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Leslie Booher
Legal Content Specialist at Continuing Education of the Bar (CEB)
Leslie Booher is a legal content specialist for the Real Property and Trusts & Estates team at CEB. She also has experience with exempt entities; business governance and compliance; and pharmaceutical industry law and regulation.
Ms. Booher received a bachelor’s degree in business and MBA from Southeast Missouri State University. She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019.
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Content by Leslie Booher
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Could Large Language Models Audit and Optimize California’s Ever-Growing Body of Law?
May 8, 2026
Leslie Booher
Administrative Law, State & Local Government
California's legal landscape mirrors that of America at large, in that it's grown to be vast in scope and often dense in nature. Practicing lawyers and those working in the regulatory and policy spaces are hyper-specialized to grasp the contours of their particular subject matter areas. Despite paradigm-shifting technological advances in our digital age that theoretically democratize access to information, the barriers to navigating the law remain high, and continue to undergird high fees for legal experts and concerns about who has access to legal remedies.
Second District Clarifies the Boundary Between a Court’s Evidentiary Power and the Right to Present a Defense
April 16, 2026
Leslie Booher
Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Evidence
California's Second District Court of Appeal recently confronted the tension between a court’s discretionary power to exclude under Evidence Code section 352 and a criminal defendant’s constitutional right to mount a complete defense in
What Happens to Frozen Embryos After Divorce? California's Fourth District Adopts 'Contractual Approach' to the Question
December 30, 2025
Leslie Booher
Appellate Law, Family Law, Parentage
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Is 'Packing the House' an Alternative To Prop. 50’s Gerrymandering Proposal?
November 4, 2025
Leslie Booher
Constitutional Law, State & Local Government
This article is being published on an Election Day in California. While it isn’t a presidential, gubernatorial, or congressional election year, voter participation in California is anticipated to be higher than usual for an “off year.” And that activation of voters is being
Copyright Law Clashes With Internet Archive's Online Library in Second Circuit Case
October 23, 2025
Leslie Booher
Intellectual Property, Copyright
E-books from libraries can be accessed by readers, but most borrowers probably don’t know much about the details behind the sometimes lengthy waits for a popular new title. Those waits usually have to do with the access method a library is using -- and the legal terms around how and to how many people they can lend, and at what cost.
Does the Dormant Commerce Clause Apply to the California Cannabis Market?
August 12, 2025
Leslie Booher
Cannabis, Constitutional Law
In June 2025, a panel of the Ninth Circuit heard oral arguments on whether the dormant Commerce Clause should apply to federally illegal cannabis markets, such as California’s. The case tees up a potential split in circuit authority on a thorny constitutional question that could upend state-level legal cannabis markets in California and across the country.
California Insurance Commissioner Investigates State Farm in LA Fire Aftermath
June 24, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Climate Change, Insurance Law, Real Property, Property & Liability Insurance
Following reports of improper handling of claims after the Palisades and Eaton fires in the Los Angeles area earlier this year, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara
California Lawmakers Propose Two New Grant Funds for Climate Resilience and Fire Hardening
May 7, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Climate Change, Insurance Law, Real Property, Property & Liability Insurance
The California Assembly Committee on Insurance recently advanced two pieces of proposed legislation,
California Insurance Commissioner Presses New Bill to Keep State's Insurance Market Afloat After LA Fires
April 9, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Insurance Law, Real Property, Property & Liability Insurance
California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara is sponsoring
CA Insurance Commissioner Approves $1 Billion Assessment for FAIR Plan to Cover SoCal Fire Claims
February 12, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Insurance Law, Real Property
Following last month's catastrophic fires in Southern California, State Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara on Tuesday approved a $1 billion assessment to meet the California FAIR Plan's cash requirements in the coming weeks, as the state's insurer of last resort faces a
How Will California’s FAIR Plan Meet Its Financial Obligation for January's SoCal Wildfires?
February 4, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources
After the
ClimateBrief: How Will California’s FAIR Plan Meet Its Financial Obligation for January's SoCal Wildfires?
February 4, 2025
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Climate Change, Insurance Law
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After Insurance Companies' Exodus From California, State Makes Catastrophe Modeling Available to Home Insurers
December 27, 2024
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources
On December 13, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced the promulgation of new regulations that will allow home insurers in the state to use catastrophe models as part of their rate applications, in exchange for expansion into high wildfire risk areas that have seen decreases in underwriting in recent years. The new rules come after multiple insurance companies have announced plans in the past couple of years to end or reduce new homeowners' policies in the fire-prone Golden State.
ClimateBrief: After Insurance Companies' Exodus From California, State Makes Catastrophe Modeling Available to Home Insurers
December 23, 2024
Leslie Booher
Administrative Law, Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Housing, Climate Change, Insurance Law, Real Property, Property & Liability Insurance
On December 13, California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara announced the promulgation of new regulations that will allow home insurers in the state to use catastrophe models as part of their rate applications, in exchange for expansion into high wildfire risk areas that have seen decreases in underwriting in recent years. The new rules come after multiple insurance companies have announced plans in the past couple of years to end or reduce new homeowners' policies in the fire-prone Golden State.
Controversy Swirls Around Ending 'Judge-Shopping' in Federal Court
November 5, 2024
Leslie Booher
Litigation Practice & Procedure, Venue, Injunctions & Preliminary Remedies
When the federal judiciary was established, one apparent goal was to insulate the dispute resolution branch of government from the political pressure exerted by voters. Article III judges are not elected, and they serve lifetime terms, being removable only via the impeachment process. And this seems generally to have gone according to plan. The Supreme Court, being the highest court in the country, establishes influential law, and its makeup and decisions often come under significant political and public scrutiny -- but, even that is ultimately aimed at the President or Congress who are tasked with filling and organizing the high court. The business of the rest of the judiciary is not typically at the top of our newsfeeds. Yet.
Perspective: Proposition 36 Offers a Solution to a Problem in California. But Is It One Californians Want?
November 1, 2024
Leslie Booher
Cannabis, Criminal Law
And Proposition 47 seems to have delivered on that goal. The Public Policy Institute of California
In Recent Decision, Ninth Circuit Clarifies Its Approach to Stare Decisis on Questions of California Law
July 30, 2024
Leslie Booher
Appellate Law, Litigation Practice & Procedure, Attorney Fees & Costs, Grounds for Recovery of Attorney Fees & Costs
On July 19, the Ninth Circuit issued its opinion in
ICE 'Knock and Talk' Tactic for Immigration Arrests Vacated By California Federal Judge
June 11, 2024
Leslie Booher
Constitutional Law, Immigration Law
Immigration advocates in Southern California should note that a
Federal Government Settles With Arizona Church Conducting DMT Ceremonies
April 29, 2024
Leslie Booher
Cannabis, Criminal Law
State bills involving the class of drugs commonly known as “psychedelics” have been circulating in legislatures across the country with increased frequency in the last five years. California had its own
Ninth Circuit Highlights Importance of Precise Clinical Language When Pursuing Fear-Based Immigration Claims
March 12, 2024
Leslie Booher
Appellate Law, Immigration Law
Asylum and withholding of removal are two grounds on which an immigrant who is removable from the United States may be granted relief from a looming deportation. One means of establishing eligibility for both of these claims is making a showing in immigration court of a fear of persecution in the country of origin based on “membership in a particular social group.” (See
ClimateBrief Perspective: Putting Out the Fire of California’s Burning Property Insurance Market
January 23, 2024
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Insurance Law, Real Property
This article is co-published with ClimateBrief, a forthcoming DailyNews vertical devoted to coverage of climate and environmental law for California practitioners. If you’d like us to keep you updated on ClimateBrief, use
Perspective: Putting Out the Fire of California’s Burning Property Insurance Market
January 23, 2024
Leslie Booher
Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources, Housing, Climate Change, Insurance Law
CEB's ClimateBrief recently
Commentary: Will Treating Opioid Overdose Like Murder Make People Who Use Drugs Safer?
December 5, 2023
Leslie Booher
Cannabis, Criminal Law
Just before Halloween, California Gov. Gavin Newsom
Some Considerations for Legalizing Psychedelics as a Service in California
October 17, 2023
Leslie Booher
Cannabis, State & Local Government
Prior to joining CEB, I spent four years researching and advocating for drug policy reforms, particularly psychedelic reforms, with the research organization MAPS, or the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. So as California Gov. Gavin Newsom closes out the the legislative session with flurries of bill-signing decisions, I quickly noticed that he vetoed
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