In Siry Investment, I.P. v. Farkhondehpour, S262081, the California Supreme Court determined that a plaintiff may seek treble ...

By reducing the damages award on due process grounds, the court made clear – despite the plaintiff’s insistence to the contrar...

I would say that 10 years ago women lawyers rarely took time off. Today, women are really considered equal.

On Aug. 15, Kaiser's non-physician, mental-health patient care employees based in Northern California, who are members of Nati...

While splits of authority between Courts of Appeal are rare, splits of authority between divisions of the same Court of Appeal...

Under Senate Bill 1144, California will be doubling down on failed policies that have done nothing to reduce Legionnaires’ Dis...

Often it is helpful to stress the fact that what actually happened in your case – or in any case – doesn’t make any difference...

Ambiguity regarding the nature of the relationship, the scope of the contract attorney’s work, and/or the applicable ethical o...

If signed into law by Gov. Newsom, SB 1162 would expand the state’s pay data reporting and pay transparency requirements by re...

In California, stare decisis extends only to the ratio decidendi of a decision, not to supplementary or explanatory comments i...

Predictably, the widespread use of AI has led to numerous complex legal issues.

Why is it so important to allow these people to pray on government property while on the government payroll? Is there a shorta...

It seems that Congress and various state legislatures are looking at curtailing this expansion of arbitrability, specifically ...

While extremist activity and white supremacy is banned, there are limits on the military’s ability to surveil the activities o...

There are several ways to reduce, defer or eliminate the tax on the sale of your valuable personal residence. The more time yo...

You’ll love the inspiring story of lawyer Randol Schoenberg, the grandson of the great modernist composer Arnold Schoenberg an...

The more you learn about the underlying technology and begin to see the scale for its deployment across industries, the easier...

Under current California law, a woman only has to be present in the state and fleeing from domestic violence in order to seek ...

It is time for California to recognize that clinging to an outdated methodology to license attorneys serves only one purpose: ...

The competing schools include winners of every major national mock trial competition for the last two years, as well as the sc...

A trimmed down rendition of the original $1.75 trillion Build Back Better Act, this legislation introduces significant new tax...

Absent truly ambiguous text, public policy arguments appear to be taking on a diminishing role. Then again, so has stare decisis.

Everything is big in Texas. So the stakes were high. Trinity’s appraiser testified that, before the permit denial, the fair ma...

With the recent filings against California businesses alleging multiple violations of equal employment opportunity laws protec...

Moderna explains this apparent about-face by pointing out that it refrained from asserting its patents earlier so as not to in...

Many Americans failed at mining and began to look at business, farming and ranching as alternatives, but Bay Area and Sacramen...

Arguably among the most satisfying of all bills to discount is your tax bill. You might well acknowledge that you owe the taxe...