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  • As housing was perhaps the single largest subject of legislative activity in the last year, YLR returns to discuss landlord tenant law, the first installment for Spring 2024.YLR Host Jeff Hayden is joined by landlord-tenant attorneys extraordinary: Jessica Chylik and Sal Timpano of San Francisco and David Finkelstein of San Mateo. As always, we take your calls and answer your questions.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • It's all in good fun. Except when it's not. We plan to give you some guidance, so if you are experimenting in this area, you are not at risk for emotional and physical damage or even criminal prosecution.Want to learn some boundaries before the Folsom Street Fair? You've come to the right place.YLR Host Jeff Hayden and tonight's co-host, Emmy-nominated legal and political analyst Dean Johnson, are joined by Dr. Anna Randall, Dr. Richard Sprout and Susan Wright.As this is an encore broadcast, we are not accepting calls into the broadcast tonight. But we welcome your calls to support this station at (800) 525-9917. The only way this station can stay on the air, is listeners. Listeners just like you. To keep this station going, to keep our live stream available for yourself, to keep shows like Your Legal Rights on the air, please make your donation to KALW, today, at KALW.org. Thank you.Next week, we'll be back, live, with our Landlord-Tenant Broadcast.
  • We’ll hear from a panel of experts about what should be done in San Francisco to address drug addiction and prevent more loss of life from accidental overdoses.
  • Your Legal Rights
    Whether the guy who jumps from behind the fence and scares your kids, the guy who tears down your decorations and threatens your life, or the lady who calls the police when your kids walk by just going to the park, many of us have had difficult neighbors at one time or another.What are some of the tools you can use? Does the city, or do the police, have a role? When should you go it alone? Might you get an attorney?Tonight on Your Legal Rights, YLR host, Jeff Hayden, is joined by Municipal Attorney Lance Bayer and East Bay attorney Nabiel Ahmed, who helps his clients obtain or resist restraining orders.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call us, toll-free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • The new ordinance makes it illegal for homeless people in unincorporated areas of the county to live outside if they have refused offers to move indoors.
  • Your Legal Rights
    As housing was perhaps the single largest subject of legislative activity in the last year, YLR returns to discuss landlord tenant law, the first installment for 2024.YLR Host Jeff Hayden is joined by landlord-tenant attorneys Jessica Chylik of San Francisco and David Finkelstein of San Mateo. As always, we take your calls and answer your questions.
  • Your Legal Rights
    As with each of the last few years, the 2023 legislative season brought the passage of many bills, directly affecting employers and employees throughout California.Tonight, on Your Legal Rights, with participation and assistance of the Labor and Employment Law Section of the California Lawyers Association, we’re talking about the evolving world of Labor and Employment Law.YLR host, Jeff Hayden is joined by Thomas Lenz, a partner at Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo in Pasadena, Ca, and Beth W. Mora of Mora Employment are all here to help. Questions for Jeff and his guests, please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • Once effective at curbing gun violence, Oakland's Ceasefire program has been gutted, new audit shows.
  • Your Legal Rights
    Tonight we are going to talk about crime. This time, good news, as a local city has had a tremendous turnaround that offers hope for other cities.During the 1990s, the Bay Area City of East Palo Alto was overrun by crime, poverty, and drugs, having the highest per capita murder rate in the known world. Last year, the homicide rate was zero.Should we stop at celebrating; or, are there lessons learned that can benefit other locales?Joining YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, and tonight's co-host, Dean Johnson, is the Mayor of East Palo Alto, Antonio Lopez. Questions for Jeff, Dean and their guest? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • Your Legal Rights
    A movement afoot to use cameras to analyze speed has just become law; will this really slow us down? I got a red-light ticket. Is there anything I can do? The red lights came on behind me. What happens next? Can I do anything? Anything I absolutely should not do? Does the officer have to tell me why I was pulled over? Why what I do in the next few moments can really make a difference.Joining YLR Host Jeff Hayden is San Francisco David Uthman, a retired peace officer, currently practicing law at the Law Offices of David Uthman and the San Francisco Traffic Law Clinic.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • Your Legal Rights
    The legal system is predicated on clients knowing they can count on their attorneys. But, when there are all sorts of lawyers charging all sorts of fees, how do you know the legal fees you are paying are appropriate?Attorneys typically care about their client and advocate what their clients want this shouldn't come at the cost of bankrupting them or depleting their savings.Tonight, on your legal rights, we will focus on tips for being a smart consumer of legal services.Joining YLR Host, Jeff Hayden, are Redwood City attorneys Emily Andrews and Kenneth Linthicum, incoming Vice-President of the San Mateo County Bar Association.Questions for Jeff and his guests? Please call, toll free, at (866) 798-8255.
  • So how did we get here and where do we go from here? In the first episode, we heard from Hussein Ibish and Rashid Khalidi. In the second episode, we hear from William Zartman, a professor emeritus at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C.