DON’T RECORD CELL OR CORDLESS COMMUNICATIONS WITHOUT CONSENT         Smith v. LoanMe, Inc. (2021) 11 Cal.5th 183, which holds that no party or nonparty can intentionally record a covered telephone communication without consent, impacts all aspects of the legal system, criminal and civil, because recording phone calls occurs in all aspects of life. As an added benefit, LoanMe also provides an in-depth tutorial on how to interpret a statute.        The issue in LoanMe was whether  Penal Code section 632.7 applies to all parties to a communication transmitted between a cellular or cordless telephone and another telephone, prohibiting those parties from recording the communication without the consent of all participants, or whether that…