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    Personal injury and employment litigator Joshua Cohen Slatkin offers advice, analysis, and legal information on a variety of topics in his monthly e-newsletters. Learn about his perspectives on recent news stories, political events, and much more by subscribing here. Josh brings years of courtroom experience, a deep understanding of California and federal law, and a sense of justice to the stories he shares.

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    January 2017 Newsletter: California Legalizes Recreational Marijuana

    Six years after Californians rejected a previous initiative that would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, state voters this time on November 8, 2016, decided to make weed legal and rea

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    December 2016 Newsletter: More Evidence of the Dangers Posed by Climate Change

    American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and social critic Noam Chomsky recently said the most important news of Nov. 8, 2016 (Election Day) was actually “barely noted.” Chomsky w

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    November 2016 Newsletter: Working-Class Whites Propel Trump to Victory

    Hardly anyone saw it coming—except maybe the 59 million-plus voters who elected Donald Trump the 45th President of the United States this month. The questions following the election result

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    October 2016 Newsletter: Colin Kaepernick Gets Americans Talking About Racial Divisions

    The most noteworthy part of a national anthem before a sporting event used to be a great singing performance or a riveting flyover. Colin Kaepernick changed that. All eyes during the anthem are now o

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    September 2016 Newsletter: Supreme Court Changes Mean Your Rights Are at Stake

    At its best, the Court is a place where the least powerful voices in our society are heard and protected, whether they’re African Americans trying to vote or get an education in the era of segregat

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    August 2016 Newsletter: Failure as Part of the Entrepreneur’s Journey

    The newsletter of August will always be about entrepreneurship because that is when I opened up my own law practice three years ago in August 2013. Sara Blakely, the founder of Spanx (a women’s

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    July 2016 Newsletter: Trump’s Candidacy as a Backlash to the Obama Presidency

    This newsletter is an attempt to answer the question: Would we have Trump as the Republican presidential candidate if we didn’t have Barack Obama as our president? I don’t know if anyone can conc

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    June 2016 Newsletter: What Utah v. Strieff Means for Your Fourth Amendment Rights

    In January 2016, I wrote about the canary in the coal mine as it relates to global warming. For this newsletter, I write about who the canary in the coal mine is as it relates to a recent U.S. Suprem

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    June 2015 Newsletter: The Dangers of a Weak Middle Class

    Inequality for All is the title of a documentary film from Robert Reich, the secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Reich emphasizes the importance of investing in people to compete in the

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    May 2016 Newsletter: Robert Reich on Bringing Power Back to the People

    I don’t get into politics much and don’t want to take any sides during the upcoming presidential election, but wanted to share some interesting insights about the “volcanic core of the upcoming

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    January 2016 Newsletter: We Need to Work Together to Stop the Threat of Global Warming

    A canary in a coal mine is an advanced warning of some danger. The metaphor originates from the times when miners used to carry caged canaries while at work. If there was any methane or carbon m

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    December 2015 Newsletter: Is Developing Grit the Key to Success?

    As this year comes to a close, many of us (myself included) set new goals and resolutions for the New Year that are never achieved. So, as we reflect on the past year and plan for the new year ahead,

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    November 2015 Newsletter: Arbitration Clauses Limit Class-Action Rights for Consumers

    The New York Times has written a three-part series of articles over arbitration clauses in an attempt to bring this issue to the forefront of the national consciousness. In recent years, it has becom

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    October 2015 Newsletter: Halloween Candy Is Only Part of Our Nation’s Sugar Epidemic

    Obesity rates in the US have increased at the same rate as gym memberships. Between 1980 and 2000, Americans doubled their fitness club memberships. However, during the same period, their obesity rat

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    September 2015 Newsletter: How Fines and Court Fees Contribute to Inequality

    “Do the crime, pay the fine.” That sounds a little different, right? Many are unaware that when convicted of breaking the law, not only do people “pay” for their crimes by doing time,

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    August 2015 Newsletter: The Reality of Entrepreneurship in America

    "Any time you see a business, somebody once made a courageous decision.” ~ Peter Drucker. Please enjoy my office’s newsletter discussing entrepreneurship. The August newsletter will alway

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    July 2015 Newsletter: Avoiding a DUI Conviction as You Celebrate Our Nation’s Birth

    The July 4th weekend is when we celebrate the adoption of the Declaration of Independence and our nation’s birth. During that celebration, many of us also drink. The cops know this, and they w

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    July 2015 Newsletter: Uncovering Our History of Oil Dependency and Finding a Way Forward

    Please enjoy my office’s newsletter discussing oil dependency, how we got here and what we can do about it. How We Got Here The automobile did not come to dominate American transportation by

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