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By Wayne Nitti
The Big Four accounting firms – KPMG, Ernst & Young, PriceWaterhouse and Deloitte – have been testing the legal market waters over the past few years, and it’s starting to make Big Law nervous. The accounting firms, which are currently restricted by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and state bar rules to provide domestic clients with legal services, have been growing their legal services divisions [...]

By Wayne Nitti
California is a few months away from implementing a new data privacy law that will upend the way companies do business in the state. The California Consumer Privacy Act is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020 and will be the most far-reaching data privacy law in the country. Under the CCPA, consumers are in control of their personal data – they can decide how and whether businesses [...]

By Wayne Nitti
Last year, Governor Brown signed a game-changing amendment to the California International Arbitration and Conciliation Act, which now permits non-Californian and foreign attorneys to represent parties in international commercial arbitrations and dispute resolutions within the borders of California. This legislation was welcome news not only for attorneys, but for [...]

By Wayne Nitti
Most of the time, attorneys who come to our site to set up a new case or arrange for e-service and e-filing quickly master its navigation. Whether they’re acting on an agreement among counsel or pursuant to an order issued by a judge or arbitrator, lawyers typically find that the user prompts and menu choices in our online platform provide everything they need to get started. Our case-oriented [...]