Achieving the long-sought jurisprudential objective of eliminating the dormant Commerce Clause would enable California, with i...

At its simplest formulation, the duty of loyalty is focused predominantly on conflicts of interest.

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that one in six people aged 60 years and older experiences some form of abuse in...

The Contract Clause analysis was interesting because such challenges have traditionally faced upstream battles. Here, however,...

Marshall’s most famous case arose in 1947 when a former babysitter for the Marshall family, Andrea Perez, and her fiancé Sylve...

For example, coverage for such claims under a CGL policy is unlikely because an insured’s false representation or false advert...

In The Color of Wealth in Los Angeles report, it was estimated that Black Americans in Los Angeles have a median wealth of $4,...

Erin and I made the decision to delay having children and then found it very difficult to conceive. Once we conceived, our wor...

The Supreme Court will again review prosecutors’ attempts to utilize the federal wire and honest services fraud statutes to ex...

The possibility that the IRS can audit forever is chilling. The potential for large civil penalties and perhaps even criminal ...

The Chief Justice is telling us, I think, that the issue in the case is not simply whether, in ordinary parlance, bumble bees ...

The primary difference between SB 62 and the similar legislative reform efforts that came before it is the law’s dramatic expa...

The fear that suddenly an armed IRS force combing through neighborhoods to collect taxes is completely unfounded, as the IRS C...

Marketing SB 1304 as a public safety measure is wrong. The reasons for criminal behavior are complicated and driven by a varie...

Even with planning, the estates of artists and other creators can present complex valuation problems because of the unique nat...

Which interest(s) – and hence which rule – will prevail? When our Supreme Court takes up the question, as it just did in Dezi ...

Sadly, observing the plethora of legal advertising, publicity-seeking irresponsible comments, and a general reckless casting p...

Mobile carriers’ dubious handling of personal data, particularly geolocation data collected from customers, has been well know...

Economically, such cases were near impossible to file due to the MICRA cap. However, given the new changes in MICRA's Civil Co...

It is always recommended that immigration attorneys take preemptive measures to make sure their foreign clients are prepared f...

Fortunately, there are tools that employment lawyers can use to help their clients diagnose and address conflict in the workpl...

Although it may take some time to fully implement and require adjustment by the various stakeholders, this system is sure to b...

Lawyers may be concerned about the impact this change will have on already heavily congested judicial calendars. The court, ho...

The plan will allow for a return of Civil courtrooms to our different local communities around our vast county – as was the sy...

When a public school even inadvertently forces a student to choose between their family's beliefs, religious or otherwise, and...

While it generally takes a few years for law firms to trust junior associates with taking depositions or drafting briefs for t...

Though the concept of trust is amorphous, successful mediators recognize that trust is vital to the process.

The bill was passed as an urgency measure so it goes into effect immediately. This guarantees that the bar cannot precipitousl...

A protective order should only be renewed “if, and only if, it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the protected par...

Courts have never held that the Fourteenth Amendment bars any consideration of race in map drawing. The only constitutional li...