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title: 2025 June
url: https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june
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# [2025 June](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june "2025 June")

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Articles in this issue:

## [Pride, prejudice, and the ongoing fight for justice](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/pride-prejudice-and-the-ongoing-fight-for-justice "Pride, prejudice, and the ongoing fight for justice")

There are many reasons to beam with Pride in June, the civil-rights month

[Martin I. Aarons](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/martin-i-aarons "Martin I. Aarons")

## [Stronger together](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/stronger-together-3 "Stronger together")

Pushing forward into summer

[Aaron Hicks](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/aaron-hicks "Aaron Hicks")

## [Advertising, tort reform, and legislation](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/advertising-tort-reform-and-legislation "Advertising, tort reform, and legislation")

A call for self-regulation

[Nancy Peverini](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/nancy-peverini "Nancy Peverini")

## [Hot fun in the summertime](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/hot-fun-in-the-summertime "Hot fun in the summertime")

As the weather heats up, so does the work of Orange County and Los Angeles Trial Lawyers’ Charities

[Megan E. Klein](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/megan-e-klein-2 "Megan E. Klein")
[Michelle M. West](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/michelle-m-west "Michelle M. West")

## [Appellate Reports](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/appellate-reports-55 "Appellate Reports")

Decisions involving legal malpractice, waiver of arbitration, medical malpractice and insurance bad faith

[Jeffrey I. Ehrlich](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/jeffrey-i-ehrlich "Jeffrey I. Ehrlich")

## [To settle or go to trial](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/to-settle-or-go-to-trial "To settle or go to trial")

That is the question

[Stanley K. Jacobs](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/stanley-k-jacobs "Stanley K. Jacobs")

## [Are you sitting on a mob case?](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/are-you-sitting-on-a-mob-case "Are you sitting on a mob case?")

Understanding workplace mobbing might amplify your workplace bullying case

[Nancy B. Valla](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/nancy-b-valla "Nancy B. Valla")

## [Ten years of California’s Equal Pay Act](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/ten-years-of-california-s-equal-pay-act "Ten years of California’s Equal Pay Act")

California’s efforts to overhaul the Equal Pay Act and lessen the pay gap for women and people of color

[Jennifer Kramer](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/jennifer-kramer "Jennifer Kramer")

## [Securing discovery in jail-death cases](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/securing-discovery-in-jail-death-cases "Securing discovery in jail-death cases")

Navigating discovery disputes of in-custody-death cases; case law you’ll need to rely on

[Denisse O. Gastélum](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/denisse-o-gastelum "Denisse O. Gastélum")

## [Using civil-rights law to protect the LGBTQ+ community](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/using-civil-rights-law-to-protect-the-lgbtq-community "Using civil-rights law to protect the LGBTQ+ community")

Despite social progress the LGBTQ+ community continues to be marginalized, the subject of hate crimes and oppression

[Christian Contreras](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/christian-contreras "Christian Contreras")

## [The new California law on peremptory challenges](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/the-new-california-law-on-peremptory-challenges "The new California law on peremptory challenges")

Attempting to address and remedy discriminatory usage of peremptory challenges in jury selection

[Martin I. Aarons](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/martin-i-aarons "Martin I. Aarons")

## [Transitioning at work](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/transitioning-at-work "Transitioning at work")

Lawyers are like shoes – we have to fit well and be comfortable; lessons in supporting our transgender and gender nonconforming clients

[Traci Michelle Hinden-Carey](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/traci-michelle-hinden-carey "Traci Michelle Hinden-Carey")

## [Beyond checkboxes](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/beyond-checkboxes "Beyond checkboxes")

A strategic approach to intersectionality in employment law

[Nicole Meyers](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/nicole-meyers "Nicole Meyers")

## [Comparing Title VII discrimination claims and FEHA claims](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/issues/2025-june/comparing-title-vii-discrimination-claims-and-feha-claims "Comparing Title VII discrimination claims and FEHA claims")

Both prohibit discrimination, but differences include coverage, procedures, remedies, and standards

[Meylin Alfaro](https://www.advocatemagazine.com/authors/meylin-alfaro "Meylin Alfaro")