Trade secret and patent litigation are tools to protect inventions. Many businesses have invested heavily in building patent p...

California’s privacy landscape has continued to evolve since 2018, and this year is turning out to be no exception.

The bill codifies an employer’s reporting requirements in the event of COVID-19 infections at the workplace and clarifies Cal/...

This ballot measure is the latest phase in an epic battle between advocates for workers’ rights, who believe everyone deserve...

Consider the case of the recent find by a 33-year-old Arkansas man, who found a massive 9-carat diamond in a public state park...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order asking the California Legislature to end the issuance of new hydrauli...

On Sept. 18, Gov. Gavin Newsom approved Senate Bill 1146, codifying current COVID-19 Emergency Rules of Court 11 and 12 as Cal...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused states to impose unprecedented restrictions on their citizens, leading to a perhaps equally u...

New guidance from the U.S. Department of Labor might seem like an outright gift to Uber and Lyft.

On Sept. 29, U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan held a hearing in United States v. Flynn. The hearing follows an 8-2 decision ...

In Johnson v. The Raytheon Company, Inc., a false alarm investigated by maintenance engineering staff led to a Privette doctri...

This column will attempt to prove that you, California lawyer, do indeed know more German than you may think.

Significant infusions of government resources into the private sector during the COVID-19 pandemic have prompted focus on a ne...

George Gascón says he won’t enforce key parts of California’s Penal Code

As Donald Trump faces the potential conclusion of his presidency, he may also face criminal indictments for his unsavory busin...

Number 299, but who’s really counting?

From my perch as an appellate lawyer, I review a lot of trial court transcripts. I see quite a few mistakes — by both judges a...

Unfortunately for Judge Amy Coney Barrett, her qualifications are likely to attract less attention than they deserve during th...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Gavin Newsom held a press conference to announce issuance of Executive Order N-79-20 setting several broad g...

American history and American law are joined at the hip and must be viewed concurrently. Legal scholars insist that historical...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought the long-overlooked problems of the California bar exam into sharp relief. Put frankly, the ...

COVID-19 has not stopped judicial outreach programs. But it will change them. Judicial outreach will emerge stronger and bette...

As the court gavels-in the new term, let us take a look at the more significant cases that are already on its docket -- and th...

On Sept. 25, the Judicial Council of California approved an amendment to California Rule of Court 10.469 to make education on ...

Defining “medical necessity” in the context of medical and surgical benefits has already been a challenge for health care, and...

As summer turns to fall, movie and TV production is just beginning to gear up in the face of a pandemic that is showing little...

For more than two decades, California courts have recognized that one of the three ways an insurance agent broadens the genera...

Is a party’s loss of use of a leasehold or other interest in real property considered “property damage” within the meaning of ...

Kathrine James has written a book on preparing witnesses, “Harvesting Witnesses’ Stories: How to Get Your Client the Second-Be...

The headline to the Sept. 30 story, “Judge accuses lawyer of ‘gender incivility’,” inaccurately states that the judge in MJJ P...