OVERVIEW California homeowners, including those who live in associations governed by homeowners’ associations (HOAs), are protected against discrimination, retaliation, and harassment by their HOAs under the federal Fair Housing Act (FHA) and California’s Fair...
TOP 20 THINGS TO REMEMBER BEFORE YOUR DEPOSITION OVERVIEW Depositions play an indispensable role in civil litigation. Simply put, a deposition is the questioning of a witness under oath, in the presence of a court reporter, who is trained to take down every word of...
CALIFORNIA’S ELDER ABUSE STATUTE: RECENT VICTORY AND ENFORCEMENT INSIGHTS MBK CHAPMAN ATTORNEY VICTORIOUS IN PROTECTING A SENIOR CITIZEN’S RIGHTS UNDER CALIFORNIA’S ELDER ABUSE STATUTE On September 5, 2023, a Long Beach jury ordered Ken Allen Lamphear, a...
CALIFORNIA HOMEOWNER AND CONTRACTOR DISPUTES OVERVIEW A dispute with a contractor can turn into a nightmare for a homeowner. In fact, most homeowners are familiar with the horror stories surrounding shoddy workmanship, project abandonment, and outright fraud...
COMMON CIVIL LITIGATION TERMS AND PHRASES USED IN CALIFORNIA Throughout the litigation process, you’re bound to run into a variety of terms and phrases that you’ve never heard before, or that you may have heard, but don’t really understand. This article seeks to...
THE ABC’S OF CIVIL LITIGATION IN CALIFORNIA OVERVIEW Often, when people hear the word “litigation,” they tend to picture a courtroom—with a judge, jury, lawyers, and witnesses all playing their parts. And there’s nothing wrong with that picture. Trials are, after all,...
