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A recent appellate ruling shows that while there are a number of ways lawyers can prove their hours to a trier of fact, only o...

The California Supreme Court has endorsed the catalyst theory under which a plaintiff may receive attorney fees if he or she c...

The 9th Circuit recently set forth a new and clarifying standard for determining whether a party to a federal action has waive...

While some have been enjoying the return of baseball, albeit without fans in the stands, the Oakland A’s are moving forward w...

Identity theft crimes create a unique situation in cases that involve the booking exception to Miranda. During the booking pro...

A new artificial intelligence tool known as GPT-3 has been getting a lot of media attention and fueling excitement for what AI...

In the age of COVID-19, we are all armchair epidemiologists and virologists. These topics closely relate to a larger branch of...

You have heard the stories from around the nation recently: A woman called the police because she perceived “an African-Americ...

July was a tough month for the pipeline industry.

Proposition 51 makes “each defendant” jointly liable for all economic damages, but severally liable for noneconomic damages on...

The court this month applied the standard from one of the oldest communications devices — payphones — to largely uphold the Fe...

On Aug. 8, President Donald Trump issued an executive order and three presidential memoranda tied to fighting the financial ef...

I was disappointed when I read the Aug. 12 supplement, “Top 40 Under 40.”

Recently the State Bar of California approved recommendations by its Task Force on Access Through Innovation of Legal Services...

It took 70 years of advocacy for the 19th Amendment to pass, and it has taken a hundred more for the Equal Rights Amendment to...

Some conservatives, and now President Donald Trump, have advanced an argument with absolutely no legal foundation — that Harri...

In June 2018, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a sweeping decision known as Matter of A-B- in an attempt to eliminat...

Governor Gavin Newsom recently released the final version of his Water Resilience Portfolio, which identifies 142 state action...

The 9th Circuit recently rejected the government’s appeal of a district court decision denying its motion to dismiss a False C...

We all may like to grumble about the legal system from time to time, and may even about appellate judges themselves. But consi...

The appeal is still a win for plaintiffs, and it may influence even more suits. There are already vast numbers of cases. Most ...

Characters, ideas and the 9th Circuit

Danger facing political campaigns for using songs without permission

Tax worries about crypto have changed. Audits involving crypto have now ramped up in a big way. The IRS has crypto training no...

The Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) is the scientific agency that is responsible for administering th...

Unfortunately, the one hour of MCLE on competence that we are required to complete every three years does little to prepare us...

There has been an increasing call for enabling greater open access to court records of the U.S. justice system, which catches ...

Ruling in Judd v. Weinstein will help address sexual harassment in non-employment, professional contexts

Supposedly, women have equal employment opportunities within our nation’s armed forces. But to avail themselves of those oppor...