On Oct. 4, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 390 into law, which amends California’s existing law on automatic subscripti...

When Assembly Bill 5 — the so-called “gig worker law” — was enacted at the end of 2019, it appeared that California lawmakers ...

The tax treatment of lawsuit settlements can depend on the wording of the settlement agreement. For example, Debra Jean Blum r...

The State Bar’s paraprofessional program is unlikely to minimize the justice gap and will result in individuals with insuffici...

If the pandemic has had any kind of benefit, it’s that it has raised awareness of the functions and dysfunctions of our courts...

While the iconic comic strip character Dick Tracy took great pleasure in informing the villains he nabbed that “crime doesn’t ...

In a deeply divided Washington, one thing politicians agree on is that cyber crime is a dark and deepening problem. A new repo...

Attorneys, jurists, and others throughout the legal profession need to make sure they are cognizant of what is happening withi...

Footnote 7 of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Facebook v. Duguid undermines the “human intervention” standard that was the forme...

I would like to thank Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of UC Berkeley School of law for his Oct. 12 column, “There is no such thing as v...

A review of Justice Stephen Breyer’s “The Authority of the Courts and the Peril of Politics.”

Given that one out of two marriages ends in divorce (and the absence of any evidence that premarital agreements make divorce l...

The Oct. 19 column by James A. Gorton and William L. Winslow, “Evidence to support use of paraprofessionals is missing,” conta...

On Oct. 5, the court struck down Assembly Bill 32, California’s ban on private prisons and detention facilities.

The following the first installment of a story in four parts, the next three to run Nov. 1, Nov. 15 and Dec. 6. It is adapted ...

In a new book, “Darrow’s Nightmare: Los Angeles 1911-1913,” Nelson Johnson uses trial transcripts, newspaper accounts and othe...

Among all of the reports and analysis commissioned by the State Bar, there is no empirical justification for the proposition t...

The Native American Voting Rights Act seeks to address ongoing barriers that Native Americans face when voting and preempt or ...

The Washington Department of Ecology allows public employee union representatives to communicate with workers in the building’...

The ordinance states that, beginning Thursday, a covered location must display “prominently on its premises” a notification ad...

A few issues to consider when an employee requests a religious exemption from a vaccination mandate.

In recent union actions, the vote was not simply about worker pay. With a record number of job openings nationwide and more em...

Those who may be opposed to licensing paraprofessionals opine that the failure of these new entrants may negatively impact pub...

A primer on Penal Code Section 1001.36, enacted in 2018, which permits a court to order pretrial diversion for clients with ce...

The recent $137 million jury verdict against Tesla in a racial discrimination case brought by Owen Diaz, a former African-Amer...

A California jury last month handed down what has been reported to be the first antitrust jury verdict involving the cannabis ...

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee issued an interim staff report on the use of the DOJ by Donald Trump and his allies.

In August, a trial court in Alameda County invalidated Proposition 22 — a statutory voter initiative that classified many app-...

A pair of 9th Circuit cases will examine what the Constitution requires Congress to do when confronted with the present-day ef...

There are a veritable plethora of computer-based natural language processing systems these days, such as the widely popular Al...