[Lisa and I recently bought a vacation rental property on the Mendocino Coast, which has put us in relationships with a new group of vendors–including some terrible ones. I’m sure many people have bad stories about home warranty programs, so…
In Spring 1984, three candidates ran for Santa Barbara High School’s ASB Vice President position for AY 1984-85, which had primary responsibility for running the student legislature. Rising junior Danielle largely represented the “popular” kids. Rising junior Grant Burrows, a…
[I’m continuing my efforts to clear my backlog of stuck blog post drafts. I completed this interview for a foreign magazine last year, but it never published the interview and may not be in business any more….]: Please tell us…
My daughter & I rewatched the Empire Strikes Back, and I was reminded of so many great lines of dialogue. Here are my favorites. If you had to choose ONLY ONE, which is your favorite? * * * LEIA: I’d…
Today would have been my mom Gail Schlachter’s 80th birthday. To commemorate the occasion, this post recap some of her ongoing legacies. Undoubtedly, mom would have said that her most important legacies are her children (Sandy and me) and four…
[Sometimes blog posts get stuck in draft mode for various reasons. I wrote the draft of this post in 2018…. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯] [Back in 2018,] I put together a Spotify playlist about intellectual property. I keyword-searched for copyright, trademark, patents, publicity…
Bloomberg Law launched an inaugural “Law School Innovation Program” award to recognize “pioneering educational innovations that benefit their students, their schools, and the legal field.” It’s a great honor to report that Santa Clara Law’s Privacy Law Certificate was recognized…
The last time I posted an anticipated travel schedule was 3 years ago, when I had an in-my-dreams travel schedule lined up (Hawaii! Israel! Amsterdam! Bali! Kenya!)–all derailed by the pandemic. I nevertheless flew 20k miles in Q1 2020, with…
I generally avoid the August submission window, but this year, I had two time-sensitive pieces that could not wait until the February window: (1) a co-authored piece with Dean Laura Norris recapping our experience with the Tech Edge JD program…
I did an interview with Newstex, which syndicates my blog content, about my experiences as a content creator: What made you become a content creator? I started practicing law in 1994, at the beginning of the Dot Com boom. As…