Any legislation creating a federal privacy statute should include requirements that defendants must automatically disclose all...

What do former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and UC Hastings College of the Law have in common? Not much, except the fact that the N...

Some courts have been unreceptive to finding coverage for “spoofing” because an insured’s acting on or treating as genuine a f...

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling from last week is wrong on the law and sets a dangerous precedent that will make it much harde...

This is the story of a California couple caught in the cross-hairs of environmental bureaucracy bent on revenge for the crime ...

All litigants must have their day in court through a full and fair hearing. To ensure justice is done, each party should be af...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may soon require companies to disclose climate-related risks and opportunities — w...

When California lawmakers passed legislation on February 7 to provide workers with a new round of COVID-19 supplemental paid s...

Two Los Angeles pedestrians, in different areas of the city, are confronted with a homeless encampment blocking their way. The...

We’ve had two pretty strange years, but like most of the rest of us, the IRS is trying to get back to normal. When it comes to...

With the Omicron variant moving through California workplaces at an alarming rate, employers have been scrambling to keep full...

We certainly need healing, but wouldn’t it be prudent to wait until all the evidence is presented and reviewed before publicly...

Matt Graham, recently retired from the California Court of Appeal, brings us an unexpected, ribald and raunchy, but soulful an...

We live in a time when greater and greater claims are being made for the world of simulated things. If I find my 17-year-old d...

The CAA requires a proposed arbitrator to provide a disclosure statement identifying issues that could raise impartiality ques...

The San Jose City Council recently enacted two firearm ordinances that impose significant new obligations on San Jose’s roughl...

Suppose you are a junior associate in a large law firm, serving as “second chair” on a complex litigation case or transactiona...

As the mess surrounding the fall of infamous plaintiffs’ attorney Thomas V. Girardi has unfolded, we have learned more about t...

It appears that at least in part, an increasing number of Americans are shifting away from a live-to-work mindset toward the w...

Fights between owners and contractors under Business and Professions Code Section 7031 can get nasty and detailed. An owner’s ...

At any time, empowered by the Legislature’s giving the administrative agency the power to “adopt, amend, and repeal such rules...

After nearly five months in trial, almost four of which were conducted remotely through Zoom, the San Bernardino jury in the R...

Whether through legislative action or court decision, the outcome of a recent appellate decision must be reversed. There is no...

While the U.S. government has made some recognition of its of policy regarding China, it’s important to ask whether corporate ...

While cases often get resolved through various means before trial, the goal of my work is to get ready for trial, go to trial,...

My last column began to explore how a story changes as it moves from the initial client interview through our litigation system.

A newly enacted package of public safety measures, including Senate Bill 16, clarifies and expands laws requiring the disclosu...

Rather than self-interested public figures, who better than “We, the People of the State of California” (Cal. Const. Preamble)...

This new law gives the military a direct tool for dealing with sexual harassment and since a sentence could carry possible ja...

Why watch? Celebrate Lincoln’s birth month by streaming a movie that depicts the young Abe as a crafty trial lawyer and sugges...