President Donald Trump recently issued an executive order for the purpose of ensuring that discounts offered on prescription d...

A handful of notable, environmentally focused bills made it through both houses of the California Legislature and are now wait...

I have taught constitutional law for 40 years, but the events of the last several years have shown me a powerful lesson: The C...

A California superior court recently held that a provision in a Delaware corporation’s articles of incorporation requiring sto...

California is the latest state to adopt its own mini-Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Under the new regime, we will get a...

On Monday, the 9th Circuit issued an opinion deciding an issue of first impression on a significant insurance issue: “[W]hen, ...

Despite its passion and strength, does this concurring opinion belong here?

Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced an order banning residential evictions for most r...

A bite of an apple leads to a lawsuit.

Governor Newsom has 30 days to consider nearly 400 pieces of legislation. The total number of bills reaching the governor’s de...

When AB 5 was enacted, its principal target was the gig economy, but its impact has extended well beyond the workforce that dr...

Lawyers, this is your cue: It’s time to step up to the plate. Especially young lawyers and law students.

A surprise decision came from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week in which the court denied a petition by the gove...

On Aug. 31, the California Legislature passed a bill that would strengthen the ability to challenge discrimination in the jury...

What recent experiences with remote juries tell us about our distracted world

This article outlines a basic checklist designed for the convenience of counsel in furtherance of their meet and confer obliga...

This summer, amid headlines about national outrage and protest over the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others at t...

A new framework identifies the autonomous levels of AI legal reasoning and provides a much-needed means of comparing advances ...

What can you say about a ballot measure, ostensibly designed to enhance online data privacy, that is being opposed not only by...

For patent infringement defendants, successful assertion of the following defenses measurably increases their chances for reco...

Probate Code Section 21380 can succeed where the ‘Slayer Rule’ fails.

The bill will support housing development by allowing additional time for those with approved housing development projects to ...

Last month, amidst widespread social unrest and calls for racial justice and the dismantling of structural racism in communiti...

Legislators, equal pay advocates, and other stakeholders have identified unchecked biases, historic inequities, legal loophole...

Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court set to consider when police can use deadly force

California’s provisional license program promises more than it can deliver. The problems range from practical challenges to sy...

I couldn’t help but be reminded of Stella Liebeck’s “windfall” while reading Shih v. Starbucks Corp., decided last week by the...

Potentially impacting thousands of businesses, the California Legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1577, a bill that would con...

Off-the-clock claims are not exactly new to the field of wage and hour litigation, but remote work presents timekeeping challe...

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