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News & Analysis
Latest legal news and recent law changes.

News & Analysis

The Burton Law Firm analyzes recent legal news and emerging trends

Duty to Indemnify Employees: Consequence not Cause

California has required employers to “indemnify” employees for “necessary expenditures or losses incurred by the employee in direct consequence of the discharge of his or her duties, or of his or her obedience to the directions of the employer” in substantially the same terms since 1937 under Labor Code § 2802.

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California’s War on INGs

We live in an age of unparalleled mobility in a world of many differing taxes and taxation structures. Yet permanently changing one’s residence is not a decision lightly made.

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A Will without a Witness

Normally, a typed (nonholographic) will must be signed by at least two persons who witnessed the testator’s signature of the will or the testator’s acknowledgment of the document as the testator’s will.

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