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With year-end approaching, it is time to start thinking about moves that may help lower your business’s taxes for this year and next. This year’s planning is more challenging than usual due to recent changes made by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 and the potential change in congressional balance of power resulting from the midterm elections.

Arbitration is intended to provide a quick, efficient, confidential, and lower-cost alternative to litigation. In the employment context, an arbitration agreement must provide essential fairness to an employee, so if an employer overreaches in drafting an arbitration agreement, the employer will forfeit the right to arbitrate.

As Valensi Rose celebrates the 70th anniversary of the founding of the firm in 1952, we thought it would be interesting to look back at the events that helped shape our community over these years.

1952 – President Richard Nixon delivers his “Checkers” speech from a Los Angeles television studio, defending himself against allegations of financial improprieties. Cal Tech Prof. A.J. Haagen-Smit explains the origin of smog. The UCLA basketball team has a 16-8 record in its fifth year under Coach John Wooden.

A fundamental benefit a contract is supposed to confer is certainty – if you sign a divorce agreement, its terms will be honored, and if you buy life insurance, you’ll receive the promised death benefits. But what happens if the provisions of two seemingly clear contracts may be in conflict? The likely result is a trip to court, as happened in a recent dispute that was addressed by the California Court of Appeal (Randle v Farmers New World Life Insurance Co.)

Many companies require their employees to agree to arbitrate disputes about working conditions. But what happens if a government agency intervenes on behalf of an employee; is that agency also bound by the arbitration agreement?

An American expat widow living in Mexico learns that she can't serve as the administrator of her husband's probate estate

To serve as a court-appointed administrator of an estate in California, you must be a resident of the United States. But in today’s highly mobile society, facilitated by jet travel, instant communications, virtual meetings, and, for some, second or third homes, what does “resident” really mean?