Employee Record Requests to Your Advantage

Published: May 10, 2022

by Lukas Clary, Meagan D. Bainbridge
The Labor & Employment Law Blog

In this episode of California Employment News, Lukas Clary and Meagan Bainbridge discuss steps that employers can take to comply with employee records requests, while also mitigating the risk of potential workplace violation claims.

Watch this episode on the Weintraub YouTube channel, here.

Listen to this podcast episode here.

Can Copyright Law Prevent Cheating on Exams?

Published: May 5, 2022

by Jo Dale Carothers, Ph.D.
The IP Law Blog

The recent opportunities for remote work and learning have provided improvements in lifestyle for a number of employees and students. Many of those able to work or study from home have benefited from more flexible schedules, reduction in time and money spent on commuting, reduction in work- and school-related stress, and more family time. But those benefits have come with some new challenges. For example, professors and teachers have confronted the challenge of how to prevent students from cheating on exams. When standard approaches failed, a business professor recently turned to copyright law, hoping for a solution.

WT Deals: Hollywood Gang to Co-Produce Docuseries About Chef Nobu Matsuhisa

Published: May 3, 2022

Weintraub Client Hollywood Gang Productions is set to co-produce a docuseries about the world-renowned chef Nobu Matsuhisa.

The four-part docuseries titled “Nobu” will showcase the chef’s rise to fame and his unlikely path to success. AGC Television, Hollywood Gang, and Altimeter will co-produce, and the series will be directed by Matt Tyrnauer. Gianni Nunnari of Hollywood Gang is an executive producer, along with Tyrnauer, Corey Reeser (Altimeter), Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz, and BJ Levin of AGC. Reeser is serving as showrunner.

Hollywood Gang Productions and AGC TV are represented by Weintraub Attorney Alan Grodin, who facilitated the introduction of AGC to Hollywood Gang.

Read the full article on Variety, here.

Weintraub Tobin Welcomes Aysha Majeed

Published: April 29, 2022

Weintraub is pleased to welcome Aysha Majeed as an associate in the Firm’s Healthcare and Corporate practice groups. Her practice focuses on serving healthcare-related clients as they navigate rules and requirements as well as agreements and other ventures.

The Continuing Battle Over LinkedIn Profiles and the Applicability of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act

Published: April 28, 2022

by James Kachmar
The IP Law Blog

Over two and a half years ago, this column analyzed a Ninth Circuit case titled HiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corporation, in which the Court agreed with a lower court that had issued a preliminary injunction against LinkedIn from taking certain technical measures to prevent HiQ, a data analytics company, from “scraping” information from publicly available profiles on LinkedIn’s site. The Ninth Circuit concluded then that HiQ was not violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (“CFAA”) because its activities were directed at publicly available information and therefore, it was not accessing LinkedIn’s computer systems either without authorization or in excess of such authorization as required to establish liability under the CFAA.