On Jan. 19, the 58th director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, stepped down from his post, the day befor...

I write to address comments by three appellate specialists in the Daily Journal’s January 29 article, “Complaint against 3rd D...

The California Supreme Court recently ruled that the "ABC test" applied Dynamex is retroactive.

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In 2020 California courts rendered a number of significant decisions regarding insurance.

The California Courts of Appeal handed down two recent decisions which will have important impacts on the admissibility and sc...

Assume that the person you are listening to knows something you don’t.

In a welcome reprieve the night before the inauguration, opportunity zone investors now have more time to invest their gains.

Two recent decisions of the California Court of Appeal reached different conclusions on arbitrability.

Last July, the U.S. Supreme Court said, in essence, that the president is not above the law.

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There is a great deal of angst about personal digital identity and how to best legally provide a means for the public to mitig...

On President Joe Biden’s first day of office, he sent landmark comprehensive immigration reform legislation to Congress.

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Where an employee of a company commits an intentional act, such as a battery or sexual molestation, the managers of that compa...

Civility is essential in our profession, but I disagree that it is decreasing in our profession.

Former district attorney administrations often did not pursue third strike prosecutions where the current offense was not that...

About the only thing we can seem to collectively agree on when it comes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is th...

A new California law regulates public officials’ use of social media platforms.

Most people — even those who know very little about taxes — are likely to say that a stream of royalties is probably taxed as ...

With so much going on, you may have missed the release of the 9th Circuit’s updated rules, which took effect on Dec. 1, 2020.

In this article and accompanying self-study test, readers will learn about trial procedures in eminent domain cases.

On President Joe Biden’s first day in office, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would stop adding people t...

For 20 years I have been an individual calendar judge in Department 15 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse.

There is not a one-size-fits-all direction and there are several key distinctions between the two types of going public option...

In an evolving series of cases, restrictions on “nonessential” activities, including worship, have compelled the U.S. Supreme ...

After following a straight line for a few decades, the law in California regarding the proper classification of workers as eit...

Any argument that such behavior is excused by a lawyer’s duty to zealously advocate for his or her client must fall on deaf ea...

Employers are likely to begin settling claims they would once have litigated, and employees — who once would have held out for...