Upon learning that my client and I were going to be part of the first post-pandemic jury trial in San Francisco, I was nervous...

Last week we learned that California Proposition 16 is behind in the polls, with 47% of likely voters inclined to vote no on t...

Numerous state and federal legislative efforts have been launched to provide relief to businesses through their insurance port...

I congratulate the 100 deserving attorneys recognized in the Sept. 16, 2020 supplement to the Daily Journal. I was sorry to se...

As a certified appellate specialist attorney, I’ve argued more than 30 appeals, including (now) arguing remotely by video. The...

On Oct. 5, the Los Angeles County Superior Court will resume jury trials in some civil matters.

Fintiv sets forth six factors for the PTAB to consider when determining whether to exercise its discretion under 35 U.S.C. Sec...

Will they remember Merrick Garland?

Presidential elections are always prime battlegrounds for partisan clashes on voting rules. This year, however, a global pand...

A bite of an apple leads to a lawsuit.

It is always worth considering appealing from a decision of the hearing department of the State Bar Court.

AB 2257 provides that the exemptions to AB 5 should be reviewed under the Borello worker classification standard, instead of D...

I previously commented that NFL fans were hypocritical in claiming to be offended by Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling which they be...

Attorney General Bill Barr encouraged federal prosecutors on a nationwide conference call this month to charge protesters with...

A group of scientists and veterans sued the DEA back in May, arguing that the DEA’s legal basis for keeping marijuana classifi...

Armando Herman appealed from a workplace violence restraining order imposed on him under Code of Civil Procedure Section 527.8...

Last week, the 9th Circuit adopted a new burden-shifting framework for summary adjudication of architectural barriers claims b...

Mallika speaks to a critical race theorist and feminist legal scholar about challenging homogeneity of the profession and acad...

Veteran practitioners will remember a time when getting a case to trial before the expiration of the five-year statute was a f...

On Thrusday, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1159, which was passed as the replacement to Newsom’s Executive Order N-62-2...

The U.S. Supreme Court has been asked to invalidate marijuana’s Schedule I status under the CSA on constitutional grounds.

It is no secret that in 1776, when the Founding Fathers wrote the preamble to the U.S. Constitution, “We the People” did not i...

Two decisions this year by the U.S. Supreme Court broaden trademark protection and are bound to increase trademark litigation ...

Prognostications are that legal micro-directives consisting of proactively distributed real-time snippets of the law will inev...

A guide to long-term leases, reassessments... and counting

All branches of California’s government enacted sweeping changes to the eviction process in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....

There has been a bevy of special purpose acquisition company initial public offerings in the last three years, resulting in fr...

Assembly Bill 1525 will protect covered financial entities under state law and offer cannabis businesses the option to directl...

But while Senate Bill 1146’s proposed changes to the Code of Civil Procedure are long-overdue and ultimately welcomed, SB 1146...

Until a recent appellate ruling, it appeared that, under California law, if a debtor made a transfer without receiving “reason...