Novian & Novian, LLP
How we research, write and review what you read here
Our site carries explanations of California law that people rely on when something has already gone wrong. This page sets out who writes that material, who checks it, what we will and will not claim, and how to tell us when we have it wrong.
Who we are
Novian & Novian, LLP is a Los Angeles law firm handling business litigation, employment, intellectual property, real estate, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment and personal injury matters. The attorneys who practise in those areas are listed, with their bar admissions and backgrounds, on our team page.
Everything published here comes from that practice. We write about the questions clients actually bring us, which is why the material leans practical rather than academic.
What this content is for, and what it is not
These pages exist to help someone understand a situation well enough to ask better questions, whether or not they ever call us.
They are not legal advice. Reading them creates no attorney-client relationship, and no article can account for the facts of a particular matter. Where a question turns on timing, deadlines or the specific record, we say so rather than offering a rule of thumb that might not hold.
How we choose what to write about
Topics come from three places, in this order:
- Questions that come up repeatedly in consultations and client calls.
- Changes in California statutes, regulations or case law that alter practical advice we have already published.
- Gaps we find when an existing page answers part of a question and leaves the rest unaddressed.
We do not publish to fill a calendar. A page exists because someone needed the answer.
How a page gets reviewed
Legal content on this site passes through the following stages before publication:
Drafting
Written against primary sources: the statute, the rule, the decision or the agency guidance itself.
Attorney review
Read by an attorney who practises in that area, checking that the law is stated correctly and the framing is fair.
Compliance check
Checked against the advertising rules that govern California attorneys before anything goes live.
Periodic re-reading
Revisited when the underlying law changes, and the page updated or retired accordingly.
What we will and will not claim
California attorneys are bound by rules against false or misleading communications, and we treat those rules as the floor rather than the ceiling.
- We do not guarantee outcomes, and we do not imply that a past result predicts a future one.
- Where we mention a result, we describe it in terms that make clear it turned on its own facts.
- We avoid superlatives about ourselves that a reader has no way to verify.
- Figures, ranges and deadlines are tied to the source they came from, or they do not appear.
Sources and outside links
Where a page relies on a statute, a court rule or an agency publication, we point to the official source so a reader can check it without taking our word for it.
An outside link is a pointer to information, not an endorsement of the organisation behind it, and we do not accept payment for links in our content.
Where AI fits, and where it does not
AI tools may assist with routine editorial work such as outlining, tightening prose or checking readability.
They do not decide what the law says. No page is published on the strength of a machine-generated summary of a statute or a case, and a human attorney reviews the legal substance regardless of how a draft began.
Images and media
The photographs of our attorneys and offices, along with the graphics we produce for these pages, are the property of Novian & Novian, LLP and are protected by copyright.
Journalists, directories and legal publications regularly need an attorney portrait. Rather than make that awkward, we set out the terms here.
To request an image or ask about a use not covered here, use the form on our contact page. Images licensed from third parties are excluded from these terms and remain subject to their own licences.
Corrections
If something on this site is wrong, out of date or unclear, we would rather hear it from you than leave it standing.
Tell us the page and what looks wrong. We check it against the source, correct what needs correcting, and where the change is substantive we note that the page was updated.
Found something that needs fixing?
Send us the page and what you noticed. Corrections and image requests both reach us the same way.
This policy applies to material published on novianlaw.com.
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